Sayan Bhattacharya

Sayan Bhattacharya is a queer activist and journalist from West Bengal, India. He has completed an M.Phil in Women’s Studies from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. For his Ph.D., he would like to understand how transgender people are accessing citizenship across caste and class specificities in India and how these negotiations are disrupting and/or getting folded within normative frameworks of the nation state. Sayan volunteers for a number of groups in Bengal working on gender, sexuality, and disability rights. Recently, he co-organized a 3 day Disability and Gender Rights workshop as a platform to explore the possibilities of alliance building between Bengal's transgender movements and disability movements. He has organized queer reading circles, film screenings, and several meetings between the media and queer communities to address the sensationalist coverage of LGBTIQ movements in the media.