Pride and Prejudice

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Mar 31, 2023

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-binary drag artist based in Hyderabad. A 2019 study publishe...

58 mins

Mar 16, 2023

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 to talk about parenthood, fashion, workplace, sexuality and...

38 mins

Feb 28, 2023

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 government works for the transgender community in our country...

47 mins

Feb 14, 2023

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 collective and magazine for and by disabled queer folk. They speak ab...

61 mins

Jan 30, 2023

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 episode of Pride and Prejudice, host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to Nuzh...

40 mins

Jan 16, 2023

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. In this episode, host Suryatapa Mukherjee spoke to Chittajit...

48 mins

Dec 15, 2022

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 episode, host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to Raina, a trans a...

31 mins

Nov 29, 2022

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 Suryatapa Mukherjee spoke to trans filmmakers Varsha and Asawari,...

39 mins

Nov 16, 2022

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 Games, Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui, Gangubai Kathiawadi and the...

24 mins

Oct 16, 2022

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 usually get is, do our parents know? Sweekar: The Rainbow Paren...

47 mins