Transgender communities have existed nearly everywhere across the world, for centuries. The personal, emotional aspect of the transgender’s life has rarely been explored and is certainly not understood by the mainstream heterosexual society. To be a human with feelings just like anyone else, yet to be discarded/disowned by one’s own family or community is one of the hardest truths to accept. Rejected by their families, they pick up the pieces of life and try to live, albeit in a climate of oppression and often with no helping hand. Exploring their lives, their friendships and families, their interactions, fears, and habits reveals and confirms what they themselves say- ‘transgenders are people too.’
Kaaya: Beyond Gender is an image-text book published by CMAC. The book explores the lives of the transgender community in India.
Collaborators:
CMAC, Gtz, Sahara