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transgender identity. In 2009 when a popular matrimonial website rejected the matrimonial listing of a transgender woman, she took it as a challenge and launched India's first matrimonial website for transgender people. The project was hailed as a bold attempt in upholding transgender people's rights. She has created more than 12 documentary films on LGBT rights and has also appeared in international documentary films. In 2010, she trained many underprivileged transgender women in community journalism and encouraged them to make short documentary films telling their own stories. When she lived in
Auroville, she protested against encroachments of village lands by Auroville. In October 2019, Kalki organised the first
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states of India including People living with HIV (PLHIV), documenting their experiences as first-person accounts lives in depth. The stories transgender people painful experiences of bullying, rape and assault are documented by the team. This is a community art project where the participant writes the experience on a handmade paper and imprints their red palm on it. These testimonials are exhibited in academic institutions and galleries for public viewing and to show resistance against abuse.
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find a voice without words, providing transgender victims of sexual and physical abuse a freedom to express their pain through art called the Red Wall
Project, also known as the Shut Up! Show. Hundreds of transgender people have participated in the project across the different States of India and wrote their testimonials on a white paper with a red palm impression to show protest against sexual exploitation. In November 2019, Kalki paid a tribute art show to the late Bollywood actress
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Redwall is a project that was found in 2018 by Kalki to make the voices of the transgender and gender-diverse people of India powerful. Kalki and the team of Sahodari Foundation have been interviewing more than 500 transgender and gender-diverse survivors of sexual abuse and assault from various
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Kalki's artworks are considered vibrant and colourful. She has been invited to US, Canada, Netherlands, and
Germany to speak on art and activism. In 2016, Subramaniam sold her paintings through a crowdfunding campaign and funded the education of underprivileged transgender women. She uses art to
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In 2024, Kalki published a collection of her Tamil poems, short stories, essays and art titled 'Oru Thirunangaiyin Diary Kurippu' (ஒரு திருநங்கையின் டைரிக் குறிப்பு) which was published by Thirunangai Press.
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