Liza Tom is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies, with a Graduate Option in Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies. She is an FRQSC (Fonds de recherche du Quebec) Doctoral Research Award holder. Her research focuses on the ways in which gender-variant communities in Bangalore, India are interpellated within discursive identity rubrics like 鈥渢ransgender鈥�, and how they access rights-based and popular narratives of inclusion through and against these frameworks. In particular, her work looks at the role that non-governmental organizations play in shaping policy and civil society narratives on transfeminine communities in the city. She has an Integrated Master鈥檚 from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras (IIT-M).
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Liza鈥檚 email address: liza.tom [at] mail.mcgill.ca