{"id":2449,"count":2,"description":"Pawan Dhall is a Kolkata-based queer activist, archivist, researcher and writer. He was a founding member of Counsel Club, Kolkata (1993-2002), among India\u2019s earliest queer support groups, and edited its house journal <em>Pravartak<\/em>. He worked with SAATHII from 2002-14 on universal access to health and social justice. He is now associated with the gender and sexuality non-profit Varta Trust as Founding Trustee. His latest publications include <em>Queer Potli: Memories, Imaginations and Re-imaginations of Urban Queer Spaces in India<\/em> (Queer Ink, 2019) and <em>Out of Line and Offline: Queer Mobilizations in \u201890s Eastern India<\/em> (Seagull Books, 2020). Beyond work, his passions lie in baking, badminton and bird watching.","link":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/contributor\/pawan-dhall","name":"Pawan Dhall","slug":"pawan-dhall","taxonomy":"contributors","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributors\/2449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/contributors"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?contributors=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}