LonePack Conversations

Over a decade ago, there were almost no queer Indian voices online and no safe spaces for queer people to connect offline. What started as a simple blog for queer desis to share their stories, has grown into a community that exists not just online but offline too. In addition to its forum for people to share stories, Gaysi also features articles from prominent voices in the LGBTQ+ community. Welcome to LonePack Conversations! In today's episode, Jo from Gaysi talks about the importance of chosen families, affirmative therapy, and what it's like to be a gay desi.

When you decide to be true to yourself and live life without hiding a significant part of your identity, it’s common for people to make you feel like you don’t belong and are not accepted. A safe space to share your story and know that there are others like you gives you a sense of connection and comfort.

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In today's episode, Deepthi K talks about how to empower the queer identity within our society and the need to initiate conversations about the same.

Your teens are always a difficult time. We are trying to explore our rebellious natures, trying to find our identities, all the while trying to fit in with our peer group; and when we’re made to feel like we’re different and that we don’t belong - It’s challenging. It takes immense courage to stand up for ourselves and live our truth - even if that means we may not fully ‘fit in’. It’s okay to ‘fit out’.

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In today's episode, Anwesh Sahoo discusses the importance of living life with dignity and upholding one's self worth.

June marks the beginning of Global Pride month. It’s been heartwarming to see how aware, receptive and supportive we have become towards the LGBTQ community in the recent past. We’ve indeed come a long way. But somewhere deep down, we do realise that there’s still a stigma that needs to be shattered around it.

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In today's episode, Vinay Chandran, a counsellor, activist, writer, and the Executive Director of Swabhava Trust, discusses the stigma that surrounds being LGBT and the art of self-love.

When you don't have words to describe the feeling of emptiness, anger, frustration, you just go 'Meh'. It's an emotion that says a lot without saying much.

In this episode of LonePack Conversations, we discuss this feeling and how to tackle it among other initiatives from Mithra Trust with its founder Bhairavi Prakash, psychologist and public speaker.

It's been few days since we stepped out. Been few weeks since we ever had proper face-to-face interaction with fellow neighbours, colleagues, and friends. In the current outbreak times, people around reflect on a lot of things—from opinions and decisions, to as simple as what to eat for the next meal. And, there's some of them, wanting to have peer network and connectivity. Where are we headed towards?

Welcome to LonePack Conversations. In today's episode, we'll be hosting Lydia Denworth.

Lydia is a science journalist and a contributing editor at Scientific American. She's also authored a book titled "Friendship." She's here to point out the effectiveness of empathy, friendships, and mindfulness in the quarantine times.

Putting one’s efforts, money, time, and passion into building a company is easier said than done. Not only does it give one the fame and glory of establishing big in the business world, but also drive them crazy over various step-stones in the process to stardom.

Welcome to LonePack Conversations! In today's episode, Rand Fishkin, the Founder of SparkToro, previously Moz, discusses his journey of fighting depression as a startup founder, and walks us through the path of a leading business person trying to balance career and mindfulness.

The aim of our LonePack Conversations project is to help you all understand different aspects of mental health and how your work can be channelized for shattering the stigmas.

In this episode, we have Ms. Ruchita Chandrashekar with us. Ruchita is a licensed clinician, presently working for a federally funded program in the United States. She’s also a trauma therapist and a seasoned writer at some platforms like The Wire, HuffPost, and The Print.

Over the course of the session, she gives us first-hand information on what therapy looks like and shares her candid experiences of being into the mental health domain as a clinician.

A quote by Lao Tzu (Lau Cha), the Chinese philosopher says, “Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, and kindness in giving creates love.” Welcome to LonePack conversations!

In this session today, Ms. Nirmala Mehendale, Founder of Kindness Unlimited, an Indian non-profit aiming to create a movement that unifies the nation with kindness, talks about the impact of kindness on mental health, and how we as fellow human beings can keep each other happy.

The aim of our LonePack Conversations project is to help you all understand different aspects of mental health and how your work can be channelized for shattering the stigmas.

In this episode, we've hosted Ryan Bonnici, the Chief Marketing Officer of G2, one of the leading software companies in the world. Ryan also serves in the Board of Directors of the mental-health-based NGO, Bring Change to Mind. He opens up about handling the pressures and challenges being in the C-Suite, the way mental health is perceived in today's corporates, and the simple things teams can do to promote mental wellness.

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