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Katie’s Pride: The handmade newsletter that changed my life

by Katie Wilson Katie’s Pride changed everything. It started out in July 2021 as a simple newsletter delivered to the local shops around Hitchin, and years later my whole life […]

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Colonialism Features Transphobia

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?

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