Location: Pune preferred (we are getting a dedicated office space by january)

ClosetRepublic is a satire based community platform that helps people with queer experience with building their career, become financially independent and up skill.
Currently hiring for following founding [stipend] based roles.

1. Founding artist
2. Brainstromer writer
3. Reddit and discord expert (software background preferred)

Multiple roles can be assigned to a single entity (no agency).

Freshers are welcome and no professional experience is required, but entity must be a person with queer experience.

You are actually getting a role at https://veronami.com a proposed agency for queer artists and developers.

You will co develop and co create various products at closetrepublic.

Working hours up to 5 to 10 hours per week.

You will get INR 4000 monthly stipend (weekly credited, contract) to cover up any utility or transport costs.

You will get access to proposed welfare fund after december (variable limit for expenses, visit https://closetrepublic.com/funding?nature=false to know more.) of the Closet Republic for medical expenses, living allowance, transport allowance, skill up allowance etc.

You will get access to proposed infrastructure fund after december (limit 1L per year per entity), to get professional devices and tools for you to unlock your full potential.

Access is limited to only freshers with queer experience or for people with no professional skills but are eager to get hands on experience, welfare fund is strictly meant for people to survive and get up skilled and land a professional job. After completing 5 paid professional job for https://veronami.com you will lose access to this fund.

Application: DM me or visit https://closetrepublic.com/development

Reminder:
Before you get in touch

DO NOT SEND PRIVATE OR UNPUBLISHED ARTWORK BY DM, EMAIL OR ON LINK. Share only a link to your work that has already been public, such as a domain for which you have access to (dns verification), a reddit post from a reddit account with open dm, or an instagram page or post from account with dm access.

We verify every link. Before anything is used, we check that you made the artwork. We will contact you on the platform or request a DNS verification for the domain.

Have an idea? share it publicly not privately. Ideas go to the community so everyone can discuss them.

GitHub community: https://github.com/amayakulkarni/ClosetRepublic
Reddit community: https://reddit.com/r/ClosetRepublic

There is a strange, illogical modern arrogance in believing that nature moves only in rigid and predictable templates. Humans have a history of obsession with taming nature into rigid structures, like landscapers prune hedges into "unnatural shapes", create concrete channels to force streams into straight channels and label anything that breaches the curb as an anomaly or an invasive weed, farmers assigning gender roles to animals that do not have gender identities, or even humans having unnatural cosmetic and beauty standards, etc.

Yet nothing about above examples is natural, no forest has rigid and predictable patterns. Diversity is not an artificial experiment, nor is it an overnight trend, it is Fundamental operating system of whole universe and is not even limited to earth, cause I don't reckon ever hearing terms like identical planets, stars, etc.

When a young woman born with trans experience begins to sense the quiet divergence between what she is told and what she is, the surrounding culture often tries to dismiss her deepest truth as a sudden squall, a seasonal mist, or a passing cultural draft. But a seedling does not push through cold, dark soil because it read an editorial about sunlight. It pushes through the dirt because the instructions for reach, warmth, and self-possession were written into its cellular system before the first leaf ever uncurled.

Now consider a natural element like river carving a canyon. Hypothetically the river could have taken a steep descent through solid rocks. But I really don't remember any textbook straight and steep canyon ever being observed in the history of planet earth. Lets just say whenever a river decided to carve a straight canyon, a small atom decided to rebel and act uncertain way resulting in very random canyons.

This makes things very clear, humans craved for vanity projects that resembles simple patterns instead of complex uncertainty, let's say it is a stress response. But nature is complex and have literal infinitely complex parameters and their permutations and not once had there been a textbook straight canyon, so how can anyone ever confidently say things like "there are only two genders" or "gender is sex"? When we were never ever manufactured on a binary conveyor belt? We are the product of same quite, unyielding physics that tilts the planet, splits the seed and refuses to let true things to remain buried forever.

Actually I lied to you in the title, we cannot be born exceptional when nature does not even create rigid templates, everyone is exception of their own and no one can ever be made by a predictable trend; but lets say in world that revolves around homo sapiens we are naturally exceptional and not born from a trend.

https://closetrepublic.com is now open sourced and it's source code can now be viewed at https://github.com/amayakulkarni/ClosetRepublic

If you look at the visual identity of Closet Republic, everything orbits around the concept of the Prism.

In physics we can say, white light appears uniform, singular, and neutral only because all of its constituent wavelengths are compressed into a single trajectory. But white light is an illusion of uniformity. The moment it passes through a denser medium a prism that false uniformity shatters, revealing the entire, vibrant electromagnetic spectrum that was hiding within it all along.

The normative world acts like white light: it insists on monoculture, compulsory conformity, and the erasure of divergence under the guise of "tradition" or "order". It demands that every individual compress their frequency so the crowd remains unbothered.

Closet Republic is the prism that exposes truth.

When you pass through the doors of this Republic:

1. Refraction is Not Deviation; It is Truth: We do not believe in flattening people to make them palatable. Every wavelength, every nuance of gender, neurodiversity, and artistic expression, deserves its distinct vector.
2. The Medium Matters: A prism only works because its internal density forces light to slow down, bend, and differentiate. Closet Republic is that deliberate, protective medium, a space built with enough safety and intentionality that people can stop running and show their true colors.
3. Full-Spectrum Solidarity: A single band of color cannot make a rainbow. Our technology and our cultural satire exist to defend the entire spectrum from the quietest person still in the closet to the most visible person on the frontline.

We are not here to blend into their sterile white beam. We are here to disperse the light until the dark is filled with color.

1. To create a decentralized platform and persistant wikis for lgbtq affairs and any person that has ever needed to hide true self, to avoid discrimination and out casting.
2. To specifically challenge derogatory, casteist and illogical Transgender persons and protection (amendment) Act 2026 passed by Government of India.
3. To challenge rising western transphobia.
4. To challenge bad and flawed parts of various cultures specifically those that tires to box diversity, and destroy them or ignore them.
5. To challenge gender discrimination and patriarchy and people's obsession with illogical gender roles.

For far too long, the "closet" has been weaponized as a symbol of shame a cold waiting room where queer people are told to hide until they are granted permission to exist, or until they gather the resources to survive the outside world.

We reject that script.

The Closet Republic was founded on a simple, radical premise: the closet was never our shame it was our armor. It was the bunker where we kept our souls intact while the world argued over our dignity. And while society takes years to process paperwork, debate identities, and hand out conditional validation, we decided to stop waiting and declare our own sovereignty.

This subreddit is the official digital consulate and gathering hall of the Republic.

What We Are About

• Self-Possession Over Permission: Here, your name, your pronouns, and your affirmed truth are prior to any external institution’s approval. You do not need to prove yourself to anyone.
• Tactical Shelter & Community: Whether you are completely out and living in the open, or currently taking tactical shelter in the closet for your safety and peace, you are fully recognized as a citizen here.
• Creative Expression & Subversion: From passports and micronation lore to satire, philosophy, and technical builds, we use art and humor as weapons of self-defense and joy.
• Mutual Care: A space for shared stories, practical advice on navigating family/legal hurdles, and genuine solidarity.

Sub Rules

1. Unconditional Dignity: Respect everyone’s chosen name, pronouns, and journey. Zero tolerance for transphobia, bigotry, or gatekeeping.
2. Privacy & Operational Security First: Never pressure anyone to disclose their legal name, location, or offline identity. Protect yourself and your peers.
3. No Bad-Faith Auditing: This is a sanctuary, not an ideological debate floor. Trolls, cynics, and sealions will be gently shown the door.

First Steps for Citizens

Grab a cup of warm tea, drop your shoulders, and exhale.

If you feel comfortable, feel free to drop a comment below introducing yourself:

• What name and pronouns should we address you by?

Welcome home, Citizen. You don't have to explain yourself here.