Jyotsna Siddharth (She/They) is an actor, intersectional queer artist, activist and writer.

They have worked with several non-profits, and bilateral organizations and are currently India Lead for Gender At Work. Jyotsna’s praxis spreads across intersections of social, art, activism, theatre, acting, development, caste-gender, feminist, and queer spaces. Their interests are multidisciplinary, experimental, and fluid from storytelling, embodied practice, acting, writing, and building community dialogue to supporting systems for making multiple mediums work collaborative, intersectional, and inclusive. Jyotsna embodies and wishes to push boundaries of comfort and build nuances, criticality, compassion, and resilience. They have been on several panels and actively involved with protests and social movements in India. Jyotsna’s work has been featured in Times of India, The Hindu, Roundtable India, Savari, Feminism in India, Smashboard, Ashoka Literature Festival, Mid-Day, The Rights Collective UK, The Citizen, India Culture Lab, Khirkee Voice, and many more. They are a co-founder of Sive (2017), founder of Project Anti Caste Love (2018), Dalit Feminism Archive (2019), Purple Library (2020), co-organized the first Indian adaptation of ‘A Rapist in Your Way’- the Chilean feminist collective Las Tesis in 2019, Delhi. Jyotsna has Masters in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and a Chevening Scholar (2014).

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