The ongoing litigation in the Supreme Court around legalising same-sex marriage is bringing social media users out of the woodwork to voice their opinions, creating a lot of white noise and threatening to hijack the narrative and drown out important discourse. mid-day brings you a curated list of queer voices who are bridging the gap between myth and disinformation, and using their platforms as spaces for informed awareness.

Filmy AF

This queer couple describes themselves as a fully filmy lesbian couple and their content is a colourful exploration of how they are breaking stereotypes, one romantic couple post at a time. “The reason why we started a couple page is because we wanted to create the kind of queer content that the 16-year-old Sayantika and Nick didn’t have,” Sayantika Majumder, one-half of the couple, explains, referring to the overly sexualised image of lesbian couples in popular media. “We wanted to show that it’s possible to have that regular, normal, day-to-day life as a lesbian couple.” Nick Prakash, Majumder’s partner, adds, “We want to normalise the narrative and give young queer folks the hope that they can also have a filmy love story with two heroines.”
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Instagram: @nick_and_sayantika