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Title: ‘Today, I’m a woman who battles the lust of my former gender daily’
Post by: Shana A on August 06, 2011, 07:37:08 AM
Post by: Shana A on August 06, 2011, 07:37:08 AM
'Today, I'm a woman who battles the lust of my former gender daily'
Afreen Chaudhary is 21. She is a poet and writer based in Bengaluru
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=hub1308711personal.asp (http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=hub1308711personal.asp)
EXPERIENCING A CITY through the perspective of two different genders could be a psychedelic trip. Especially if the genders in question inhabit one body. That doesn't make sense, does it? In my world, it does. In my world, too many bizarre things work.
I am a woman — a transgender woman who loves to venture out at odd hours at nights with a cigarette hanging off my lips and hands carelessly flitting my friend's hair as we look for a chai stall. I have learnt that I love to walk flamboyantly, bob my head to some music only I can hear as I get my groove on (yes, only mine). My friend cautions, "Baby, you are a woman. Don't attract attention. It could be unsafe."
Afreen Chaudhary is 21. She is a poet and writer based in Bengaluru
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=hub1308711personal.asp (http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=hub1308711personal.asp)
EXPERIENCING A CITY through the perspective of two different genders could be a psychedelic trip. Especially if the genders in question inhabit one body. That doesn't make sense, does it? In my world, it does. In my world, too many bizarre things work.
I am a woman — a transgender woman who loves to venture out at odd hours at nights with a cigarette hanging off my lips and hands carelessly flitting my friend's hair as we look for a chai stall. I have learnt that I love to walk flamboyantly, bob my head to some music only I can hear as I get my groove on (yes, only mine). My friend cautions, "Baby, you are a woman. Don't attract attention. It could be unsafe."