FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: fizapathan@fizapathanpublishing.com Author Fiza Pathan receives national recognition through the INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD®! Mumbai -- The INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD recognized The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories by Fiza Pathan as a Distinguished Favorite in the category of LGBTQ Fiction. This is the third award bestowed … [Read more...] about The INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD for The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories by Fiza Pathan
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#Poem I Loved Her Too: Fiza Pathan
Congratulations dear groom on your marriage day, I’m a girl from your newly wedded wife’s side of the family; You ask me what relationship I share with your wife. Well the answer is simple manly groom for just like you I loved her too. So what if I’m a girl myself honorable groom of my lovers final choice, I am faithful to her just the same for your clarification; But the day … [Read more...] about #Poem I Loved Her Too: Fiza Pathan
#shortstory ‘Kasha: The love of a Hijra’ by Fiza Pathan
Kasha: The love of a Hijra by Fiza Pathan My name is Lily and I am a Hijra belonging to the Hijra or the eunuch community of Mumbai. My Guru baptized me with this name after my operation, when my private parts were chopped off from my body infront of all my Hijra friends and elders, as a sign that now I had become one of them. My Guru named me Lily, for she felt that I was … [Read more...] about #shortstory ‘Kasha: The love of a Hijra’ by Fiza Pathan
#stories ‘Asexual Vishaka’ by Fiza Pathan
Asexual Vishaka by Fiza Pathan Many of us hear about someone being LGBT that is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. We have got college friends, office colleagues, bar friends and most of the time people in our own families who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender. However, when I learnt what I was . . . I was shocked that even I had a label in the ‘queer’ … [Read more...] about #stories ‘Asexual Vishaka’ by Fiza Pathan
I Am Norman (Short Story) by Fiza Pathan
I Am Norman by Fiza Pathan Ever since I can remember, I knew that I was Norman. I felt like Norman and acted like Norman and every bit of me wanted to be Norman….but the problem was, everyone around me including my parents were not treating me as ‘Norman’ which was normal for me . . . they were treating me as ‘Nora’ . . . a girl . . . but I wasn’t a girl and I knew it. I … [Read more...] about I Am Norman (Short Story) by Fiza Pathan