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Why hijra advocacy often exploits the advocates

The NGO keeps inviting me to speak about hijra issues but never pays me while they get funded specifically for work with our community.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional extraction of lived experience for organizational benefit perpetuates economic marginalization under the guise of inclusion.

Ideas that help explain it
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