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Sruti Swaminathan, a staff attorney for Lambda Legal, which is working with other civil liberties groups in mounting a legal challenge to the legislation barring gender-affirming care, said, “This is clearly an effort to villainize us and isolate us because they fear our resilience and our self-love and our collective power.”

“Tennessee legislators seem hellbent on joining the growing roster of states determined to jeopardize the health and lives of transgender youth, in direct opposition to the overwhelming body of scientific and medical evidence supporting this care as appropriate and necessary,” said Lambda Legal Staff Attorney for Youth Sruti Swaminathan in a statement.

As Sruti Suryanarayanan, of the Asian American social justice group South Asian Americans Leading Together, told me, “This election season’s going to be really wild because we’ve never seen Indian Americans so specifically pandered to by two electoral candidates in such different ways.”

V Ramanarayan, editor-in-chief of Sruti, an Indian performing arts magazine, said: "Even in his 80s he would get along so well with young people."

Highlights include the vocalist Joan La Barbara leading a call-and-response piece in Washington Heights; a piece for bicycle bells performed by cyclists in Prospect Park; a High Line Soundwalk in which footsteps are rendered into sounds ranging from electric guitar to water splashes via a smartphone app; Parranda caroling in the Bronx and Brooklyn; drumming in the West Village; lantern-illuminated medieval melodies through Central Park en route to Cathedral of St. John the Divine; a kalimba parade in Bushwick and sruti boxes in Astoria.