Flow of love and life
By Jia Mata
Jia Mata reviews software professional and queer community worker Souvik Ghosh’s debut fiction ‘Probaho’
Jia Mata is a queer freelance writer-translator, part-time soft skills trainer, and part-time activist. As a parent of a 16-year-old happy and well-adjusted gender fluid, panromantic, Ace child, Jia is proud to have made a safe enough space at home for the offspring to be completely and proudly themselves.
By Jia Mata
Jia Mata reviews software professional and queer community worker Souvik Ghosh’s debut fiction ‘Probaho’
By Jia Mata
Jia Mata reviews Jaydip Jana’s debut book ‘Amar Bhitor Bahire’, a new addition to contemporary queer literature in Bengali
By Susanta Pramanik, Jia Mata, Pawan Dhall
Excerpts from an analysis of the role played by community based organizations in working with queer people in India during the COVID-19 crisis and the challenges faced by the organizations
By Jia Mata
Jia Mata recommends some 'cha', 'chhobi' and 'charcha' at café Zoom Tea-O-Graphy, which is bubbling with possibilities in its third year
By Jia Mata, Lipikor
Jia Mata and Lipikor on portrayals of female desire in Bollywood films and songs
By Jia Mata
Jia Mata on social norms, toxicity in queer relationships, and what can be done to make things better
By Debjyoti Ghosh, Jia Mata, Pawan Dhall
Excerpts from the report of a recent webinar on transgender rights in South Asia organized by Partners for Law in Development and Varta Trust
By Jia Mata
Jia Mata on a new short film that does not tick all the gender boxes in a conventional way
By Jia Mata
Jia Mata was at café Crust & Core to start off our new column 'Thought for Food'
By Jia Mata
Jia Mata was at 'Varta’s' 5th birthday event focussed on queer perspectives on mental health
By Jia Mata, Sudha Jha, Nikita Kabra
Jia Mata, Nikita Kabra and Sudha Jha report on the recent homophobic violation of child rights in the Kamala Girls' High School incident involving the school's headmistress and the West...