aditya shankar
Shankar on coming out and Saathi. #OutAndProud #ProudToLove
www.saathi-iitb.org
Hi there,
As you all know, Saathi: www.saathi-iitb.org has completed two years of being active in its endeavor for supporting the LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer) Community on campus. In our short sojourn on campus, our saga has been of nspirational anecdotes and confident voices. We have made ourselves accessible as a resource group to the LGBTQ youth of the campus who have been living a life of disguise for the society around them is hetero-normative and oppressive. This being the general case, I'd also like to point out that there have been numerous cases of acceptance, love and friendships which never bothered of the sexual orientation of its individuals, my personal story being one of the latter.
Saathi is a voluntary body of IITB comprising of students, staff and faculty of the campus, working for the cause of diversity. We hitherto, work without any direct funding (but certainly with magnanimous support) and the events are generally organised by the pooled in funds by the members of saathi. We do not intend to be a body with an agenda or conveners or secretaries, we intend to be a mindset, a wind of change, a conversation, Love!