#Chitra Ramaswamy

[readingbibooks]

“Bisexuality may be the most invisible of the sexual identities, and invisibility is toxic in almost every way, but it has a single advantage. It means you can forge your own path, be whatever you want, love whoever you choose, exist in the shadows. For you, right now, bisexuality means freedom.”

- Chitra Ramaswamy, The Bi-ble: an anthology of personal essays and narratives about bisexuality

#chitra ramaswamy #the bi ble

[jewishbookworld]

Homelands: The History of a Friendship by Chitra Ramaswamy

Homelands: The History of a Friendship by Chitra Ramaswamy

This book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 1970s Britain to Indian immigrant parents, the other arrived from Nazi Germany in 1939, fleeing persecution. This book is about common ground. It is a story of migration, anti-Semitism, racism, family, belonging, grief and resilience. This book is about the past and the present. It is about the state we’re in now and the ways in which we…

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[reviewsphere]

Message from the Skies for 2019 Hogmanay!

Message from the Skies for 2019 Hogmanay! @FollowTheCow @edhogmanay @Edinburgh_CC @valmcdermid @edbookfest @LeithLibrary @BongoClub @EdTechCube @customhsleith @suzyGlass @UNESCO @Chitgrrl @Kapka_Kassabova @louisewelsh00 @stefsmith @DalrympleWill #hogmanay

SIX OF SCOTLAND’S ACCLAIMED WRITERS SHARE THEIR LOVE LETTERS TO EUROPE

CHITRA RAMASWAMY – KAPKA KASSABOVA – LOUISE WELSH – STEF SMITH – WILLIAM DALRYMPLE – WILLIAM LETFORD – COLLABORATE ON MESSAGE FROM THE SKIES, EDINBURGH’S HOGMANAY 19.

In a unique cross artform collaboration with ten of Scotland’s best artists, designers and musicians, six Scottish or Scotland based writers will pen a love…

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#Chitra Ramaswamy #Edinburgh Hogmanay 2019 #Edinburgh International Book Festival #Kapka Kassabova #Louise Welsh #Suzy Glass #William Dalrymple

[indizombie]

Training women to become taxi drivers in a country where more than half of the 5.5 million women who enter the workforce each year express serious concern for the safety of their commute doesn’t just benefit and empower the women who are driving. It makes the woman in the passenger seat safer, too.

Chitra Ramaswamy, 'In the driving seat: India's school for female taxi drivers', The Guardian

#Chitra Ramaswamy #The Guardian #taxi drivers #workforce participation #commute safety #economic empowerment

[readingbibooks]

“Bisexuality… is a permanent state of flux, a liminal space where you can be either/or, but you can also be neither/nor…

You have chosen (or, if you prefer, been chosen by) an unfixed, untitled, and shape-shifting identity. One that by definition resists categorisation. Instead it commands flexibility, restlessness, the endless possibility of change.”

- Chitra Ramaswamy, The Bi-ble: an anthology of personal essays and narratives about bisexuality

#chitra ramaswamy #the bi ble

[readingbibooks]

“You voice this sense of fitting in nowhere, of being a kind of sexual nomad, to no one. You barely even notice it yourself, because this, too, is the consequence of inhabiting an identity deemed untrustworthy, unsafe.”

- Chitra Ramaswamy, The Bi-ble: an anthology of personal essays and narratives about bisexuality

#chitra ramaswamy #the bi ble

[readingbibooks]

“When you do take the trouble to point out that you are, in fact, bisexual - that no matter whether you are with a man or a woman you will always have the potential to go either way - people look at you with scepticism, confusion, disbelief, or perhaps even envy. Their faces say this: you’re lying to yourself, it’s just a phase, you don’t know what you want, you’re letting the side down, you’re greedy, you don’t exist. But you do exist. Here you are.”

- Chitra Ramaswamy, The Bi-ble: an anthology of personal essays and narratives about bisexuality

#chitra ramaswamy #the bi ble

[readingbibooks]

“You are bisexual, but everyone who knows you assumes you are a lesbian and those who don’t assume you are straight.”

- Chitra Ramaswamy, The Bi-ble: an anthology of personal essays and narratives about bisexuality

#chitra ramaswamy #the bi ble