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100			_aChakraborty, Roshni _929344
245			_aMorality and mortality - Covid-19 and India’s sexual hierarchy
260			_aEconomic & Political Weekly
300			_a56(20), May 15, 2021: p.26-31
520			_aThe COVID-19 pandemic and its concomitant socio-economic shocks have severely affected the lives of sex workers and members of the transgender community. This article examines how the visibility of such sexual minorities in public spaces has been perceived as a threat to public decency and morality. It highlights the exclusionary pressures they face from the state and community, which have been exacerbated by COVID-19. Overcrowded housing, financial precarity, and a reduction in demand for their services place them at higher risk of infection and starvation, while political and social exclusion restricts their access to government service. Reproduced
773			_aEconomic & Political Weekly
906			_aCOVID-19 (DISEASE) – INDIA
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