InQlusive Newsrooms has selected 10 journalists from across India for the InQlusive Newsrooms Media Fellowship 2023. The selected fellows are working on stories around LGBTQIA+ issues and communities, with the InQlusive Newsrooms team and jury mentoring them through the process. The fellows were selected from around 250 applicants, by our jury consisting of Dhanya Rajendran, Editor-in-Chief, The News Minute; Dhrubo Jyoti, Senior Editor, Hindustan Times; Living Smile Vidya, Theatre Practitioner; Meena Kotwal, Editor-in-Chief, The Mooknayak; and Ranjitha Gunasekaran, Assistant Resident Editor (Tamil Nadu), The New Indian Express.

Read our fellows’ stories here: 

A 700-yr-old Dargah and a tradition of gender diverse inclusivity that lives on to this day || Fellow: Rayyan Monkey

The Reality of India’s Transgender Welfare Boards: What an RTI Investigation Reveals || Fellow: Vaivab Das

தண்டனைக்குள்ளாகும் பாலின அடையாளம்! || Fellow: Sugitha Sarangaraj

Double blows of Article 370 abrogation, pandemic push Kashmiri trans women to take up sex work || Fellow: Gafira Qadir

Why securing a transgender ID in Delhi feels like an obstacle race || Fellow: Uthara Ullas