Giti thadani biography

In fact, in many of these cosmogonies one does not find consorted deities of the opposite sex but dual deities of the same sex (both male and female) being referred to as twins (jami). Normally in a binary situation there would be heaven and earth, both static – earth below and heaven/sky above.

That binary dualism would be then reflected and repeated in binary gender roles as well, in a man/woman or father/mother dualism. However, when one has a dual masculine or feminine deities with a third entity, another dynamic develops: one could speak of an equilateral triangle in which all three sides are equal. 

This creates a complex cosmological philosophy that builds on dynamic movements and new forms of combining, rearranging and meeting and, in this process, creating interchangeable chains, constellations and patterns – akin somewhere to Bach’s “Art of the Fugue.” For me, his work reverberates and expresses such dynamic constellations and patterns.

These cosmologies (under the umbrella of Hinduism) continued for several thousands of years and were later transformed into temple performance art, sculpture, or graphics.

Giti thadani biography As a support group, often volunteers would be trained to handle calls from women from around the country. While the activist groupings have sought to fight for rights and visibility, informal networks of communication have served a different but equally important purpose. Wadia made films about subjects pertaining to gender and sexuality at a time when conversations about these issues did not have any social traction. Elections

This dynamic continuum was however destroyed with invasive monotheism wherein believers of different faith were denunciated as “idol worshipper” and deemed worthy only of either being killed or being a slave. 

Religion became an ideology based on a system of absolute belief and adherence instead of a fluid humane value system to navigate, communicate and re-explore different levels of life.

Today, this ideological and in fact totalitarian closure however echoes in other belief systems as well as a refusal to work out complex family, social and professional relationships. 

It can show itself in a superficial “god is dead” nihilism. Or in the rigidity and absoluteness of how victim status at times is claimed, including by individual LGBT* people, avoid of any empathy or even awareness of others suffering; those who are exiled, put into some concentration camp or are killed in the name of honor.

 

What does this mean for activist interventions on the different areas of faith? Is activism simply lobbying with established institutions to be open to reform?

Giti thadani biography in hindi Pride Month is an annual celebration for the LGBTQ community, with many prominent Asian and Asian Americans who have fought and used their platform to demand rights and equality around the world. The ethics of the question of married women who sought same-sex relationships was debated during these gatherings. Her emails became one of the first repositories of trans lives in India. It even resulted in a picnic at a beach close to Mumbai — the first such meeting of women who desired other women, in the city.

What does it mean that within certain “religious laws” homosexuality may get the death penalty? 

In pluralistic traditions of Hinduist cosmology there was a network of temple sites – some large, some under a tree, in a cave or as ones private temple. One could have a different private desired deity, a different family deity/ies and different state deities.

Thus no one kind of institution had a monopoly.