Growing up intersex and its meaning in present-day Brexit Britain; constant shifts that a modern Indian woman faces; the relationship between hair length and identity; transgender men and women and their experience of exclusion with respect to the politics of caste and religion. These are but some of the stories you will find at the Kadak Reading Room, a travelling library of self-published comics and zines, which makes its debut in Mumbai in early December.

The Reading Room was started as a response to Gender Bender 2016, by the Kadak Collective. “We are a graphic or comic collective for experimental visual storytelling, spread across London, Los Angeles, Mumbai and Bengaluru. When we have something to say, a story to tell, we use comics to say it,” says Garima Gupta, a freelance illustrator from Mumbai.