Ms.Revathi A

A Revathi is a transgender community leader and theatre artist with a career spanning longer than a decade. She has served as the director of Sangama, an organization fighting for the rights of sexual minorities, where she has worked in crisis intervention, community mobilization, advocacy, and forging links between the transgender and Dalit and Adivasi women's movements. Beloved as Revathi  in the trans community, she has written three books, "Our lives, our words," an anthology of thirunangai life narratives, "The truth about me," her autobiography, and "A life in trans activism," an account of what it means to be a trans community activist. In 2019, her name was displayed on the wall of the Butler library in Columbia university alongside authors like Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. In the world of theatre, Revathi has had a career spanning over a decade. Her notable plays include "vellai mozhi," a solo adaptation of her autobiography directed by A Mangai, and "Parayan maranna kathakal," staged by the all-trans Mazhavil Dhwani theatre group, and Kattiyakkari theatre group  production by "Nooramma Biryani Darbar" a Solo play