Raghava KK is an artist originally from Bangalore, India, who now lives and works out of New York. His recent immigration to the US was due to censorship of his work in India after he began exploring themes of masculinity following the coming out of a dear friend. He spoke eloquently about the situation at the TED conference in Long Beach, California, in 2010.

Raghava KK's latest art project, Pop-It, teaches open-mindedness and addresses issues of gender and sexuality in an iPad app for children. It deconstructs the concept of traditional notions of family and helps children to understand what family means from multiple perspectives. This is achieved by physically shaking the iPad. The app is about the things parents do with their children and begins by default with a gay male couple as parents. When shaken, they are replaced by a lesbian couple. When shaken again, the lesbian couple is replaced by a straight couple, and so on. You can check it out in the video below.

Ipad art Project- Pop It at home from Raghava KK on Vimeo.

What an innovative tool this is for children not only to learn about diversity in families, but also to help them in creating a peaceful social reality where their views may some day, I hope, become the common sense of a globe united.

Raghava KK is straight, by the way, and married to musician Netra Srikanth.