Rainbow Lit Awards Reclaims Space For Queer Community Through Literature And Journalism

The Rainbow Awards for Literature and Festival on Thursday launched its first edition opening entries from May 19 to바카라 웹사이트July 18, 2023. The award function will be held during the Rainbow Lit Fest – Queer & Inclusive on December 9 and December 10 in Delhi.

The purpose of the awards is to recognize honest, compelling, and unadulterated storytelling around LGBTQIA+ lives by Indian queer and cishet writers. It further pushes to create a genre that builds awareness across society as well as provides the queer community with a sense of belonging.바카라 웹사이트

The jury this year comprises author-activist Parmesh Shahani, senior journalist Adrija Bose,바카라 웹사이트writer and translator Anish Gawande,바카라 웹사이트art-historian, author and curator Dr바카라 웹사이트Alka Pande,바카라 웹사이트actor, artist and writer Jyotsna Siddharth,바카라 웹사이트transgender rights activist Kalki Subramaniam,바카라 웹사이트author Parvati Sharma,바카라 웹사이트journalist, writer and translator Poonam Saxena,바카라 웹사이트and author-researcher Sindhu Rajasekaran. Queer rights activist, lawyer, and bioethicist Rohin Bhatt will act as coordinator of the awards.

Speaking about the Awards, the Founder, Sharif D Rangnekar said,바카라 웹사이트“Queer life has been erased from our history for far too long. It is only over the past few decades that some folks have stepped up and written freely. It is essential that we build on the momentum set post the reading down of Section 377 so that we can claim and reclaim our space through literature and journalism which becomes part of history and the now.”