“I’m gender fluid and sometimes it’s confusing even to me.

“Are you a boy or a girl ? I’m an experience” - Janelle Monae.

"After a lifetime of being at war with my gender I've decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside
and out. All I ask is you please please try. I hope you can see me like I see myself now."
-Sam Smith

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imagination”.

Nature is neutral.
⁃ Adlai E. Stevenson

“I need feminism because people still ask what the victim was wearing”.

“I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself”
-Emma Watson

“I feel like we should stop calling feminists ‘feminists’ and just start calling people who aren’t
feminist ‘sexist’ .
You are either a normal person or a sexist
⁃ Maisie Williams

“ Cut the ending, revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl”
-Julie Anne Peters

“It’s time we stop splitting humans into pink and blue”

“I wasn’t ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different
ways to be beautiful.”
-Michael Cunningham

“There are no rules on how to be you”

 ⁃ don’t let the society change who you are
⁃ @UNITEUK_1

“Our resilience doesn’t mean that our lives are very easy”
⁃ Gwen Benaway

“There shouldn’t be any closet you need to come out of”.

Gender Speak is a gender-inclusive space that aims to deconstruct gender norms and build
narratives about the gender-equitable society. While the constitution of India ensures equal rights to
people irrespective of their gender, yet conditions of these rights in practice, a general lack of
awareness and social stigma related to gender identities are a hindrance to the holistic living of
people without varied gender identities. Young people have a massive potential to change this
narrative by becoming active agents of change towards solving the issues related to gender-based
violence. We at Gender Speak plan to throw light on the discourses around mental health issues
related to gender-based violence. We aim to break the vicious cycle of gender inequality and
progress towards a more gender-just world. We intend to engage the survivors of gender-based
violence as partners in our research and training programmes and give prominence to their voices,
opinions and narratives. Our long term goal is to contribute to realising the Sustainable
Development Goal-5 on gender equality to help build a more equitable and sustainable future for all.

Caption: Ever felt like a force is withholding you from being who you are or doing what you want.

Caption: While there is a legal structure to protect all citizens impartially and also protect them from
discrimination and inequality but how to protect oneself from the socially constructed structures
which limit one’s identity and their being to the expected norms and narratives of the society itself.

Caption: Every day we fight a battle, small or big, either with ourselves by supressing what we want,
need or desire or with others by rebelling for it. But why is the need for this struggle and who are we
fighting against.

Caption: We don’t need the feel to fight for a cause until that cause affects us personally, but does it
mean that the cause is not worth fighting for.

Caption: What is this closet one needs to come out of to be accepted for who they are? Should you
have to hide the real you to be accepted.