Queer Chronicles by iHEAR Sangath

First-person narratives of queer persons' experiences with health and healthcare

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This website brings together stories of queer people in India accessing healthcare. It was collated by the iHEAR team through a project called iHEAR Queer Chronicles.  

ID: A close-up of a participant’s hand drawing a zine with the word “Power” written across it

iHEAR Queer Chronicles

This project aimed to collect the first-hand experiences of LGBTQIAP+ persons across India within health and healthcare settings. We worked with a group of LGBTQIAP+ participants helping them convert their experiences into compelling narratives. The idea was that these narratives could then be used by health professional educators as tools to teach about queer health in their classrooms.

Team Members

India Team

Gaurav Prateek, a queer person with short hair and a beard wearing a blue-bordered patterned sari with a red t-shirt
Gaurav Prateek
Assistant Coordinator and AudioVisual Mentor
iHEAR, Sangath Bhopal
Joshua George, a queer person in a rainbow beanie speaking at a podium
Joshua Mark George
Project Coordinator
iHEAR, Sangath Bhopal
Rajan Negi, a queer person with long hair a beard, and chunky silver jewellery in a patterned green and yellow sari, with a yellow blouse, speaking at a podium
Rajan Negi
Project Assistant and AudioVisual Mentor
iHEAR, Sangath Bhopal
Harikeerthan Raghuram, a bald-headed person with spectacles in a grey kurta covered in camels, smiles in the audience
Dr. Harikeerthan Raghuram
Associate Director (Health Equity)
iHEAR, Sangath
Satendra Singh, a short-haired person in a white shirt and a patterned blue tie
Dr. Satendra Singh
Director Professor of Physiology and Co-founder of the Health Humanities Group
UCMS, Delhi
Kirtana Nayak, a light-skinned person with long hair tied behind her, wearing a yellow silk sari and brown checkered blouse, with a yellow bindi on her forehead
Dr. Kirtana R Nayak
Head of the Medical Education Unit
Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
Aqsa Shaikh, a trans woman with spectacles in a beige hijab and a green kurta, speaking into a mic
Dr. Aqsa Shaikh
Professor of Community Medicine
Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Jamia Hamdard
Anant Bhan, a short-haired man with rectangular glasses and a grey patterned, short-sleeved shirt, speaking at a podium
Dr. Anant Bhan
PI
Sangath Bhopal
Khan Amir Maroof, a person with short, salt-and-pepper hair, a mustache, wearing a blue shirt and making a heart with his fingers
Dr. Khan Amir Maroof
Director Professor of Community Medicine and Coordinator, Medical Education Unit
UCMS Delhi

UChicago Team

Anu Hazra, a bearded and balding brown-skinned man, with some pigment loss on the skin of his hands, wearing a lilac patterned shirt, sitting pensively
Dr. Aniruddha Hazra
PI and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Sexually Transmitted Infection Services for Chicago Center of HIV Elimination
UChicago
Marshall Chin, an East Asian, white-haired man with clear, rectangular spectacles, in a blue suit and white shirt, smiling between two people who have trapped him between their arms
Dr. Marshall Chin
Richard Parrillo Family Distinguished Service Professor of Healthcare Ethics
UChicago
Scott Cook, an elderly Caucasian man with greying light brown hair, black-rimmed spectacles, and a blue full-sleeved shirt, smiling away from the camera
Dr. Scott Cook
Quality Improvement and Care Transformation Strategist within the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Co-Director of Robert Wood Johnson’s Advancing Health Equity: Leading Care, Payment, and Systems Transformation
UChicago

Mentors

Muskan Pradhan, a queer person in a black bandana tying back their long, curly hair, wearing an open beige shirt, with an inner black top, and sitting on the floor holding a golden Pommeranian
Muskan Pradhan
Zine-Making Mentor
Neurodivergent and queer psychotherapist, interdisciplinary artist, and gender and disability advocate
Priyanka Chakrabarty, a person with long curly hair and a flower in a hair, wearing a low-cut sleeveless white dress, smiling at the camera
Priyanka Chakrabarty
Reflective Writing Mentor
Neuroqueer writer and lawyer, and certified peer counsellor
Riddhi Dastidar, a short-haired, light-skinned person with a black bindi and shell earrings, in a sleeveless patterned white kurti
Riddhi Dastidar
Reflective Writing Mentor
Writer and journalist with a focus on disability justice, public health, gender, rights and development, climate and culture

Organizations Involved

Initiative for Health Equity, Advocacy and Research (iHEAR) at Sangath Bhopal

Kasturba Medical College, Manipal

University of Chicago

University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS), Delhi

Funded By

The Susan and Richard Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development