As we close the #pridemonth, Readomania is very happy to announce our foray into LGTBQI literature with Queer Chronicles (tentative title), written by Dr. Tanushree Ghosh. The book will be release within a few months.
The book is a collection of stories dealing with an LGBTQ or non-heteronormative protagonist, highlighting through fiction what it means to be so, offering opportunities for reflective understanding. The stories cover a nuanced range: from the gender spectrum, struggles with gender and sexual orientation, challenges faced by transgender and L,G, B individuals living in different nations and in different tiers of society, contemporary questions on inclusion and questions on how much is too far in inclusion, and age-old biases. The book also includes factual notes on LGBTQ (definitions and statistics). We as a society still don't understand what it means to be LGBTQ, this book however, will take us one step closer.
Dr. Tanushree Ghosh (Ph.D. Cornell University) is Director at Intel Corp., a social activist, and an author. Her blog posts, op-eds, poems, and stories are her efforts to provoke thoughts, especially towards issues concerning social justice. She is a contributor (past and present) to several popular e-zines incl. The Huffington Post US (where her first post on returning to India as the mother of a daughter went viral and was picked up by Yahoo News and where she subsequently authored many successful op-eds on gender, Syria war, mental health, the western media’s coverage of the Brazil Olympic and so on), The Logical Indian, Youth Ki Awaaz, Tribune India, Women’s Web, Thrive Global, and Cafe Dissensus (where she hosted her own segment on social satire titled Black Light). Her literary resume includes poems and stories featured in national and international magazines (Words Pauses and Noises, UK; TUCK, Glimmer Train Honorable mention) as well as inclusion in over a dozen anthologies such as Defiant Dreams (Oprah 2016 reading list placeholder) and The Best Asian Short Stories 2017 (published out of Singapore by Kitaab). Her first single author book is From An-Other Land (Readomania, India, 2018). A short story collection dealing with immigrants and acculturation, the work was featured on KJZZ, NPR. Beyond #MeToo (Sage Publications, 2022) is her second single author work. She is the founder and director of Her Rights Inc. a non-profit committed to furthering the cause of gender equality and frequently speaks on human rights, social justice, advancement and diversity and inclusion in corporate and non-profits panels. In 2019, she was a panelist at Times Lit Bangalore for sessions on gender and diaspora. She has been featured on several international podcasts (including the prestigious Women In Manufacturing from Jacket Media) and in the Fall 2021 Diversity Woman Magazine Power 100 list of 100 extraordinary women. She was a winner of the Orange Flower Award (2021) for her short story in the LGBTQ category and was the Winner of Intel’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Advocate of the year for Greater America (2022). Her works have also been nominated for several over social category awards in India. In 2024, Dr. Ghosh was included in Marquis Who’s Who In America by invitation. She is mother to a 11-year old and lives in Chandler, AZ.
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