Ritika Sharma

India - 2025 Cohort

Ritika Sharma is an artist–researcher from India, navigating queer and trans politics, climate justice, and participatory practices in Asia-Pacific.

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Ritika Sharma is an artist–researcher from India, navigating queer and trans politics, climate justice, and participatory practices in Asia-Pacific. She co-creates 'Gulabi Zameen: Pink Earth Initiative', a collective working on intersections of mental health, climate change and gender justice with queer and trans youth and children. The work here spans across advocacy, research and facilitation.

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'Pleasure as Method' is a participatory art project exploring pleasure as lived, political, and ecological knowledge within queer and trans communities in South and wider Asia. Queer Trans lives here are shaped by criminalization, surveillance, and climate crisis. Challenging the trauma-centered narratives, the project views pleasure as an embodied, relational, and everyday practice of resistance and imagination. Through a consent-driven online co-creation lab, the participatory practices will include exploration of gesture, sound, objects, movement scores, and collective reflections that will create shared vocabularies of pleasure. These can inform pleasure-centric sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) advocacy as well as climate justice advocacy by offering non-pathologizing and community-led frameworks for bodily autonomy and wellbeing. The project shall culminate in a web-based multimodal artist book grounded in care and non-extractive ethics.

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