All young women whom the current political junta doesn’t like–westernized, assertive, working girls with their own plans–are represented as ball-crushing fiends.
Category: LGBTQ
Call for Papers on South Asia and Masculinity
We invite papers that are sensitive to contradictions, ambiguities, and affective dissonances that surface in the fictional depictions of masculinities due to economic, racial, religious, caste, and sexual hierarchies and conflicts.
Announcing the Tasveer South Asia Festival online…. Movies, Books and Conversations
Announcing the Tasveer South Asia Festival online
On Arundhati Roy, from the writer of Love’s Garden….
“The targets of the dual assault of communal fascism and neo-liberalism are the poor and the minority communities (who, as time goes by are gradually being impoverished.) As neoliberalism drives its wedge between the rich and the poor, between India Shining and India, it becomes increasingly absurd for any mainstream political party to pretend to represent the interests of both the rich and the poor, because the interests of one can only be represented at the cost of the other.”
Autobiography of Political Blackness
This series will be about my connection as a South Asian-American to Political Blackness, a term now in use to describe solidarity across races.
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