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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 320–337.
Published: 01 August 2014
... communities in eastern India. As we shall argue, the attempted universalization of transgender as a transnational “umbrella term” by the development (nongovernmental) sector, the state, and their funders tends to subsume South Asian discourses and practices of gender/sexual variance as merely “local...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 311–320.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Shraddha Chatterjee Abstract A larger game is at play with respect to the field of transgender subjectivities in India that goes beyond gender or sexuality, and enters the arena of contested cultures and historical erasures. It can be hypothesized that a contemporary transgender subject in India...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 412–432.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Jeff Roy Abstract This article analyzes discourses and performance practices in India's hijra and transgender communities through a comparison of badhai s (ritualistic acoustic music and dance performed by hijra s) and dances from the professional transgender-led troupe known as the Dancing Queens...
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in Translating Hijra into Transgender: Performance and Pehchān in India's Trans- Hijra Communities
> TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 2. Theatrical dance by Abhina and Mangala Aher of the Dancing Queens at Godrej India Culture Lab; photos by Nathan Sigman, November 18, 2015
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 10–15.
Published: 01 February 2023
... and practices in canonical trans studies in the United States, the author argues that turning our attention to these modes of selfhood, identity, and embodiment, such as conceived within hijra cultures in India, would be useful in lending productive directions for future work within the field. The author...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 321–331.
Published: 01 August 2018
... in hijra studies works to reify not only hijra but also India. Drawing on ethnographic research in Bangladesh, this essay offers preliminary reflections on the need to adopt a regional approach in place of a national frame in studies of gender and sexuality, arguing that hijra subjectivities...
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in Translating Hijra into Transgender: Performance and Pehchān in India's Trans- Hijra Communities
> TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 1. Performance by Abhina Aher of the Dancing Queens at the Third National Hijra Habba , sponsored by Project Pehchān and India HIV/AIDS Alliance, Delhi; still from video footage captured by the author, June 30, 2015
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 359–363.
Published: 01 May 2015
... the official and the illicit dimensions of India's performing arts as two sides of the same coin.” Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance will be of interest to scholars in transgender studies because it necessarily engages the ways gender itself is constituted and takes on meaning. Indeed, contestation over...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 517–522.
Published: 01 November 2014
... comedically straddling an inflatable helicopter. He shamelessly flirts with her, regaling her with his accomplishments; this draws the audience's attention to the canned scripts and affective performances necessary to court foreign funding, as well as the legacy of paternalism that informs India's nonprofit...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (2): 265–269.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Claire Pamment Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c. 1850–1900 . Jessica Hinchy . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . 305 pp. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Jessica Hinchy's Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (3): 279–282.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., recent events involving Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, a self-identified transgender woman as well as a member of the “third gender” hijra community in India, a widely known former reality TV star and aspiring politician who is the leader of a religious movement called the Kinnar Akhada, which comprises...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (1): 96–112.
Published: 01 February 2021
... khadra , where interlocutors prefer to use it. 2. On transgender as a sign of upward mobility, see Chatterjee 2018 . 3. I repurpose Lucinda Ramberg's ( 2016 ) articulation of backward futures among Devadasis as they move from Dalit pasts to Buddhist futures in South India. 4...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 488–500.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., and the larger South Asian diasporic community in the UK. They were enraged at the suppression of the protests against the exclusionary citizenship bill proposed (currently, passed) in India, which, for the first time in Indian history, makes religion a criterion for citizenship, thus moving India toward...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (3): 297–314.
Published: 01 August 2019
... . “ Problems of She Males .” Dunya TV, January 30. YouTube video, 10:23, posted February 6. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOKeD_i5_8w . Dutta Aniruddha . 2013 . “ Legible Identities and Legitimate Citizens: The Globalization of Transgender and Subjects of HIV-Aids Prevention in Eastern India...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (4): 539–543.
Published: 01 November 2015
... For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India ( 2009 ), in deep if sometimes indirect dialog with such roughly contemporaneous works of the “archival turn” as Diana Taylor's The Archive and the Repertoire ( 2003 ), Carolyn Steedman's Dust: The Archive and Cultural History ( 2002...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 298–310.
Published: 01 August 2018
... Chatterjee's essay, “Transgender Shifts: Notes on Resignification of Gender and Sexuality in India,” addresses one especially pressing debate in transnational queer studies: as Western categorizations of gender and sexuality—including the very concept “transgender”—have come to determine locally situated...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 210–212.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., sacrifice, and defiance. In a comparative research project on three categories of abjected women in India and Indonesia (widows/divorced women, sex workers, and lesbians; some individuals were included who identified as transgender and were in a same-sex relationship), we found that far from being...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (1): 148–159.
Published: 01 February 2015
... and experiences into one term that is supposed to capture them all. The hijra category in Pakistan and India, for example, long precedes the late twentieth-century category of transgender and has operated in contexts that others have argued are quite different from those of the Western gender binary (see...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–67.
Published: 01 May 2014
... be no cross-dressing. Indeed, while cross-dressing has a long history going back to ancient times — for example, in Rome and India ( Bullough and Bullough 1993 : 3–112) — it has always been present and has gone through different levels of prohibition ( Stryker 2008 : 17–18). While some cultures, including...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (3): 455–461.
Published: 01 August 2019
... in Dublin to his ordination as a novice Buddhist monk in India. Most of these chapters detail life as a ship's doctor with various ships, and his worldwide travels. Again, as in the first section, the rather straightforward and sometimes self-indulgent narrative is peppered with curious insights...
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