by Maryam Din (they/she) TransActual’s Director for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement As a non-binary Muslim, the convergence of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) and Eid al-Fitr feels profoundly […]
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What is Pride?
I sit here with so much more knowledge about my culture and my religion. Hinduism has a wide and varied history and mythology full of queer figures. This is a religion of genderflipping deities and queer heroes. It is a religion which recognises that people aren’t always male or female; there is a ‘tritiya prakriti’, a third nature. Which then begs the question, where did all that pressure to conform to normative society come from? What caused my self-hatred and denial and hurt for all those years? Why did I have this idea that I couldn’t be Hindu and queer?