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Meet the face of India's transgender community Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi. She talks about being a transgender in India.
Meet the face of India’s transgender community, Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi. She talks about being a transgender in India.
In this video, meet Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi, who is a transgender activist, actress and a Bharatnatyam Dancer. She is the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific in UN in 2008.
In this interview, she talks about her journey from a boy born in a conservative Brahmin family to becoming the face of the transgender community in India. But the biggest heroes are his parents who stood by her choices and accepted her sexuality, which is rare in the Indian society. She has also written her autobiography, Me HIjra, Me Lakshmi. Watch her interview here. In a parallel track, it also gives us a glimpse of the struggles and strife of the LGBT community. Have a look.
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Ms. Kulkarni, please don’t apologise ‘IF’ you think you hurt women. Apologise because you got your facts wrong. Apologise for making sexual harassment a casual joke.
If Sonali Kulkarni’s speech on most modern Indian women being lazy left me shocked and enraged, her apology post left me deeply saddened.
I’d shared my thoughts on her problematic speech in an earlier article. So, I’ll share why I felt Kulkarni’s apology post was more damaging than her speech.
If her speech made her an overnight hero among MRAs, sexists, and people who were awed by her dramatic words, then her apology post made her a legendary saint.
There are many mountains I need to climb just to be, just to live my life, just to have my say... because they are mountains you've built to oppress women.
Trigger Warning: This deals with various kinds of violence against women including rape, and may be triggering for survivors.
I haven’t climbed a literal mountain yet Was busy with the metaphorical ones – born a woman Fighting for the air that should have come free And I am one of the privileged ones, I realize that
Yet, if I get passionate, just like you do I will pay for it – with burden, shame, – and possibly a life to carry So, my mountains are the laws you overturn My mountains are the empty shelves where there should have been pills
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