Anshumaan Sathe

Make celebration feel like a storm. Love with reckless abandon. Dance till the earth breaks. Jai Bhim everyone!

Mumbai Takes Action! Apun Ki Identity. Apun ka Haq As always, the creative force behind our little collective actions: Photography by @rayyanmonkey Editing by @rayyanmonkey #RejectTransAct2026 #TransActWapasLo #BillTohKacchaHaiJi

Drew this recently because I wanted to draw something queer, musical, magical, colorful. Went down a rabbit hole of looking at the gorgeous fairytale illustrations of George Barbier - and this is the result! Also a reminder that no matter how difficult the world gets, we have the power to create things we find beautiful and that bring us joy :) Friends and dost-crushes who want to feel like you're part of a whimsical little fairytale - pls slide into my dms, and I shall draw you like one of my fairytale girls. Here's to building a queer utopia, one portrait at a time!

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

Some things can never be taken away from us :) #rejecttransbill2026

बिल सिर्फ कच्चा ही नहीं बदतमीज़ भी हैं! लेकिन हमारा दिल इसके ख़िलाफ़ है और हमेशा रहेगा🏳️‍⚧️ The Trans and Gender diverse communities have always expressed themselves best through art. Even in these trying times, our community stands together with love, solidarity, and a whole lot of whimsy! Give some love to the team behind the ‘Badtameez Bill’ anthem! Written by: @grammaticallyincorrectcobbler and fruitsofboredom Produced and performed by: @grammaticallyincorrectcobbler (vocals) and @adsgour (vocals, guitar) Starring the ultimate QTs: @bluebleue @_antsinpants @queer__rave @adsgour @khayalipalash @zena.sagar @shalswrit @chayanikashah @delicatefuckingflowers @the.insufferable.snob @meghnawrites @ritprasanna @abooootty @cubbykabi @kedu.archives We refuse to let a bill erase us or all that we stand for! That is why we say: #RejectTransBill2026 #NoGoingBack #TransRightsAreHumanRights #BillTohKacchaHaiJi

बिल तो कच्चा है जी! लेकिन क्यों? 🤔 If you’re looking for a quick explainer on why the Trans community is against the Trans Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, swipe through! And if you wish to get an in-depth explainer on the legal implications of this Bill, join us tonight at 8PM IST for a Zoom session with Advocate @kanmaniposts via the link in our bio!🔗 #BillTohKachhaHaiJi #rejecttransbill2026 #transrightsarehumanrights 🏳️‍⚧️ [Your feedback and suggestions are most welcome and if any errors are made we'll rectify it moving forward💚]

I would until very recently default to covering myself up while getting dressed - not realizing I was doing that until some conversations with @_antsinpants (and some incredibly gorgeous drag artists) made me push myself to feel sexier in my own skin. Not 100% there yet, but thought pride march is the best day to start! Anyways, here's some photos from before we left the house. Still not sure what to do when being photographed, but channeling the iconic and powerful Elvira from the movie "The Ugly Stepsister" definitely helped :p Beware, all who cast a judging eye. I shall hack your toes off gleefully. Also, big hug and chummas to @adsgour @_.inkedbyh._ @khayalipalash @manukamoshpit and all the other crazy and wonderful queers for a day that felt as sparkling as we looked. Happy Pride! (ya it's a repost cause found better music + more photos. thoda vanity banta hai.)

Let us be glad! Let us be grateful! It's Wicked season once again! Everybody laugh! Everybody cry! Everybody throw oscars at ariana grande's face!

The pleasures of farting in your own bed 💨💨

Anshu is a graphic artist and illustrator exploring queer desire through art that is personal, playful, and full of heart. Developed during the Residency, their project is a collection of trans fantasies of sex and of the body - many journeys of discovering the body as a source of immense pleasure and delight! 🎥 From the ongoing Serendipity Arts Residency 2025 🧫 Artist: @grammaticallyincorrectcobbler Join us for the Open Studio on Friday, August 1, 2025, from 6 PM onwards. Link in bio! 📍Serendipity Arts, C-340, Chetna Marg, Defence Colony, New Delhi 🗓 Exhibition on view: August 2–8 | 11 AM – 6 PM

Spent the loveliest day at @jaibhimnagar_bachav basti in powai. The singing, the dancing, the rapping, the naarebaazi felt like a big long tight hug and for one afternoon I was in a city where warmth, fun, politics could all coexist, haathon mein haath and hawa ke saath saath. Here's a small series of drawings of some of the kids gathered there. One tingu made me draw him 3 times because he felt none of the drawings did his good looks proper justice. It felt really nice to draw on paper after ages. Need to do that more. Thank you @divrodricks for lending me your papers and pens. Also met @ninnadd and @nidhi__jacob after a very long time and ran into @induviduality very unexpectedly which was an extra bright spot in an already shining day.