.... The hijra accounts from India, for instance, can be read as resisting the centrality of sex reassignment surgery as the narrative and epistemological hinge for écriture transsexuelle . If we take this seriously, the current historiographic distinction between transgender and transsexual is thrown...

..., with the “ hijra epistemologies” that forward an array of other textures for theorizing trans with less ontologizing pressure, like mythology, desire, addiction, or even fantasy. If trans studies can muster the courage to end its acquiescence to the emptiness of Western gender as the truth of the self...

... trajectories of gendered transition. In such epistemologies, the subject positions and practices of hijras and kothis can only linger on as an exotic, precarious species of gender variance, as remnants of archaic forms of gender liminality, or as afterthoughts tagged on as an et cetera to trans...

..., 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...

..., Nepal, and Pakistan. This article argues that the extant India-mediated focus on the hijra should not to be dismissed as a mere methodological slippage. Rather, the India-centricity in hijra studies works to circumscribe new epistemological and analytical possibilities in terms of how the hijras...

... on Indian hijras' Hindu beliefs and practices (Nanda 1999 ), 12 reflecting Hossain's ( 2018 : 321) critique of the “India-centricity in hijra studies [which] works to circumscribe new epistemological and analytical possibilities in terms of how the hijras are conceived and interpreted.” Gayatri...

... intelligible to some reading audiences. Finally, the terms gender variance and gender diversity may be used interchangeably. However, both terms are intended to challenge the rigid, essentialized, and fixed logics inherent in Western epistemologies that have constructed and contained gender within a binary...

... 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...

... of Hijras, Jankhas, and Academics .” In Sexual Nature/Sexual Culture , edited by Abramson Paul R. and Pinkerton Steven D. , 276 – 304 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Dutta Aniruddha , and Roy Raina . 2014 . “ Decolonizing Transgender in India: Some Reflections...

... prefix of crossing, or it can become relevant to trans people by focusing on the material heterogeneity of trans populations, histories, and epistemologies. The article sketches out some of the rich and exciting directions the latter inquiry could take. With reference to particularly generative proposals...

... for marginalized and heretofore unnamed subjects who do not fit the categorical by-products of dichotomizing epistemologies. The first two essays interrogate the porous meaning and significations of “Asia,” which traffics through the social mobilization of trans categories in contemporary South Asia. Shraddha...

... , the androginos , the mujercitos , the vestidas , the locas , the transsukupuolinen , the hijras —fall further and further from the global aperture of translatable intelligibility. Since its French-language publication in 2004, Barbara Cassin et al.’s mammoth and complex undertaking, titled European...

... Prevention .” Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 26 , no. 2 : 175 – 203 . Dutta Aniruddha . 2012 . “ An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis, and the Historical (Dis)continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in Eastern India .” Gender and History 24...

... 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 oppressors: NGOs, foreign funders...

... that characterize “assemblage” as Deleuze and Guattari describe it. Grounded in the in/between philosophical domains of ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it participates in the shifting nature of reality, knowledge production, and social practices. Rhizomatic in nature, trans studies in religion opposes the idea...

..., Lugones's concept of the “coloniality of gender” shows us how gender and sexual diversity are filtered through a colonizing, binary gaze into naturalized ideas of “sex” and “gender” to begin with. If we challenge the epistemology of binary gender, we can begin to “unthink” this double bind, which produces...

... category onto pasts in which that identity is anachronistic and onto places where that identity is foreign. We can certainly employ other terminology that is more historically and culturally specific, such as eonist , hijra , invert , travesti , and so forth. But, problematic as it may be, transgender...

... Mestiza ( 2012 ), she writes about being “mita’ y mita’,” half male and half female. Further, she sees her transformations in a decolonial framework. When she says things such as, “I know things older than Freud, older than gender,” she points out the limited Western epistemologies of self on which...

... as a “third gender” category that subsumes non-Western forms of personhood, such as Hijra from India, through linguistic acts of colonization ( Towle and Morgan 2006 : 672–73). Anthropologist Megan Davidson extends these critiques to the boundaries of movement building, saying: “Different constructions...

... been correlated, too, often through acts of epistemological violence, with past and present terms drawn from nonanglophone cultural traditions around the world (mahu, sworn virgin, female husband, bakla, eunuch, hijra, travesti, berdache, and so on). The perils and potentials of the “transgender...