8 episodes
Health Sector and Queerness Rangeen Khidki Foundation
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Health Sector and Queerness is first and one of its kind Podcast Series by Rangeen Khidki Foundation.
Rangeen Khidki works with urban as well as rural youth and women on Gender & Sexuality, Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, mental health, education, and life skills. You can read more about us here.
https://rangeenkhidki.in/our-work/
This project is aimed at bringing forth first-hand encounters of Queer-Trans* people with healthcare through an intersectional lens and foster a deeper understanding of the queerphobic stigma that is heavily prevalent within our healthcare institutions.
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Navigating the Health Care System from within.
In this episode, we talk to a healthcare professional who has agreed to share their experience and story with us. Our guest for today is Aritra Chatterjee who is a Trans-feminine trainee in clinical psychology at the University of Calcutta. She has a vision of curing mental healthcare systems and unsettling complicit stakeholders. Resource: https://mhi.org.in/
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Navigating Healthcare as a Queer-Trans Couple.
In this episode, we learn about Mohit’s and their partner’s experience with getting diagnosed with syphilis and their navigation of general healthcare spaces queer-trans. We explore some of the ways in which healthcare practitioners are ill-equipped to help queer-trans patients and the negative impact this phenomenon holds.
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Mental Health and Queerness
In this episode, we talk to our guest Qasim about the challenges revolving around mental health issues in the LGBTQIA+ community. Qasim shares many insights on the problems he had faced and how he was able to overcome those.
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Experiencing Health Sector as a Trans Non-Binary person
In today’s episode, we have with us Krishanu who will talk about their experience of navigating the healthcare sector as a trans non-binary person from a medical as well as a social lens.
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Transness beyond Transitioning
In today’s episode, we talk to our guest Riju about navigating the healthcare system as a transwoman. She talks to us about how the narrative regarding trans-bodies is heteronormative and how we have to look beyond the issue of medical transitioning only, and into the social and mental aspect of it.
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Transitioning in Healthcare: Experience and Thoughts.
In this episode, we learn about Sasha’s experience with mental health along with general healthcare spaces through their transitioning and prior. We explore some of the ways in which healthcare practitioners are ill-equipped to help queer-trans patients and the negative impact this phenomenon holds.