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Reaching Out to Sexually Marginalised Women: Sahayatrika in Kerala
This paper deals with the context of formation of an NGO in 2003 called Sahayatrika to reach out to women with non-normative desire. Sahayatrika is a Malayalam word meaning fellow-traveller. The formation of the organisation took place in the wake of the news of suicide pacts among lesbian women fro...
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Explorations, ISS e-journal,
2018
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| Acceso en liña: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/007811.pdf |
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| 245 | |a Reaching Out to Sexually Marginalised Women: Sahayatrika in Kerala | ||
| 260 | |b Explorations, ISS e-journal, |c 2018 | ||
| 300 | |a pp. 86-106 |b Vol. 2 (1), April 2018, | ||
| 520 | |a This paper deals with the context of formation of an NGO in 2003 called Sahayatrika to reach out to women with non-normative desire. Sahayatrika is a Malayalam word meaning fellow-traveller. The formation of the organisation took place in the wake of the news of suicide pacts among lesbian women from marginalised backgrounds. By mapping out the travails of building this organisation and the strategies adopted by the organisers to reach out to these invisible minorities, this paper also tries to reflect how social marginality mediates sexual marginality in contemporary Kerala; it does so through the stories of female born sexual minorities, who found themselves trapped under the hetero-patriarchal norms which does not provide a language to express their sufferings. Sahayatrika provided a platform for this expression and enabled these women to develop a sense of belonging to a collective, which is simultaneously imagined as home away from the oppressive natal home. Drawing on Aneeta Rajendran’s idea on ‘space’ to understand the epistolary narratives of these women, the paper observes that even though the domestic space is a repressive space for these women, which no longer provides the feeling of belongingness, yet it enables the emergence of invisible lesbian subjectivities. | ||
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