ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 2月19日 08時04分

Today in India, hijras — who include transgender and intersex people — are hard to miss. Dressed in glittering saris, their faces heavily coated in makeup, they sashay through crowded intersections knocking on car windows with the edge of a coin and offering blessings. They dance at temples. They crash fancy weddings and birth ceremonies, singing bawdy songs and leaving with fistfuls of rupees. Many Indians believe hijras have the power to bless or curse, and hijras trade off this uneasy ambivalence. “There is this mixture of negativity and positivity, a laughter, a fear, this sense they are oddities,” said Gurvinder Kalra, a psychiatrist who has studied the hijra community. But behind the theatrics are often sad stories — of the sex trade and exploitation, cruel and dangerous castrations, being cast out and constantly humiliated. @sarahyltonphoto took this portrait of Honey, 22, outside of the room where she’s been staying near a Mumbai train station. Visit the link in our profile to read more in @nytimesfashion about hijras and their fraught position in modern Mumbai. #TheLookNYT

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