Point of View is a 20-year-strong feminist media advocacy organization based in Mumbai, working to amplify women’s voices and remove barriers to voice, speech and expression.
Point of View is a 20-year-strong feminist media advocacy organization based in Mumbai, working to amplify women’s voices and remove barriers to voice, speech and expression. Starting from the premise that ideas change lives, Point of View exists to change ideas and norms around gender and sexuality, to create a world in which people of all genders and sexualities have rights and freedoms that are recognized, protected and exercised. In recent years, they have also expanded work in the area of feminist capacity building and rights assertion in digital arenas, integrating gender and sexuality with efforts to protect freedom of expression, sexual expression, internet democracy and protection from surveillance.
CLPR is a progressive organization founded to reimagine and reshape public interest lawyering in India.
CLPR is a progressive organization founded to reimagine and reshape public interest lawyering in India. Their work aims to develop a lawyering practice rooted in constitutional and human rights values, develop new approaches to strategic impact litigation that go beyond securing legal outcomes and instead employs rigorous empirical research to ensure substantive implementation and progressive social change, and develop a method of research-based public advocacy, pedagogy and communication that deepen constitutional and civic citizenship in India. Their work with trans communities has focused on three pressing issues: criminalization and resulting police and state violence, access to public services and securing legal gender recognition.
Founded in 2010, the Thai Transgender Alliance, or TGA, supports transgender and gender diverse people in Thailand to have a better quality of life and works to advance the human rights of transgender people through advocacy, movement strengthening and leadership development strategies.
Founded in 2010, the Thai Transgender Alliance, or TGA, supports transgender and gender diverse people in Thailand to have a better quality of life and works to advance the human rights of transgender people through advocacy, movement strengthening and leadership development strategies. They are currently leading a national effort to secure legal gender recognition for trans people in Thailand, as well as working to challenge military transcription requirements (in context where all male citizens obligated to serve). They have also created a wide variety of cultural change materials regarding gender, sexuality, discrimination, access to healthcare, military conscription, and are currently working to develop guidelines for media reporting and resources for parents of transgender and gender diverse young people.
PaKasipiti is a collective of LBT people striving to create safe spaces to develop the capacities of LBT people and promote social acceptance of gender and sexual diversity in Zimbabwe.
PaKasipiti is a collective of LBT people striving to create safe spaces to develop the capacities of LBT people and promote social acceptance of gender and sexual diversity in Zimbabwe. PaKasipiti translates to “at the Spring,” a place where LBT people can replenish their energies and thrive. They provide rights literacy, communication and advocacy trainings to LBT people as a basis for growing activism and raise the demands of LBT people in national and regional LGBTQ and feminist coalitions such as the Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and Coalition of African Lesbians. PaKasipiti hosts forums for LBT people and is developing an anti-violence support network. They are also interested in training ally stakeholders and civil society partners to build their capacity to speak out on SOGIE issues in various platforms.
Voice of the Voiceless (VOVO) is a feminist collective of LBT activists working to challenge attitudes, beliefs and norms that exclude lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LBTI) communities from having their voices heard and affirming their human rights.
Voice of the Voiceless (VOVO) is a feminist collective of LBT activists working to challenge attitudes, beliefs and norms that exclude lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LBTI) communities from having their voices heard and affirming their human rights. At the heart of their strategy is cultural change that starts with the community and builds out towards other marginalized communities, incorporating LBTI needs and experiences into feminist movement agendas and shifting the norms upon which larger societal structures are based. At the community level, they run Solidarity Circles, which are learning and support spaces for LBTI people to come together and hold dialogues on feminism, rights, access to justice and experiences of stigma and discrimination. They also host advocacy training workshops and what they call Creative Expression Sessions to provide artistic outlets for LBTI self-expression through forms of art such as painting and storytelling, as well as cross-movement intersectionality dialogues with groups representing a diversity of marginalized women, including sex workers, women with disabilities and others.
Trans*Coalition in the Post-Soviet Space is a regional informational resource platform that unites trans* persons and their allies and aims to protect human rights and improve the quality of life of transgender communities in the region.
Trans*Coalition in the Post-Soviet Space is a regional informational resource platform that unites trans* persons and their allies and aims to protect human rights and improve the quality of life of transgender communities in the region. Currently, the Coalition unites activists from 11 countries of the region with the intention to expand to all 15 countries. It is the first and only network by and for trans* activists in this region and has already contributed to the strengthening of the nascent trans* movement in the Former Soviet Union countries and to increasing visibility of trans* issues with an online presence via website, blog posts, and social media. Thanks to the effort of Trans*Coalition, many trans* persons have become more active in their own countries as well as in the regional activism and have significantly developed their skills and leadership capacity. Importantly, the coalition has helped introduce a new political trans* discourse in the region that is rights-based, feminist, and grounded in the principle of depathologization as opposed to the prior dominant discourse that was highly medicalized.
Labrys was formed in April 2004 by a group of young lesbian and bisexual women and transgender men with the mission to achieve equal rights, justice and non-discrimination for LGBT communities through empowering them, giving them voice and protecting their rights and freedoms.
Labrys was formed in April 2004 by a group of young lesbian and bisexual women and transgender men with the mission to achieve equal rights, justice and non-discrimination for LGBT communities through empowering them, giving them voice and protecting their rights and freedoms. Initially a community-based organization working exclusively on a grassroots level, over the course of 13 years of its existence, Labrys has developed into one of the anchor organizations in the LGBTQ movement of Central Asia. Labrys was the first organization in this sub-region to start practicing monitoring and documentation of human rights abuses and violations by state actors against LGBTQ people and reporting on them using national and international mechanisms. Its current work represents a balance between community mobilization and empowerment, cross-border and cross-sector networking and partnership, public education, and regional and national policy advocacy.
Kohl is a progressive, feminist journal on gender and sexuality based in Lebanon and covering the whole MENA region (Middle East, South West Asia, and North Africa).
Kohl is a progressive, feminist journal on gender and sexuality based in Lebanon and covering the whole MENA region (Middle East, South West Asia, and North Africa). It was formed in December 2014 as a queer feminist initiative and since then operates as an alternative feminist platform that sheds light on queer and feminist histories in the region aiming to challenge the hegemony of knowledge production and counter Orientalist and neocolonial narratives by ensuring that young feminist scholars and activists in the region play a central role in shaping knowledge about themselves. Kohl is a multilingual online journal published twice a year in English, French, and Arabic with different types of articles, including research, testimonies, opinion pieces, commentaries, reviews, literary pieces, conversations, interviews, and soon visual and audiovisual materials. The editorial team works closely with the contributors in the scopes of a mentorship system or a back and forth collaborative editing process with different contributors. In these two years of existence, Kohl has attracted a lot of international attention and has become a point of reference for many activists and scholars alike, from the region or globally, who are looking for knowledge on feminism, gender, and sexuality from MENA.
WE-Change is a community-based organisation committed to increasing the participation of lesbians, bisexual and transgender [LBT] women in social justice advocacy in Jamaica and the Caribbean.
WE-Change is a community-based organisation committed to increasing the participation of lesbians, bisexual and transgender [LBT] women in social justice advocacy in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Founded in 2015 by LBT women, WE-Change was formed out of a need to strengthen the women’s movement within the LGBT community given LGBT advocacy spaces in Jamaica have been largely controlled by, and focused on men. They’re committed to gender equality and the transformation of their communities through the empowerment of women.
Founded in 2011, Red Multicultural de Mujeres Trans de Guatemala (REDMMUTRANS) promotes the protection and recognition of the rights of trans women in Guatemala.
Founded in 2011, Red Multicultural de Mujeres Trans de Guatemala (REDMMUTRANS) promotes the protection and recognition of the rights of trans women in Guatemala. They are a multicultural network led by Mayan, Garifuna, Xincas and Mestizas trans women from seven trans led collectives in the regions of Petén, Alta Verapaz, Quiché, Escuintla, El progreso, Zacapa y Chimaltenango. Transgender women of indigenous descent in Guatemala experience particular high levels of violence and discrimination due to their gender and ethnicity. Through political advocacy, capacity-building and leadership development, RedMMUTRANS aims to self-empower trans women of different class, ethnic and racial backgrounds to defend themselves from systemic abuse. *** En Español *** Fundada en el 2011, la Red Multicultural de Mujeres Trans de Guatemala (REDMMUTRANS) promueve la protección y el reconocimiento de los derechos de las mujeres trans en Guatemala. Esta red es dirigida por mujeres Mayas, Garífunas, Xincas y Mestizas que son parte de siete colectivas trans en las regiones del Petén, Alta Verapaz, Quiché, Escuintla, El progreso, Zacapa y Chimaltenango. Las mujeres trans indígenas en Guatemala viven altos niveles de violencia y discriminación debido a su género y etnicidad. A través de la incidencia política, el desarrollo de capacidades y el desarrollo de liderazgo, RedMMUTRANS tiene como objetivo auto-empoderar a las mujeres trans de diferentes clases, etnias y razas para defenderse del abuso sistémico.
