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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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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 (2018) 5 (3): 321–331.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Adnan Hossain Abstract This essay advances a regional critique of the Indian-centric scholarship on hijra , a publicly institutionalized subculture of people typically assigned a male gender at birth who often sacrifice their genitals in return for spiritual power. The unexamined Indian hegemony...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 517–522.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Kareem Khubchandani Abstract This essay analyzes narrative scenes and aesthetic choices in Because We Have a Voice Too , an activist play staged at Bangalore Pride 2012. By linking the experiences of hijra s and transmen, the play enables solidarities across gender through an overarching critique...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 320–337.
Published: 01 August 2014
... .” Culture, Health, and Sexuality 13 , no. 1 : 89 – 100 . Cohen Lawrence . 1995 . “ The Pleasures of Castration: The Postoperative Status of Hijras, Jankhas, and Academics .” In Sexual Nature, Sexual Culture , ed. Abramson Paul R. and Pinkerton Steven D. , 276 – 304 . Chicago...
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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 (2021) 8 (1): 96–112.
Published: 01 February 2021
... khwajasara , both newer terms in Pakistan, acquire distinctly temporal agencies insofar as nominal gestures work to untether individuals from, or repair their relations with, difficult or less worthy pasts and presents (Ramberg 2016 ). Affective moves of un/renaming convey how the hijra as hijra in Pakistan...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (3): 297–314.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Claire Pamment Abstract Pakistani hijra / khwaja siras make up structured communities of feminine-identified gender-variant persons who have long but marginalized traditions of performing religious-cultural roles. Supreme Court rulings in 2009, promising rights to marginalized khwaja siras, have...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 311–320.
Published: 01 August 2018
... consequence of the deployment of the term transgender in the Indian context is the way in which it comes to stand in for almost all manifestations of gendered alterity, which includes geographically specific subcultures of hijras , jogtas and jogappas , aravanis and thirunangis , shiv-shakthis...
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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 (2018) 5 (3): 298–310.
Published: 01 August 2018
... performance associated with diverse communities of queer subjects caught between colonialism and globalization. Each hijra community, for instance, features distinct interlinked biological, cultural, religious, and geographical specificity, and these specificities become opaque—even invisible...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 158–164.
Published: 01 May 2016
... for resisting categorization and surveillance through practices of gender ambiguity, this essay argues for the potential of khwaja sira politics to produce radical subjectivity. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 khwaja sira hijra activism ambiguity resistance genderqueer feminism...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 42–47.
Published: 01 February 2023
... by describing the classed and discursive gaps between trans women and hijras in Hijras, Lovers, Brothers , on scales of both centuries and a few decades (see also Pyle 2018 ; Robinson 2020 ; and Driskill 2010 ). Thus, while expanding and deepening scholarship of alternative gender forms beyond the colonial...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (1): 148–159.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., Altaf ( 2008 ) compares hijras with male sex workers whereas Shaw and colleagues ( 2011 ) compare hijra sex workers with male sex workers in urban Pakistan. A 2008 study in Ho Chi Minh City that recruited men who have sex with men from popular sites for public or commercial sex compares “four...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 484–507.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... Finally, scholars have considered how the transnational circulation of transgender has affected local gender identities and expressions, with their specific meanings and traditional cultural, social, and economic responsibilities, of those such as the hijra (Chatterjee 2018 ; Dutta and Roy 2014...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 48–53.
Published: 01 February 2023
... colonialism, enslavement, extractivist industries, and the elimination or assimilation of hijras, two-spirit peoples, and others not captured by cis-binary logics. This requires a trans attentive theory of uneven development, the differential and globalized production of space to suit the needs of capital...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 333–356.
Published: 01 November 2016
... developments in how hijra performers and communities of practice in Mumbai have responded to the large-scale gay pride events taking place in India's major cities. Remaking themselves as the “dancing queens,” the hijra in Roy's account balance obligations to the kinship lineages of their hijra houses...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 559–571.
Published: 01 November 2014
... hijra ( Reddy 2005 ), or other groups, Thai cross-gender identifications are situational, highly differentiated, and complex in ways that defy academic differentiations between gender and sexuality. Part of this complexity reflects the fact that Thai genderscapes are thoroughly hybridized...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 54–58.
Published: 01 February 2023
... they position themselves before then? Why is transfemininity overrepresented in the colonial and anthropological archive, and transmasculinity relatively absent (if trans ought even be used here at all)? Outside a burgeoning body of excellent scholarship on the relation of transgender, kothi , and hijra...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 469–481.
Published: 01 November 2014
... distinction in his account of Because We Have a Voice Too , a play presented at Bangalore's Queer Pride celebrations in 2012. In this instance, street performers staged solidarity between hijra s and transmen who unite across lines of gender identity, class, and caste in opposition to their common...
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