It is important to be vocal for one’s fundamental right, through whichever way it suits you,” Karnika Bai, a transgender artist from Aravani Art Project, a trans and cis woman-led public art collective, tells us over a call ahead of their first solo exhibition in the city, On the cusp of the eighth day, for the Mumbai Gallery Weekend at Gallery XXL in Colaba. Completing nine years of putting out art that seeks to reclaim public spaces and challenge systemic discrimination against the LGBTQiA+ community, the Bengaluru-based collective has been a driving force behind the queer art scene in major metros like Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru.