• DR. SHIVANI RANA

This paper mainly offers a well close, contextualised reading of the A. Revathi’s A Life in Trans Activism with a huge emphasis on the embodiment, intersectionality, as well as praxis. Locating the memoir of the South Asian transgender activist Revathi within the contexts of the contemporary scholarly writing on South Asian transgender politics, the research poses the question of the role of the individual narrative as a genre of the testification as well as the strategic intervention in the South Asian transgender politics of dignity, rights, and material justice. I say that, so as to indicate that in her narrative Revathi recreates the thing of activism as embodied labour, or convergence of care giving, cultural production, grassroots organising, and legal-political advocacy and how in her story shortcomings of rights-based forms of mobilisation are opened up and demonstrations of resisting community-based resistance are made. The paper utilises the Feminist and Queer Theory of embodiment, intersectionality, and subaltern agency, with a focus on three registers of the text by Revathi, namely: (1) the image of a body and immersing oneself in daily gendered self-making practices; (2) the politics of institutional participation (commonly referred to as Sangama and NGO work) and contradictory aspects; and (3) intersectional coalitions and politics of visibility. Its conclusion is the reflection concerning the way Revathi praxis could be utilised in reference to the current trans politics in India (or elsewhere).

Keywords. Revathi, Trans Activism, Embodiment, Intersectionality, Hijra, South Asia, Sangama, Memoir, Resistance.

"EMPOWERMENT AND EMBODIMENT: TRANS ACTIVISM, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND RESISTANCE IN A. REVATHI’S A LIFE IN TRANS ACTIVISM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.13, Issue 1, page no.c692-c699, January-2026, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2601283.pdf

"EMPOWERMENT AND EMBODIMENT: TRANS ACTIVISM, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND RESISTANCE IN A. REVATHI’S A LIFE IN TRANS ACTIVISM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.13, Issue 1, page no. ppc692-c699, January-2026, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2601283.pdf