...Omar Kasmani Abstract Futuring trans* is a deliberation on the emergence of transgender alongside khwajasara , both newer terms in Pakistan that acquire distinctly temporal agencies insofar as these untether individuals from difficult histories and offer new affective means for future making...

... interlocutors in Kasmani's study have distanced themselves from the identifier hijra , as the word has become increasingly pejorative in urban Pakistan. Kasmani discusses at length his observation of the turn to revive the Indo-Persian term khwajasara and the “promised” social mobility and affective capital...