What are you?
Publication Design
Type 3
A typographical translation of the essay film- What Are You? by Tejal Shah. What are you?' amplifies the voices of the Hijra community in India, often called the ‘third gender’, shedding light on their existence at the societal periphery despite current legal frameworks. Expanding on the film’s political dialogue and artistic direction, this book means to recontextualize India’s discourse around gender politics. Providing a kaleidoscopic view of what is presented as irreversible facts, it celebrates a community’s identity while also subverting its external perception. What are you?- is a question that carries such specificity, a specificity that this book channels through pervasion. It channels an ever-expanding identity that has no limits and exists in worlds beyond the physical and tangible. In this non-linear, multidimensional space, these two books display the tension between living separately while depending on the other for clarity.