About
It’s Me Shash⌗

Hi all!
I’m Shash Appan! This is my personal website!
I’m an Indian trans woman who happens to be good at talking to people about trans and race and especially on how that intersects! I also talk about my experiences in navigating society as a disabled, trans and brown and how that informs my politics and work I do. I’m a co-founder of and volunteer a lot of my time to running Trans Aid Cymru, a mutual aid organistion for the trans people in Wales. We provide grants, a meal share and other services in order to help our community. I am also a part of the Trans Safety Network where we publish articles on transphobia and transphobic groups to better equip our community and inform the public.
My Twitter: @ItsShash1
My email: [email protected]
I do a lot of public speaking feel free to get in touch to hire me, a few examples below⌗
- Queer Question Time Cardiff 2018
- LGBTQymru Virtual Pride 2020 ‘I am who I am panel’ (at 19:40mins) [Video]
- LGBTQymru Virtual Pride 2020 ‘Glitter Cymru and UK Black Pride where panellists explore issues surrounding race and racism within the LGBTQmmunity’ [Video]
- Stonewall’s Trans Staff and BAME/PoC Staff Network present The Roundtable #1: discussions from trans people of colour
- Stonewall Cymru Workplace Conference 2018 - Closing Session Panel
- GlitterTalks - Glitter Cymru 2018 [Video]
- Panelist at BAME Pride 2019 - Organised by Glitter Cymru
- Pride in Our City: In Conversation With Shash Appan
- #TransDayofVisibility 2021: Shash’s story - ILGA Europe Article
- 22 Sept 2021- Online book launch: The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye Interviewed by Shash Appan from Trans Aid Cymru By Shelflife Books and Zines
- I spoke at the Conversion Therapy Protest held by Trans Aid Cymru in Cardiff [voice.wales][ITV][Pink News]
- I’m on the Pinclist 2021 at number 8!
- International Women’s Day 2022: A day in the life of an LGBT+ activist
- Interview and modelled for Burnt Roti Magazine [Some Photos here]
I also have all these skills below⌗
- Image and Vector manipulation (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,Lightroom)
- Graphic Design
- Workshop
- DevOps
- TrueNAS
- Proxmox
- Building PCs, Repairing Hardware, Soldering
- OSINT
- Sysadmin
- Web-hosting
- Python
- Shell
- PHP (But I will not voluntarily work on it.)
- Docker/Podman
- LXC Containers
- Virtualisation (QEMU/libvirt)