WPATH has an exciting announcement for the next three Virtual Book Club Episodes. We will be holding a Indian Subcontinent Series for our next three book club episodes. Mark your calendars for March 18, 2022, April 8, 2022 and May 20, 2022 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT. 

We are happy to report that Dr. Aqsa Skaikh, Amrita Sarkar, and Aadi will be the upcoming featured guests for the next three WPATH Book Club installments, join us to discuss their projects. Please view our flyer for more information on the upcoming Book Club events: The Taste of Tears with Aqsa Skaikh on March 18, 2022, HealingThrough Tagore with Amrita Sarkar on April 8, 2022 and Through the Veil with Aadi  May 20, 2022. 

WPATH is committed to bettering transgender and gender diverse lives across the globe, this is an exciting opportunity to hear from some prominent transgender and gender diverse voices from the subcontinent of India.

Register today for all three events in one registration link - Friday, March 18, 2022, Friday, April 8, 2022, and  Friday, May 20, 2022 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT.

 Book Club episodes provide attendees with an invaluable opportunity to interact with leading authors in transgender health.

WPATH will approve these episodes for the Listening Hours, Ongoing CE, or Elective Hours requirements, as part of our certification program. Each episode will be approved for 2 hours.

                            FREE for WPATH Members                                          $25 Non-members and $7.00 for LIEC

Friday, March 18, 2022 at 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT

The Taste of Tears with Dr. Aqsa Shaikh

The Taste of Tears is a collection of short stories that were conceived 15 years back in the metropolis of Bombay/Mumbai. As someone who was born and raised in a chawl in Bombay, the author has seen struggles of life in Bombay at close quarters and poured this lived experience into the stories. Later as a young medical doctor in Mumbai who traveled the city in its local trains and treated its masses in its biggest hospital, the author had the opportunity to keenly observe the various facets of the lives of the people of Bombay. The short stories explore and present the underbelly of Bombay through the tales of its invisible masses. Each story presents in a humane way, the things often seen but not discussed. The stories will take the reader into the world of child beggars, sex workers, death row inmates, orphans, street children, and so on. These stories present a mélange of suffering and hope, and of tears and smiles. Each of these stories and their characters will make a home in your mind- long after you have finished reading. Aqsa Shaikh (She/Her) is a medical doctor and teacher in Delhi, India. She is an Associate Professor of Community Medicine, Nodal Officer for Covid Vaccination Centre, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research. Having authored multiple academic books, this is her first venture into writing fiction. Aqsa is a poet and writes in English, Hindi, and Urdu. She is a rights-activist and Social Media influencer and writes and works for Transgender Persons, Persons with Disability and Person with Mental Illness. She is Founder-Director of Human Solidarity Foundation.

The Taste of Tears is available for free via a kindle unlimited subscription. All registered attendees will receive the link to the pdf version of the book in their registration confirmation email.

Register today for all three events in one registration link - Friday, March 18, 2022, Friday, April 8, 2022, and  Friday, May 20, 2022 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT.