Who We Are

Krishnachura: A Center for Gender Minorities Rights

We believe trans existence is not only an identity—it is a revolution.

Krishnachura is Bangladesh’s first gender minorities–led think tank and movement space. We work exclusively with and for non-cis individuals—including transgender, hijra, intersex, non-binary, and gender-diverse communities.

Our work centers those whose gender itself is politicized, criminalized, medicalized, and erased.

Executive Director

Details

Krishnachura was not born from comfort. It emerged from risk, care, and refusal to disappear. As a transgender and queer public health professional and human rights defender, Ho Chi Minh Islam works at the intersection of lived experience, research, and movement-building.

Krishnachura is a promise—to ensure that gender minorities are not reduced to footnotes, but recognized as authors of knowledge and culture.

Dignity

Dignity is non-negotiable. Our work protects the inherent worth of every non-cis life.

Care

Care is infrastructure—not charity. We build systems of collective protection.

Knowledge

We produce research rooted in lived experience and community wisdom.

Resistance

Art, policy, and presence are tools of transformation.

Vision

A Bangladesh where gender minorities are recognized, protected, and valued where our lives are not treated as exceptions.

Mission

To empower gender minorities in Bangladesh through community protection, inclusive healthcare, rights advocacy, economic dignity, cultural resistance, and knowledge production.

Meet the teachers

Experts in giving your children best start

Collective Voices

Krishnachura gave language to experiences we were taught to silence. Here, our lives are not cases- they are sources of knowledge.

#Name

We are building institutions of our own.

Support a gender minorities-led think tank rooted in care, art, and resistance.