Our Mission & Vision

Himachal Pradesh, as a region is not familiar with the Queer or LGBTQIA+ vocabulary, which is very much in use in urban cities. Our work uses regional context while creating awareness about the needs of our community, their rights and different ways to engage with Youth to create a more sensitive world. We work with laws and Acts, already in place to protect the rights of our community members. While working with various Government and Non-Government institutions, establishments, collectives and spaces, we try to identify the  different ways through which a person staying in rural Himachal Pradesh gets an equal opportunity to access discourses, laws and legalities, mental healthcare support and any other aid(financial, legal, shelter, etc.)

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Our work is primarily in very rural and non-urban spaces in Himachal Pradesh. Hence, our ideas and work concerning Queerness try to find ways to address issues that align with such socio-cultural and geographical contexts.

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We feel the need to address and work in a very holistic manner which addresses injustice, discrimination, violence and abuse faced by any person who does not fit into the two societal boxes of Gender in every aspect of their life. We are using this phrase here and not LGBTQIA+ since the entire Queer vocabulary does not exist in the spaces where we work.  Intersectional feminism is at the core of our work and ethics, which we firmly believe in, as an organisation.

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As an organisation, having created a voice around Queerness in a space where there was no dialogue before, we are confident about the future of present and coming generation Queer-Trans* Himachalis and how we can support this dialogue to create safe spaces for them, and with them.