Gender and Sexuality

Queering the Law: Making Tamil Nadu’s Laws LGBTIA+ Inclusive

This report, available in Tamil and English, carries out a comprehensive analysis of Tamil Nadu’s state laws and policies, and identifies measures to make them queer inclusive.

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The Transgender Persons Amendment Act, 2026: What can State Governments Do?

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026: What can State Governments Do?

How can State Governments use their executive powers to recognise and protect transgender rights in their States in light of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026.

Reflections

Roll Sound, Lights, Camera, Female Gaze

Poetry, Politics and the Female Gaze

Legally Hers

 Legally Hers Podcast Poster

Recommendations on the Draft Delhi Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Rules, 2025

Queering the Law

Beyond Supriyo

Queering the Law

Beyond Supriyo

Poster for an event titled "QUEERING THE LAW: BEYOND SUPRIYO" organized by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and Keshav Suri Foundation. The event is scheduled for Saturday, July 12, from 10 AM to 3 PM at Crystal Ballroom, The Lalit New Delhi. The poster highlights that the event will focus on legal and policy solutions for challenges faced by the queer community. The design includes colorful illustrations: a family card with a same-sex couple and child, people enjoying a meal together, a black cat playing with yarn, two hands reaching across a divide, and various symbolic graphics. The poster is bordered by vibrant artwork in red, yellow, purple, blue, and green hues.

Vidhi Book Adda | We Are Not The Others: Reflections of a Transgender Artivist

Gender Fluidity and Inheritance

Addressing the Gaps in Hindu Succession Laws

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Bulbbul

A Horror Story or a Fairy-tale?

How not to ‘normalise’ queer persons

 File photo of trans persons at a blood donation camp in Chennai.

The under-representation of women in the judiciary

Of queerness and Dhamma

Institutional Privacy, Personal Autonomy, and the Conundrum of Restitution as a Remedy

Why marriage laws should replace ‘husband,’ ‘wife,’ with ‘spouse’

 Members of queer community in delhi celebrating SC verdict decriminalizing consexual gay sex

When women did not want a quota

The Law Through the Lens of Hard Data | Do courts grant women their inheritance claims?

Do courts grant women their inheritance claims?

Poster for a vidhi lecture event hosted at the India International Centre on the topic, "Do courts grant women their inheritance claims?" The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Dr. Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics & Environment. The event will be moderated by Alok Prasanna Kumar (co-founder, vidhi). The event will also host a Q&A with the speaker and the co-author, Shruthi Naik.

The Intersection of Caste, Gender, and Sexuality through the Lens of ‘Geeli Pucchi’

A short film part of the anthology series - Ajeeb Dastaans

Poster from the movie Ajeeb Dastaans

The Model Code on Indian Family Law

A gender-just and queer inclusive family law Code

The Model Code on Indian Family Law

Law that shackles and liberates

A review of the Kaathal: The Core

Model Code on Indian Family Law, 2023

The Model Code, along with the accompanying commentary, provides the first glimpse of what a comprehensive, gender-just, and inclusive family law regime in modern India could look like.