This paper will ethnographically explore online WhatsApp groups of working-class kothi (trans feminine spectrum) communities in eastern India, drawing from my experiences of online and offline participant observation as a trans-kothi researcher. Existing ethnographies of queer online spaces in India (e.g., Dasgupta 2017) have critiqued how middle-class, dominant-caste virtual cultures reinforce class and gender hierarchies. While such critique is important, I argue that there is a need of going beyond middle-class queer virtual cultures through the study of emergent working-class online queer/trans spaces, which can illuminate the evolving lived experiences of subaltern groups who are often silenced in elite gay/queer online spaces. However, these WhatsApp groups are not sites of pure resistance, but rather, spaces where colonial western and Indian dominant-caste gender/sexual discourses of cisnormativity and homonormativity are variably negotiated, adopted, and contested. Moreover, contrasting with longstanding online communities of elite queer people in India, these online spaces are often ephemeral, prone to loss and erasure. In that context, I will explore these spaces as an ephemeral archive of queer/trans worldmaking, that is, a living record of the practice of “creating a different world” through a “bottom-up engagement with the everyday” (Nakayama and Morris 2014: v). The ephemerality and fragility of these spaces makes their ethnographic documentation all the more urgent. Exploring how queer/trans worldmaking by kothis in WhatsApp groups can both reinforce and disrupt western and elite Indian discourses around gender and sexuality, I contend that a study of these spaces can help further the anthropological critique of dominant gender/sexual paradigms from the vantage point of underrepresented groups. References: Dasgupta, R. K. (2017), Digital Queer Cultures in India: Politics, Intimacies and Belonging, New York: Routledge. Nakayama, T. K. and C. E. Morris III (2014), ‘Worldmaking and Everyday Interventions,’ QED: A journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 2 (1): v-viii.