Category: Elefant Stories
You don’t Belong here! : The politics of Gendered Spaces
Posted on January 24, 2018
Gender Identity, Gendered Spaces, Genderless toilets, Inclusive spaces, Transgender Rights
You don’t belong here! In homes, schools and workplaces, transgender people are often separated in ways that sustain gender stratification by reducing their access to socially valued knowledge. Knowledge and authority have been the dominant field of both men and women for a long time. While I agree that throughout history women have been oppressed…
TranSolitude
Posted on October 13, 2017
Shadowing his eyelids, Opened he a new chapter in her life. Loaning his sister’s dress, Into the world of masks, he walked as herself with pride. Teased and tortured at every turn, Up she held her bearded chin. Dorned in disgrace and rejection she waited inside him; Eager to be free one day.
Chennai Floods and Transgender people
Posted on October 13, 2017
The Chennai floods, two years ago – in 2015 – was a disaster of unprecedented intensity. The State machinery failed to provide citizens the necessary support. At this juncture with the temporary dysfunction of the State, does the word “Citizen” still hold complete meaning? People got down to perform the tasks traditionally discharged by the…
MANASIJAR The Oppressed
Posted on October 13, 2017
Freed from the binary of boy and girl, gender identity is a shifting landscape. While gender and sexuality are often used interchangeably, these are distinctively different. While gender identity refers to a person’s personal and internal identification with being male, female, both or neither. Sexuality, on the other hand, refers to a person’s attraction to…
Introducing, “The TRANSGENDER Elefant”
Posted on October 13, 2017
“Transgender people come from all walks of life. We are dads and moms, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. We are your coworkers and your neighbors. We are 7-year-old children and 70-year-old grandparents. We are a diverse community, representing all racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as faith backgrounds.” This is how Human Rights Campaign(HRC),…
An Elefant Analysis of “The Blind Men and the Elephant”
Posted on October 12, 2017
Elefant Stories / The CASTE Elefant / The DISABLED Elefant / The MIGRANT Elefant / The RACIAL Elefant / The TRANSGENDER Elefant
“It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: “God bless me! but the…
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