Aravani Art Project

While the visibility of Transgender people, Gender non-confirming people, and folx from the queer community is increasing in popular culture and daily life, they still face everyday discrimination, stigma, and systemic inequality. With a mission of attempting to reduce this in society, we ARAVANI ART PROJECT bring about change in the way society views the LGBTQIA+ community. We advocate the idea of reclaiming spaces in this world by creating different art projects to raise awareness and create a voice for the community. We are finding magical ways to engage with the people from the Transgender community and other LGBQIA+ people to come out in the public spaces and feel confident, safe, and belonged. We create safe spaces for alternate voices through art. We examine their spaces of innovation, the places of their history, and create room to learn by transforming this knowledge into a form of public art. The streets are a particularly important place to do our work, as it is in these public spaces that the bodies of transgender-identifying people attract violence, harassment, social negligence, and pressure. Our creative collective seeks to respond to these experiences by creating spaces that instead encourage exchange, discussion, openness, and debate surrounding gender identities. The visibility of the transgender figure has begun to disrupt long-held beliefs about gender and the ways we organize our lives around categories of gender. By making art together we are seeking to gently reshape the politics of inclusion and exclusion that surround gender identities. The struggle to accept and understand the identities of Transgender individuals exists in each society, race, and class. This includes a friendly bonding for women and trans-women to indulge in public art making. The Transgender community all over the world is in need of support, exposure, and most importantly art.