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Title: Gazal Dhaliwal: Being a woman
Post by: cindy16 on March 25, 2015, 10:58:34 AM
Not sure if this is the most appropriate forum, but here goes...

Gazal Dhaliwal, Indian trans woman and screenwriter, speaks about what it means to be a woman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpCpVjuQ1lc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpCpVjuQ1lc)
Title: Re: Gazal Dhaliwal: Being a woman
Post by: suzifrommd on March 25, 2015, 05:26:04 PM
Wow. Just wow. I'm glad she's a writer. Someone who can so accurately capture the essence of transition, would be wasted on any other profession.
Title: Re: Gazal Dhaliwal: Being a woman
Post by: rachel89 on March 25, 2015, 08:02:05 PM
I felt a little better for the first time this week.
Title: Re: Gazal Dhaliwal: Being a woman
Post by: cindy16 on March 25, 2015, 10:28:40 PM
Quote from: rachel89 on March 25, 2015, 08:02:05 PM
I felt a little better for the first time this week.

Glad it helped.

Quote from: suzifrommd on March 25, 2015, 05:26:04 PM
Wow. Just wow. I'm glad she's a writer. Someone who can so accurately capture the essence of transition, would be wasted on any other profession.

Suzi, I agree. But before her transition, she was an engineer working in IT, like so many other 'good Indian boys'.
You can also see another talk by her here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUDiHJjgZg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUDiHJjgZg)
Title: Re: Gazal Dhaliwal: Being a woman
Post by: ImagineKate on March 27, 2015, 12:44:22 PM
She's trans? I wouldn't know.

Glad to see indian women represented. :)

<--Proud member of the diaspora.
Title: Re: Gazal Dhaliwal: Being a woman
Post by: cindy16 on March 29, 2015, 02:41:54 PM
Kate, I agree that she doesn't 'look trans' at all, and that's something she talks about in the second video ("Telling the right story") as well.
Title: Re: Gazal Dhaliwal: Being a woman
Post by: i_are_kim on March 29, 2015, 11:13:01 PM
Quote from: cindy16 on March 25, 2015, 10:28:40 PM

she was an engineer working in IT, like so many other 'good Indian boys'.


lol...that's me, but not in IT sector though