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Gender Experiment Kit

Game | Experiment | Unlearning | Social Change | Public Installation

For designing for social change, I looked at United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities : Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.


 

But how do we make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable when our idea of inclusion is so narrow? 

 

  • We conveniently include the groups we are comfortable representing and ignore those who make us uncomfortable. 

  • In none of the SDGs was a mention of the queer community.The language used to describe gender inequalities is excluding people who do not fit into the gender binaries. 


 

In India, even though section 377 was abolished in 2018, it was just the bare minimum. Homophobia and transphobia is still prevalent in the country. There are no proper laws protecting the queer community nor the majority of the society is accepting.

Existing queer spaces

 

Some queer cafes, clubs, bars etc. have come up which has given a safe space to a lot of queer people. However, a lot of these spaces are dominated by upper caste hindu cisgender gay men and some require an expensive entry fee. These spaces are clearly not accessible to everyone. Transphobia is another major issue which is prevalent in the queer community. 

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