Introduction

Vashanabi Sunda is an Indian filmmaker and her production company is called Lime Soda Films. Her most recent series is called Desphoric about why women are choosing to identify as trans, not just in India but across the world. We spoke about transgenderism in India, the social role of the hijra traditionally and the importance of homophobia in understanding this phenomenon. As always you can find the extended version of this episode at mysubstack,. LouisePerry.substack.com as well as bonus episodes and the MMM chat community. Enjoy.