A small step in a long journey : a memoir / Akkai Padmashali ; as told to Gowri Vijayakumar.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Zubaan Books, 2022.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 228 pages ; 20 cmISBN: - 9789390514793 (pbk.)
- 306.768092 23 PAD
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Includes bibliographical references.
Preface Beyond Victimhood --
1. Growing Up --
2. Finding Community --
3. Culture and Tradition --
4. Becoming an Activist --
5. National Advocacy --
6. Transformations --
7. Love, Marriage, and Patriarchy --
8. Traveling the World --
9. Feminism and Politics --
Afterword: The Actor and the Spectator --
Song Lyrics.
More than just an autobiography or memoir, this is a powerful and passionate account of one woman’s battle to claim her identity and place in society. In A Small Step in a Long Journey, Akkai Padmashali, a trans rights activist and campaigner, thinker, writer, poet, and actor, throws out a challenge to society, demanding not sympathy or pity but acceptance, recognition, and respect. Brutally honest and self-critical, Akkai’s writing is a political act in which she lays bare the hurt, humiliation, confusion, insult, love, solidarity, and joy that went into making her who she is today.
Time and again Akkai asserts that her story is not just her story. What we call gender and sexuality, she says, ‘is a journey we all travel’, one that connects our personal and political lives, and one that helps us to face difficult, disturbing questions about prejudice and privilege.
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