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Title: Indian Video Activist Puts Transgender in Focus
Post by: Shana A on February 20, 2011, 08:17:18 AM
Indian Video Activist Puts Transgender in Focus

By Paromita Pain
WeNews correspondent
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Kalki Subramaniam's video project for transgender women in India began with her own scholarship in video making. Now she's assisting other transgender women to shoot their own video as a way of breaking out of poverty and abuse.

http://www.womensenews.org/story/lesbian-and-transgender/110218/indian-video-activist-puts-transgender-in-focus (http://www.womensenews.org/story/lesbian-and-transgender/110218/indian-video-activist-puts-transgender-in-focus)

CHENNAI, India (WOMENSENEWS)--About six months ago Kalki Subramaniam asked herself a question.

"What if India's transgender women created their own media?"