Age: 24
Identify as: Transman, Queer
Available on: Sunday: 6 pm to 10 pm
Monday: 12 pm to 10 pm
Tuesday: 6 pm to 10 pm
Mode of communication: Phone call, Video call or in-person

Hello, I’m Smriti, a trans man from Pune. I work with Pune Queer Collective, a collective working with queer and trans youth in the city. I’m also working part-time, doing my B.A. in English Literature and volunteering as an English teacher at a community learning centre. As a peer support provider, firstly I hope to create a safe, warm, welcoming and non-judgemental space for the support seeker. I believe that there is power in being able to understand and name our pain. Grieving, healing, changing and growing are as much individual as they are collective, as much personal as they are political. Informed by an anti-caste and queer feminist perspective I hope to work with support seekers to use this power as a source of strength and healing in writing and rewriting our stories.