CORE TEAM
Raina Roy
Director
Rains is a trans activist. She is a founding member of Pratyay Gender Trust and has been working as an activist for twenty years. She also worked with Manas Bangla, briefly as a supervisor and she worked in Delhi with Azaad Foundation as a counsellor and Society Human Alliances and Needs; as a project manager for their Project with Sex workers. She has conducted several workshops and seminars about gender all over India. She has also organised Take Back the Night, Kolkata. She has directed several plays about LGBTQ workshops. She is one of the founders of Amra Odbhuth an art collective working towards creating more performance LGBTQ spaces.
Amrita Sarker
Field Director
Amrita is a trans dalit activist. She worked with Manas Bangla in Accounting. After that she worked as a board member (briefly) with PLUS. She has done a lot of work as a researcher and evaluator with the community.
Upasana A
Creative Director
Upasana (he/they) is a trans activist and artist. He is the Director of Amra Odbhuth Collective and has a decade’s experience in feminist organising.
Rajani Das
Field Coordinator
Rajani is a dalit trans activist. She has worked with the community for several years and is an incredibly efficient and hard worker. She works with Kashish as a peer educator and People Like Us (PLUS). She was also a sex worker and worked a launda dancer in North Bengal.
Ashmita Basu
Founder and Member
Ashmita is a trans activist who has worked with Pratyay Gender Trust and Kashish. Apart from being an activist she runs a small shop to support her family.
Suphee Biswas
Field Coordinator
Suphee is a trans activist, Suphee worked with trans organisation Manosh Bangla, and Pratyay Gender Trust. And is a founding member of Samabhabona.
MENTORS
Vvjayanti Vasanta Mogli: Trans activist, Telengana Hijra Samiti.
A. Revathi: Trans Activist, Writer of The Truth About Me : A Hijra Life Story and A Life in Trans Activism
Ani Dutta: Assistant Professor in the departments of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Iowa
Karthik Bittu Kondaiah: Trans Activist: Queer Dalit Manfesto: Faculty Member at Ashoka University.
Debanuj Dasgupta: Assistant Professor of Geography at University of Connecticut
Brinda Bose: Assistant Professor at Centre For English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
SOLIDARITY
Sayan Bhattacharya: Ph.D Scholar in Gender,Women and Sexuality Studies · University of MSkin Stories, Point Of View.
Indrani Kar: Manager, Corporate Communications at Globsyn Innoventures Pvt. Ltd.
Paul Boyce: Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Inteal Development (Anthropology, International Development), University of Sussex
Rohit K. Dasgupta: Lecturer at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University, London
Srila Roy: Associate Professor at Witwatersrand University , Johannesburg, Gauteng
Pritam Bhaumik: Guest Lecturer at South Calcutta Girls College
Shaswata Lahiri: Liberal Social Worker and Activist