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| Written by Chay Magazine |
| Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:57 |
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The following is a list of resources that we believe will be useful to readers here. We do not necessarily endorse these organizations, in all or in part. We just want you to know they are out there. If you have suggestions, please email us at CHAYMAGAZINE at GMAIL dot COM .
RESOURCESAssociation for Women's Rights in Development Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Women Living Under Muslim Laws
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Dear Editors,
I have long been wondering about how to work with your publication. I am a research consultant on feminist ethnographic studies with Shirkat Gah, a feminist organisation, an ngo, a resource centre, etc. We started some work here on queer studies or transgendered studies beginning with workshops with the staff (50 people in Lahore office) exploring stereotypes of masculinity and femininty and how we relate to people who deviate from that, I have spoken at seminars and at consultative workshops on "masculinised women" both hetero and homo varieties thereof, on trans communities and sex workers finding representation in the national census, and a friend and colleague has also visually documented the Trans people and sex workers, for instance, in religious rituals like Ashura.
Although I worked as a journalist for a number of years, I can no longer fit expression into a thousand word declamation. So how to share work with you?
Samina
feminist organisation ,
Dear editors,
I am Umayr, a graduate student of Pakistani origin currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I am also the outreach coordinator of Trikone Atlanta, which a social and support group for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people of South Asian heritage and their friends in the Southeastern United States.
We admire and appreciate the wonderful work that your magazine is doing in opening up the space to discuss sex and sexuality in Pakistan, in particular, and South Asia, in general. We hope to contribute to the magazine's development and growth.
We would also request you to add the Trikone Atlanta website URL (http://trikoneatlanta.org/) to your Resources web page. Through your magazine, we hope to reach out to queer people of South Asian origin, or their allies, who may be resident of or visiting the state of Georgia. You may also find the Resource web page on our website interesting since it contains links to other South Asian LGBT group in the US.
Thank you for your time. Again, we enthusiastically support your efforts in creating awareness about sex and sexuality.
Regards,
Umayr
Outreach coordinator
Trikone Atlanta
http://trikoneatlanta.org/
Greetings from Chennai, and solidarity from Orinam.net, a site on LGBT issues for our communities, media, friends and family. Please keep up the great work: we'd love to be able to link to the chaymagazine website and its contents!
samina,
i'm intrigued, espcially the bit about trans ppl and sex workers and the ashura. i'd love to know more, if you could let me know how i could get in touch with some of your work/research and the organization you work with, a website?
Hey,
Love your magazine. I was trying to find a place to email you but i couldnt see a "contact us" link anywhere.
Can you please bold the font of your website. Just a little bold would do :)
(BBC site has a great bold font. If you need a sample).
Thanks a lot ! :)
Hasan