Riju is a trans* feminist practitioner, gender justice activist, education practitioner, writer, group facilitator, and tarot reader. She envisions centering care and belonging in every space she holds. Her body of work focuses on creating safer learning spaces for marginalized young people, enabling them to access knowledge, skills, opportunities, and support within a system of care. Her practice is deeply informed by a decade of engagement with communities across India and by her lived experience of navigating the world as a trans* person. As a writer, she documents her own journeys of pleasure, desire, and sexuality as a trans woman, weaving personal narratives with collective wisdom to make visible the intimate and political dimensions of trans existence. She practices tarot as a tool of reflection, healing, and joy, a way of imagining and affirming the many realities of trans* life.
