Andolan Imaginaries

Anjali Arondekar is associate professor of feminist studies and founding codirector, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality, caste, and historiography. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (2009) and Abundance: Sexuality, Historiography, Geopolitics (forthcoming).

Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker, writer, and dedicated antakshari player. She has made several landmark documentaries and is the founder and creative director of Agents of Ishq, India's popular website about sex, love, and desire.

Ayesha Kidwai is professor of linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University and an activist in the movements against neoliberal Hindutva's destruction of the public university.

Suryakant Waghmore is associate professor of sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is author of Civility against Caste (2013) and coeditor of Civility in Crisis (2020).

Ditilekha Sharma (he/they) is a trans masculine person who has been involved with queer, feminist, and student movements. Diti is a researcher who looks at academics and activism as informing each other intrinsically; their work focuses on gender, nationalism, queer politics, and inclusive education.

Vihaan Vee is a queer, feminist Ambedkarite trans man who has been involved with queer, feminist, and anticaste movements. He completed his master's in social work from the Tata Institute of Social Work.