Chittajit Mitra (he/they) is a queer writer, translator and journalist from Allahabad. They co-founded RAQS (Resistive Alliance for Queer Solidarity) in 2017, a queer collective based in the city which focuses on talking about gender, sexuality and mental health in Hindi. They believe in centering queer conversations in Indian languages and politicizing the queer community to fight majoritarianism, casteism and other ills that ails our society.
Currently they are also the general secretary of People’s Union of Civil Liberties, Uttar Pradesh which is a pan India Human Rights organization. They were also the recipient of the inaugural Rainbow Awards for Literature and Journalism in the Op-Ed category.