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About two years ago, when Shanthi Sonu was on her way for an art project at a Bengaluru government school, she suddenly got jittery about how the children would react to her presence. “Drop me off anywhere,” she told Poornima Sukumar, the Bengaluru-based artist she was riding with.
A transgender woman who once paid for her decision to live as a woman by sleeping on pavements, Sonu says children are often the worst critics a transgender person can encounter. Still, she went to the school. In between brushstrokes that came together to form trees, rainbows and flowers, Sonu was
A transgender woman who once paid for her decision to live as a woman by sleeping on pavements, Sonu says children are often the worst critics a transgender person can encounter. Still, she went to the school. In between brushstrokes that came together to form trees, rainbows and flowers, Sonu was
