Swarupa is a human rights lawyer and special council at the High Court of Tripura. She teaches Contemporary Transgender and Non-Binary Discourse at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru and also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru.
Why pronoun sensitivity is a serious business?
The recently released Season 3 of The Family Man, a widely watched mainstream series, yet again offers its signature mix of espionage, geopolitical intrigue, and middle-class satire. However, just a few minutes into the first episode, it slips into a deeply problematic ‘comedic’ moment: Family man-Master spy Srikant Tiwari is thoroughly bewildered upon learning that…

