"We go in withering July
To ply the hard incessant hoe;
Panting beneath the brazen sky
We sweat and grumble, but we go."
- Ruth Pitter, The Diehards
Pride
month has gone but the prejudice stays and requires intersectional
work. From within-community disparities, and phobias about various
identities that a person holds, to the lack of diversity and inclusion
practices at workplaces. These issues cannot be merely addressed for a
month and then swept under the rug until next year. It is starting to
become a pattern, a cool social media 'trend' for organizations with
changing logos to rainbow colors but leaves room for concrete
action.
Hence our responsibility as someone who is part of the community or an
ally is to ensure these debates are part of the day to day conversations
at work, at home, in our WhatsApp groups, and other spaces of
interaction. In times where the whole world has reimagined ways of
functioning and is on the path to find a 'new normal', it is imperative
that queer voices are louder than ever. We need to be thumping the beats
and ensure that our demands for equal rights do not take a back seat.
Here is our July in a nutshell.
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Queering Quarantine is back with Season 2 - With all your love and all those cute DMs we had to bring one of our most loved campaigns right back.
Watch the first two episodes here -
Nishtha Nishant, KSF Fellow in conversation with Daniel
Mendonca, Intersex Social Worker, and Gender Rights Activist, UN
Speaker, TEDx Speaker - click here to stream.
Sayed Raza Hussain Zaidi, KSF fellow in conversation with Sukhdeep
Singh, Founder and editor-in-chief Gaylaxy Magazine - click here to stream.
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To read the full stories click - Femina, Conde Nast Traveller, and BW Hotelier
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Follow up from the launch of India Workplace Equality Index in collaboration with Pride Circle and Stonewall UK
The index is a definitive benchmarking tool for employers to measure
their progress on lesbian, gay, bi, and trans inclusion in the
workplace. To know more visit: https://workplaceequalityindex.in/
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To partner with us and register for the index write to us on contact@workplaceequalityindex.in
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In
case you missed it, we collaborated with Vh1 India to do a fun chat
series with some of our queer artists, it was super magical and
fun.
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Mr. Keshav Suri discussed
the equality landscape throughout India with Parmesh Shahani, Head of
the Godrej India Culture Lab; Zainab Patel, Director Diversity
and Inclusion KPMG; Simran Singh, Executive Director Global
Change Management Nomura; and Leon D’Souza, Managing Director
and General Counsel and Head of Legal, Compliance & Controls (“LCC”)
for Nomura Powai & India. The panel was moderated by Fabrice C
Houdart, Managing Director for Global Equality Initiatives at Out
Leadership.
To watch the whole conversation: click here. |
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We
organized a training workshop with Bhaichung Bhutia Football
Schools in collaboration with ScoutMe. This was done to sensitize and
make folks aware of the importance of diversity and inclusion and at the
same time, this is our initiative to try and make sports spaces more
accessible to the LGBTQAI+ community.
If you are a sports enthusiast and identify as transgender* register for
our collaborative training and development program, this will help you
in playing your dream sport professionally. To know more about the
opportunity visit our website by clicking here. |
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Richa
Singh from the Keshav Suri Foundation was part of the Thomson Reuters
initiative on LGBT Inclusion at the Indian workplace &
the next steps. It was a fruitful discussion on awareness, policy,
sensitization workshops & training pertaining to the queer
community.
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Akshay
Tyagi from the Keshav Suri Foundation was invited to be part of LGBT
Bihar's Pride Month Internship's Weekend Webinar. Taking the narrative
of diversity and inclusion to another Indian state.
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While
we say goodbye for now, here is some positivity brought to you by It
Gets Better India with Mohul Sharma who identifies as a transman and
works at The LaLiT Suri Hospitality Group.
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Click to watch the episodes with - Bijuriya, Kamani Sutra and Karma Sutra.
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Here is something for you to read and educate yourself further...
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The Foundation has also taken the initiative of extending mental health support to people who need the same. Our onboard counselors are giving free counseling to help people cope up with the situation.
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