Sharan, A2026-03-092026-03-092026-03-09In: Reimagining Disasters: Voices in the Pluriverse. Edited by JC Gaillard & Ksenia Chmutina. 1st Edition. Routledge. eBook ISBN 9781032632797. Chapter 7. DOI: 10.4324/9781032632797http://hdl.handle.net/10292/20736Diverse gender groups experience disasters in different and unequal ways. In disaster studies, gender is still often understood as synonymous to [cis]women. As a result, the experiences of individuals not conforming to the binary gender categories are often left out of the gendered analysis of disasters. Additionally, the Western classifications of gender diverse groups as LGBTIQA+ often do not align with gender identities in South Asia. Given this context, this chapter explores the experience of hijras, believed to be the oldest non-binary group in India, in disasters. It looks at how colonial legacies and local cultural contexts form the basis of their ‘othering’ in their everyday lives, which makes them vulnerable at the time of disasters. Further, the chapter delves into understanding the hybrid nature of their identities that provides hijras space to resist against the forces of othering in the form of their unique capacities.This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Reimagining Disasters: Voices in the Pluriverse on 9 March 2026, available online at DOI: 10.4324/9781032632797-7Environment and SustainabilityGeographyChapter in BookOpenAccess10.4324/9781032632797-7