Health Sector and Queerness is first and one of its kind Podcast Series by Rangeen Khidki Foundation.
Rangeen Khidki works with urban as well as rural youth and women on Gender & Sexuality, Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, mental health, education, and life skills. You can read more about us here.
https://rangeenkhidki.in/our-work/
This project is aimed at bringing forth first-hand encounters of Queer-Trans* people with healthcare through an intersectional lens and foster a deeper understanding of the queerphobic stigma that is heavily prevalent within our healthcare institutions.
In this episode, we talk to a healthcare professional who has agreed to share their experience and story with us. Our guest for today is Aritra Chatterjee who is a Trans-feminine trainee in clinical psychology at the University of Calcutta. She has a vision of curing mental healthcare systems and unsettling complicit stakeholders. Resource: https://mhi.org.in/
18 Apr 2022
Navigating Healthcare as a Queer-Trans Couple.
In this episode, we learn about Mohit’s and their partner’s experience with getting diagnosed with syphilis and their navigation of general healthcare spaces queer-trans. We explore some of the ways in which healthcare practitioners are ill-equipped to help queer-trans patients and the negative impact this phenomenon holds.
13 Apr 2022
Mental Health and Queerness
In this episode, we talk to our guest Qasim about the challenges revolving around mental health issues in the LGBTQIA+ community. Qasim shares many insights on the problems he had faced and how he was able to overcome those.
4 Apr 2022
Experiencing Health Sector as a Trans Non-Binary person
In today’s episode, we have with us Krishanu who will talk about their experience of navigating the healthcare sector as a trans non-binary person from a medical as well as a social lens.
28 Mar 2022
Transness beyond Transitioning
In today’s episode, we talk to our guest Riju about navigating the healthcare system as a transwoman. She talks to us about how the narrative regarding trans-bodies is heteronormative and how we have to look beyond the issue of medical transitioning only, and into the social and mental aspect of it.
21 Mar 2022
Transitioning in Healthcare: Experience and Thoughts.
In this episode, we learn about Sasha’s experience with mental health along with general healthcare spaces through their transitioning and prior. We explore some of the ways in which healthcare practitioners are ill-equipped to help queer-trans patients and the negative impact this phenomenon holds.
14 Mar 2022
Reinforcement of Dysphoria by the Health Sector.
In this episode, we talk to our guest about how the real awareness and knowledge about the queer community comes not from books and theories, but from the community itself! With today is Prathyush who is a trans* man, and is currently working as a Marketing Manager for a market research company. He has completed his bachelor's in English from Hansraj College and further pursued his Master's in Fashion Management from NIFT Bangalore. He opens up about his experiences, how he approaches the healthcare system and provides extremely valuable insight into navigating life from his perspective.
6 Mar 2022
The lack of intersection of educational spaces with Queerness.
Our guest for this episode is Zayan (he/him) who is a Dalit trans man, a trained educator and currently working with a queer organisation. In this episode we talk with Zayan about the intersection of queerness with the healthcare sector in India, particularly, with the Medical Science curriculum and education space. He has been studying the field of education for the last 6 years and has written on platforms like The New Leam and Teacher Plus. He has experience in conducting education research and creating modules on gender and education.
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