When we talk of privilege we talk of caste. The privilege and prejudice duality exists within countless countries, but in India it is accepted as tra ...
Bi erasure: Catch 22 in the Queer community
Bisexuality refers to a sexual orientation in which a person is attracted to people of more than one gender. However, despite increasing awareness an ...
Intimacy at the intersections of Caste and Queerness
There is a unique predicament that Indian Queer folks experience. Indian Queer folks need to look at queerness at the intersections of caste. This in ...
All for one and one for all: Inclusive language in the workplace
The words we use every day have tremendous power, whether it is referring to people, places, things, ideas or concepts. We use words every day to com ...
Two-spirit
Two-spirit (also two spirit, 2S or, occasionally, two spirited) is a modern, pan-Indian, umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to des ...
Queer
Usually represents queer or questioning. Queer is considered an umbrella term for anyone who is non-cisgender or heterosexual. Queer may be used by p ...
Pangender
Pangender is a gender identity that involves experiencing many different gender identities simultaneously or one at a time with differing degrees. A ...
Gray-asexual
Someone who occasionally experiences sexual attraction but usually does not; it covers a kind of gray space between asexuality and Allosexuality (Sex ...
Gender Queer
People whose gender identity does not fit within the male/female binary.
Gender Non-conforming
One who expresses gender outside traditional norms associated with masculinity or femininity. Not all gender-nonconforming people are transgender, an ...
Gender Fluid
A term used by people whose identity shifts or fluctuates. Sometimes these individuals may identify or express themselves as more masculine on some d ...
Gender Dysphoria
Clinically significant distress caused when a person’s assigned birth gender is not the same as the one with which they identify. This is Gender Dysp ...
Demisexual
Demi Sexual is used to describe someone who feels sexual attraction only to people with whom they have an emotional bond often considered to be on th ...
Cisgender
Someone whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
Bisexual
This word “bisexual” was first used by the German psychologist Richard Von Krafft-Ebing while referring to the gender of persons whom he believed hav ...
Bigender
Before its use in the LGBQT community, bigender was an early 20th-century biological term for plants that possess both male and female reproductive p ...
Assigned sex
The sex that is assigned to an infant at birth based on the child’s visible sex organs, including genitalia and other physical characteristics. Often ...
Androgyny
The adjective, Androgynous, dates from the early 17th century and is derived from the older French and English term androgyne. Androgyny is the posse ...
Ally
A person who does not identify as LGBTQ but stands with and advocates for LGBTQ people and their rights.
Agender
Agender is a term which can be literally translated as without gender. It can be seen either as a nonbinary gender identity or as a statement of not ...
Chris Evans
"The goal is that we can get to a point where it is the norm, and that this doesn’t have to be some uncharted waters, that eventually this is just th ...