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She is the author of Unarvum Uruvamum (Feeling and Form), the first of its kind in English from a member of the hijra community. [87] [88] She acted and directed stage plays on gender and sexuality issues in Tamil and Kannada. The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story [89] is part of the syllabus for final year students of The American College in ...
Bagoas (4th century BCE): prime minister of king Artaxerxes III of Persia, and his assassin (Bagoas is an old Persian word meaning eunuch). Bagoas, 4th century BCE: a favorite of Alexander the Great. Batis, 4th century BCE: resisted Alexander the Great at the Siege of Gaza (332 BCE). Philetaerus, 4th/3rd century BCE: founder of the Kingdom of ...
Hijras of Delhi. Hijra generally describes the self-organised spiritual and social community (from either the Hindu or Muslim religious traditions) of transgender women in North India, while in a historical sense it can also denote eunuchs in the Western sense of the word (as males who have been castrated and who serve as members of a royal or noble court).
HIJRA (Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid), an African organization; Hijra (South Asia), a term for eunuchs, transgender and intersex people; Hijrat, a South Asian term for protest emigration; Hijrat, Pakistani, 2016
An emasculated Chinese eunuch from the Qing dynasty Emasculation was performed in China on men to create palace eunuchs for the imperial court. [ 19 ] The practice dates back to the Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) [ 20 ] and continued up until 1924, [ 21 ] when the eunuch system was abolished by the last emperor of China, Puyi . [ 22 ]
In c.400, Augustine wrote in The Literal Meaning of Genesis that humans were created in two sexes, despite "as happens in some births, in the case of what we call androgynes". [16] Historical accounts of intersex people include the sophist and philosopher Favorinus, described as a eunuch (εὐνοῦχος) by birth.
Harish's wife is at a crossroads. She is aware that he will never stop living as a eunuch, but the negative social stigma around gender is something she cannot fully accept. In the state of Rajasthan, a eunuch community exists, overseen by Sharada Bai, the guru, and leader of over one-hundred eunuchs. She lives in a mansion with eight disciples ...
Habesha peoples (Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ; Amharic: ሐበሻ; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically employed to refer to Semitic-speaking and predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian peoples found in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea between Asmara and Addis Ababa (i.e. the modern-day Amhara, Tigrayan, Tigrinya ...