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This book documents and analyzes the effects of the COVID-19
pandemic through queer and feminist perspectives. A testament of
dispossessions as well as a celebration of various forms of
resilience, community building and critical responses, it
chronicles the social history of queer and trans persons and women
in South Asia and the diasporas. Through a creative and
collaborative form of ethnographic writing, the book enters in
conversation with the worlds of domestic helps, caregivers,
cultural workers, students, sex workers and other precariously
employed people. It examines the confining effects of the pandemic
on the lived realities of many queer and trans individuals, the
caste-oppressed and women across socio-economic backgrounds. The
chapters in the volume piece together narratives of prejudice,
hardship, self-expression and resistance from interviews, personal
accounts, as well as poems and stories from activists, artists and
other collaborators. The book pays particular attention to issues
of power and asymmetrical relationships amidst COVID-19 and offers
critiques to deepen the understanding of the uneven fault lines
within which historically oppressed persons reside in South Asia.
Exploring themes of migration, disability and sexual politics, this
book is an essential reading for scholars and researchers of gender
and sexuality studies, cultural studies, South Asian studies,
sociology and social anthropology.
Liveable Lives examines what makes life liveable for LGBTQ+ people
beyond equality reforms. It refuses the colonizing narrative of
surviving in a ‘regressive’ Global South and thriving in a
‘progressive’ Global North. By linking the concept of
liveability with the decolonial literature on sexualities, this
open access book draws on individual's stories, art and writing to
examine how lives become liveable across India and the UK,
providing a multifaceted investigation of two divergent contexts
where activists refuse local framings of exclusion/inclusion and
LGBTQ+ lives are continually re-envisioned. Embracing diverse
methodologies, including workshops, in-depth interviews, street
theatres, and web surveys, the book stands as an example of a queer
collaborative praxis that refuses the familiar Global North /
Global South practices of theorizing and data gathering. The ebook
editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND
4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Friendship as Social Justice Activism brings together academics and
activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love,
and desire as kinetics for social justice movements. The
contributors featured here come from across the globe and are all
involved in diverse movements, including LGBTQ rights,
intimate-partner violence, addiction recovery, housing, migrant,
labor, and environmental activism. Each essay narrates how living
and organizing within friendship circles offers new ways of
dreaming and struggling for social justice. Recent scholarship in
different disciplinary fields as well as activist literature have
brought attention to the political possibilities within friendship.
The essays, memoirs, poems, and artwork in Friendship as Social
Justice Activism address these political possibilities within the
context of gender, sexuality, and economic justice movements.
Liveable Lives examines what makes life liveable for LGBTQ+ people
beyond equality reforms. It refuses the colonizing narrative of
surviving in a ‘regressive’ Global South and thriving in a
‘progressive’ Global North. By linking the concept of
liveability with the decolonial literature on sexualities, this
open access book draws on individual's stories, art and writing to
examine how lives become liveable across India and the UK,
providing a multifaceted investigation of two divergent contexts
where activists refuse local framings of exclusion/inclusion and
LGBTQ+ lives are continually re-envisioned. Embracing diverse
methodologies, including workshops, in-depth interviews, street
theatres, and web surveys, the book stands as an example of a queer
collaborative praxis that refuses the familiar Global North /
Global South practices of theorizing and data gathering. The ebook
editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND
4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Drawing on the incredible wealth of diversity of languages,
cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been
articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of
lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and
ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding
the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion
that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and
essentialist. Through careful consideration of contemporary
debates, these writers, theorists, academics and activists consider
the wider place of lesbian feminisms within queer theory,
post-colonial feminism, and the movement for LGBT rights. It
considers how lesbian feminisms can contribute to discussions on
intersectionality, engage with trans activism and the need for
trans-inclusion, to ultimately show how lesbian feminisms can offer
a transformative approach to today's sexual and gender politics.
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