Sunil Mohan, a trans man, was Kerala State Women’s team Cricket Captain. He came to Bangalore, completed his Electrical Diploma and started working in Sangama, an NGO working for the rights of sexual minorities. He also worked with Samvada in the program Game For Change training two corporation colleges’ women’s teams. Fed up with that kind of NGO work, he started working independently on his research through community consultation process under the fellowship of Alternative Law Forum and published a report called “Towards Gender Inclusivity” in the year 2013. He has worked on Oral history video documentation of LGBTI people across south India with the fellowship of CCDS Open Space, Pune called “Expressions of the Oppressed Voices”, in the year 2011-12. He along with Rumi Harish started a study on Discrimination at Alternative Law Forum (ALF) and have written a report called Conversations on Caste Discrimination in South India along with advocates in ALF after conducting 95 conversations across South India. Sunil was an active member in the first Migratory LBT group in India and also started Raahi, an organization working for the rights of marginalized genders and sexualities in the year 2018 which he left. He got the Mirrors fellowship from Maraa, a media and arts collective in Bangalore and wrote his book “Your Stick Cannot Break My Strength”, a political memoir. He has won the South Asian level Kamala Bhasin Award for his work on crisis intervention in the field of marginalized sexualities and genders for 23 years.
