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Pride and Prejudice
Pride & Prejudice is our show on all things LGBTQIA+. Here we catch things missed by the mainstream, like queer history, loopholes in law and our everyday lives. This series is made by, of and for queer people, because representation matters. Tune in to stories never heard before, hosted by Sury...
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Meet this bisexual+ drag queen
In this episode of Pride & Prejudice, host Suryatapa Mukherjee spoke to Patruni Chidananda Sastry about bisexuality. Patruni is a bisexual, trans non-...
Trans men are exploring their masculinity through a podcast
MasculiniTea: kuch mardani gupshup is a podcast by trans men about masculinity. Trans masculine people of various backgrounds have gone on the podcast...
Union budget 2023 - what is in store for the trans community
In the Union Budget 2023, 6 crore rupees were allocated to the SMILE program of the Ministry of Social Justice and Equality. Under this program, the g...
Celebrating queer disabled love for Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine’s Day! In this episode of Pride and Prejudice, host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to Nu, founder of Revival Disability India, a collectiv...
Queering Language: Finding queerness in Assamese literature
This is part three of our miniseries, Queering Language, where we are looking at the relationship between queerness and language.
In this episod...
Queering Language: Locating queerness in Hindi literature through the ages
This is part two of a miniseries we are doing, Queering Language. In this series, we are looking at the relationship between queerness and language. I...
Queering Language- Ulti, a secret language of trans women created centuries ago
This is part one of a miniseries Queering Language in Pride and Prejudice, where we explore the relationship between queerness and language. For this...
Why these trans filmmakers started their own production studio
In the last episode of Pride and Prejudice, we explored how trans actors struggle to find opportunities in Bollywood. So, in this episode, host Suryat...
Bollywood wants trans stories but not trans actors
In recent years, with increasing queer acceptance, we have seen more sensitive portrayals of transgender people in films and TV shows. But in Sacred G...
The rainbow parents championing their queer kids and changing the minds of others
We have just had the International Coming Out day on October 11th. When queer people are out about our sexuality and gender, the first question we usu...
Housing discrimination: Finding a safe place to call home changes queer lives
It has been 3 years since the Supreme Court read down section 377 and 75 years since Indian independence. So, let’s see how free queer people are when...
How Queer Affirmative Counselling is transforming therapy for queer people
In this episode of Pride & Prejudice, we are looking at Queer Affirmative Counselling Practices or QACP. QACP goes beyond mere acceptance of queerness...
Gender reassignment surgery: inaccessible, expensive but life-saving
The World Health Organisation defines gender incongruence as a marked and persistent inconguence between an individual’s experienced gender and the as...
This queer-feminist theatre troupe is rewriting mythology and gender roles
Samuho is a queer-feminist theatre troupe based in Kolkata. After watching their play Atho Hidimba Kotha, Pride and Prejudice host Suryatapa Mukherjee...
Queerness is everywhere but science is biased
In this episode of Pride and Prejudice, hosts Menaka Rao and Suryatapa Mukherjee discuss how the certainty of male-female binary affects the way scien...
Badhaai Do Bonus: Screenwriter Suman Adhikary on creating a queer film
In this episode of Pride and Prejudice, host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to screenwriter Suman Adhikary who co-wrote Badhaai Do with Akshat Ghildial an...
Badhaai Do: Queers watch and react to Bollywood’s latest LGBT+ flick
Join us in this episode of Pride and Prejudice, as host Suryatapa Mukherjee watches Badhaai Do with Nikhil. Nikhil is doing their PhD in German Cinema...
How to make schools safe for queer, neurodivergent children
A class 10 student of a Greater Faridabad private school died by suicide on 24th February. In his suicide note he wrote that his school was responsibl...
Valentine’s Special: For this runaway couple, home is where the heart is
For this month of love, we are bringing you a two-part Valentine’s Special miniseries where host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to queer couples about the...
Valentine’s Special: The interreligious gay couple who came out in the 80s and witnessed queer history
For this month of love, we are bringing you a two-part Valentine’s Special miniseries where host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to queer couples about the...
Garima Greh: How the policies of the Centre’s new trans shelter impact residents
Garima Greh is the Central government’s pilot program for trans people. In collaboration with Community Based Organisations (CBOs), the Ministry of So...
How government-run safe home is giving trans people a second chance
Transgender persons are often on the run or are forced out of home. They are often unable to get stable formal jobs. The Garima Greh programme run by...
Tracing the queer roots of Qawwali
On this musical episode of Pride and Prejudice, reporter Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to musician Ruhan Ali. Despite their popularity online, Ruhan says...
From Axis Bank to Dabur’s bleach cream, how brands miss the mark on queer marketing
On the third anniversary of decriminalisation of same sex relations on 6 September, Axis Bank announced new policies for employees and customers from...
Transgender Reservation: Why trans people are not happy to be included under OBC
The Centre has moved a Cabinet note to include transgender persons in the central list of Other Backward Classes or OBCs. This is so that trans people...
Reading ‘Same Sex Love In India’ as historian Saleem Kidwai passes
Queer historian Saleem Kidwai passed away on 30th August, a week before the anniversary of Sec 377 being read down on 6th September. On this episode o...
From being a homeless teen to changing politics, a trans woman’s journey
In 1998, India had its first intersex MLA, Shabnam Bano. In 1999, we had our first transgender mayor, Kamla Jaan but she was ousted from her post by t...
Pride, a political protest or a community celebration
Queer sexualities have been decriminalised and Pride parades are ceremoniously covered by the news media. But can everyone really march with pride? In...
Queer Kashmiris are building community amidst conflict
Two years since the abrogation of article 370, the Indian government is making moves to hold elections in the union territories of J&K and Ladakh. But...
How HIV Intervention Is Failing LGBTQ Youth
We have come a long way since the AIDS epidemic of the 80’s and 90’s. Some of the groups that the HIV intervention programs focused on are men having...