Feminist Review, Volume 133, Issue 1, Page 81-89, March 2023 ..read more

Feminist Review, Volume 133, Issue 1, Page 114-118, March 2023 ..read more

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Feminist Review, Volume 133, Issue 1, Page 48-62, March 2023. This is a meditation on love and suffering, pleasure and pain. Despite common sense, public discourse and scholarship narrating these states as diametrically opposed, the lived experience of queer romantic love cannot be disarticulated from the social realities of loss and pain. Suturing love and suffering is the metaphysic of indeterminacy, with the unexpected and uncertain marking romantic encounters and ambitions with precarity and impermanence. Drawing from vignettes gained through an ethnography on queer erotics in Sri Lanka in ..read more

Feminist Review, Volume 133, Issue 1, Page 11-25, March 2023. In July 2021, a series of gruesome videos exposed a case of brutal torture perpetrated by a guru or leader of the trans feminine hijra community in eastern India. This guru was allegedly of a Bangladeshi Muslim background, and various community members used the case as an alibi to target hijras of such national and religious origin, sometimes even demanding their expulsion from India. This phenomenon paralleled increasing affiliations between certain sections of trans/hijra communities and the Hindu Right. This article situates this ..read more

Feminist Review, Volume 133, Issue 1, Page 1-10, March 2023 ..read more

Feminist Review, Volume 133, Issue 1, Page 63-78, March 2023. Deliberations and discussions on inter-caste relationships in South Asia so far have been fixed within the confines of heterosexuality. Not only are heterosexual inter-caste relationships the default imagination of an inter-caste love, but also notions of heteronormativity dominate discussions of inter-caste love, relationship and, importantly, inter-caste marriages. In asking ‘queer’ questions about caste, this article analyses what an inter-caste dynamic means for social movements which rally around notions of love and desire or c ..read more

Feminist Review, Volume 133, Issue 1, Page 42-47, March 2023 ..read more

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Feminist Review, Volume 133, Issue 1, Page 34-39, March 2023 ..read more