Queer Activism in India

Queer Activism in India
Author: Naisargi N. Dave
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2012-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822353199

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This book examines the creation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s through the early 2000s and explores the everyday practices that comprise queer activism in India.

Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects

Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects
Author: Shraddha Chatterjee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-02-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351713566

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Queer Politics in India simultaneously tells two interconnected stories. The first explores the struggle against violence and marginalization by queer people in the Indian subcontinent, and places this movement towards equality and inclusion in relation to queer movements across the world. The second story, about a lesbian suicide in a small village in India, interrupts the first one, and together, these two stories push and pull the book to elucidate the failure and promise of queer politics, in India and the rest of the world. This book emerges at a critical time for queer politics and activism in India, exploring the contemporary queer subject through the different lenses of critical psychology, Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminist and queer theory, and cultural studies in its critique of the constructions of discourses of ‘normal’ sexuality. It also examines how power determines further segregations of ‘abnormal’ sexuality into legitimate and illegitimate queer subjectivities and authentic and inauthentic queer experiences. By allowing a multifaceted and engaged critique to emerge that demonstrates how the idea of a universal queer subject fails lower class, lower caste queer subjects, and queer people of colour, the author expertly highlights how all queer people are not the same, even within queer movements, as the book asks the questions, "which queer subject does queer politics fight for?", and, "what is the imagination of a queer subject in queer politics?" This hugely important and timely work is relevant across many disciplines, and will be useful for students of psychology and other academic areas, as well as researchers and activist organizations.

Digital Queer Cultures in India

Digital Queer Cultures in India
Author: Rohit K. Dasgupta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351800574

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The work argues that new media, social networking sites (SNS), both web and mobile, and related technologies do not exist in isolation, rather they are critically embedded within other social spaces. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, especially men's and masculinity studies, queer and LGBT studies, media and cultural studies, particularly new media and digital culture, sexuality and identity, politics, sociology & social anthropology, and South Asian studies.

Queering Digital India

Queering Digital India
Author: Rohit K. Dasgupta
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474421199

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Combines development theory with practice through a case study of the West African community of Tostan

Because I Have a Voice

Because I Have a Voice
Author: Arvind Narrain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2005
Genre: Gay rights
ISBN: 9788190227223

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This book with 27 articles is the first organised literary effort on the part of the gay community to assert itself in a world which still sees same-sex love as queer . The contributors to the anthology come from within the gay community, and hail from distant corners of the country.

Queer Activism in India

Queer Activism in India
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2012
Genre: Lesbian activists
ISBN: 9786613970206

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Delhi

Delhi
Author: Sunil Gupta
Publisher: New Press, The
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1620972662

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Delhi offers a stunning series of more than 150 full-color documentary photographs and companion first-person texts, which together offer an unprecedented portrait of LGBTQ people's lives in India today. Focusing on Delhi, noted photographers Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh chronicle the halting emergence of networks of men and women living under the shadow of stigma and criminalized behavior—in a country where anti-sodomy laws dating back to the British Empire were recently struck down, only to be reaffirmed in a surging wave of homophobia. The photographs in this lavishly presented volume reflect the photographers' celebrated capacity for entering into lives rarely seen. In Delhi, we are invited into the daily routines, work, homes, and intimate lives of subjects from different backgrounds—from urban professionals to day laborers. A visually arresting document in its own right, Delhi presents American readers with a starting point for understanding the profound struggles for recognition by India's LGBTQ community. Delhi was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).

Out of Time

Out of Time
Author: Rahul Rao
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190865547

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Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights. The law attracted attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US evangelical Christian activists who were said to have lobbied for its passage. Focusing on the Ugandan case, this book seeks to understand the encounters and entanglements across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias. It investigates the impact and memory of the colonial encounter on the politics of sexuality, the politics of religiosity of different Christian denominations, and the political economy of contemporary homophobic moral panics. In addition, Out of Time places the Ugandan experience in conversation with contemporaneous developments in India and Britain--three locations that are yoked together by the experience of British imperialism and its afterlives. Intervening in a queer theoretical literature on temporality, Rahul Rao argues that time and space matter differently in the queer politics of postcolonial countries. By employing an intersectional analysis and drawing on a range of sources, Rao offers an original interpretation of why queerness mutates to become a metonym for categories such as nationality, religiosity, race, class, and caste. The book argues that these mutations reveal the deep grammars forged in the violence that founds and reproduces the social institutions in which queer difference struggles to make space for itself.

Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace

Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace
Author: Parmesh Shahani
Publisher: Westland
Total Pages: 360
Release:
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9395073519

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About the Book A STEP-BY-STEP MANUAL FOR BUILDING INCLUSIVE WORKPLACES—AND A LESS UNEQUAL WORLD. The reading down of Section 377 by the Supreme Court in 2018 has led to a fundamental shift in the rights of India’s LGBTQ citizens and necessitated policy changes across the board—not least in the conservative world of Indian business. In this path-breaking and genre-defying book, Parmesh Shahani draws from his decade-long journey in the corporate world as an out and proud gay man, to make a cogent case for LGBTQ inclusion and lay down a step-by-step guide to reshaping office culture in India. He talks to inclusion champions and business leaders about how they worked towards change; traces the benefits reaped by industry giants like Godrej, Tata Steel, IBM, Wipro, the Lalit group of hotels and many others who have tapped into the power of diversity; and shares the stories of employees whose lives were revolutionised by LGBTQ-friendly workspaces. In this affecting memoir-cum-manifesto, Shahani animates the data and strategy with intimate stories of love and family. Even as it becomes an expansive reference book of history, literature, cinema, movements, institutions and icons of the LGBTQ community, Queeristan drives home a singular point—in diversity and inclusion lies the promise of an equitable and profitable future, for companies, their employees and the society at large.

Queer Nightlife

Queer Nightlife
Author: Kemi Adeyemi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2021-05-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472054783

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Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark