As some sort of dark joke on Trans Visibility Day 2026, the nightmarish Trans Amendment Bill was given presidential assent. Amidst protests and all kinds of on ground work from our community’s end to communicate our dissent and what the amendment does to us trans folks. When I recently spiralled, I was reminded that the benefit of our history of invisibilisation as trans people and as a trans masc person, is in us having managed all along without the state’s recognisition. Within the cracks of laws, society, marginalisation, and violence - we have learnt to find love, care and support. And we will continue to do so. Of course there is fear because we had begun to hope, hope for laws that held us too. But we retreat to our cracks, knowing that we will still persist. They can play their rights granting-snatching, push and pull game all they want. This Trans Day of Visibility (although I got late posting this), I share this in public without fear and shame of who all might find out about my transness. This period has reminded me that there are too many institutions in place to remind me to fear my truth, but I will not let it because I have felt such joy in it. It was also scary but exciting to record my changed T-voice and experiment with it vocally.
Finding myself in the pool of overwhelm, I found myself feeling hope in creating. Using an old artwork of mine, and borrowing some very powerfully written lines by
@nishant.tayde from a killer song written by both Nishi and Shez
@joycean_catboy (make sure to have a listen if you haven’t on
@inshallah.babes ofc). Sending my warmest hugs to trans folks out there, to make it through these horrible times. Sleep lots, eat well and spend time in company of loved ones. Lots of love, Ono
P.S. adding my cohort of in-house family influencers as collaborators since mine is a private account <3
@rejecttransbill2026 #rejecttransbill2026 #billtohkacchahaiji
