Gender

In a powerful experiment, a collaborative initiative in Karnataka brought together sex workers, gender and sexual minorities, Dalit, Muslim, and women with disability to reclaim solidarity through shared stories and collective action.

It is imperative that both men and women speak up and raise their voices against gender-based violence.

A proof of identification is necessary for all individuals. But asking trangender persons to undergo medical certification as proof of existence violates their right to privacy.

“The main achievement of Safecity is that we managed to make the violence visible [...]. The second achievement is that we made the data available, so that individuals and communities can use them - to advocate for their own safety, to demand for a better infrastructure or better institutional accountability.”

This article follows the journey of transgender individuals who have made Bangalore their home, migrating from the hinterland, and a neighbouring state, and how they have come into their own agency. Their struggle to be heard, and how they have integrated the voices of others and now made significant space for the transgenders in South India, negotiating and working with the authorities and society for their entitlements, gives a picture of the course of their path within the larger queer body politics and intersection of their work with other movements like that of sex workers and the disabled.