Queer Intersectionality Voices, Struggles, and Identities in South Asia

Foreword - Kazim Ali

Introduction: Queer-ing South Asia

SECTION-I  Queer Embodiments: Identity, Politics and Ethics

1. Metaethics and Aesthetic Nuances of the Transexual: A Critical Re-reading of Select Mythological Narratives of Hinduism

- Ritu Ranjan Gogoi

2. The Kitsch and Aesthetic: Masculinity, Authenticity and Class in Crocodile Tears: New & Selected Stories

- Huzaifa Pandit and Takbeer Salati

3. Beyond the Binary: Sex Change and Gender Fluidity in Buddhist Narratives

- Drishti Kalra

4. Neo-Liberal Queer Subjectivities in the Bangladeshi Pedagogy: An Exploration of the Transgender Politics in Bangladesh

- Kazi Ashraf Uddin

5. Re-visioning Willful Subject: Mapping the Genealogies of Pakistani Trans Queer Identity/Sexuality in When the Moon was Ours

- Khamsa Qasim

6. Intimate Partner Violence: Its Abundance and Absence in Lesbian and Queer Storytelling

- Debolina Dey and Rajorshi Das

SECTION-II  Queer Imaginaries: Representations in Popular Culture and Digital Media

7. Code of Courage: Precarity, Queer Narratives and the Political field

- Seuty Sabur and Mashaekh Hassan

8. Examining LGBTQIA+ Lived Experiences in South Asia: A Computational Text Mining Analysis

- Kenneth Yang and Yowei Kang

9. Queer Movements and Politicisation in India: Navigating through Digital and Socio-cultural Histories

- Siddharth Dubey and Tanupriya

10. Desensitising the Indian Queer Body: Strategies of Queerbaiting in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema

- Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K Suresh

11. The Evolving Representations of Lesbian Identities: South Asian Queer Narratives in Post-2000 Bangla Cinema

- Srija Sanyal

SECTION-III  Queer Transgressions: Undoing Boundaries and Spaces

12. Transcending Spaces and Blurring Gender-ed Binaries: Re-configuring Queer Identity in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy

- Abhilash Kaushik

13. The Dilemma of Public Space VS Gender Neutral Toilet in India: A Case Study of #NoMoreHoldingMyPee Campaign of Assam

- Kaustav Padmapati

14. Queer Resonances in Haroon Khalid’s From Waris to Heer

- Dhurjjati Sarma

15. Redefining Desires: The Cultural Quandaries of Queerness in R. Raj Rao's The Boyfriend

- Dharmendra Kumar

16. Beyond the Gender Bounds: A Study of Infinite Gender Positions in The Pregnant King by Devdutt Pattanaik

- Fatima Syeda

17. Transformation and Liminality in Nepali Queer Literature : Reading The Land Where I Flee and Between Queens and the Cities

- Silba Rangsa Marak

18. Negotiating Identities: Queer Activism and Faith-based Resistance in Contemporary South Asia

- Jameel Akhtar

19. Masculine Vulnerability: Exploring Queer Experiences and Intersectionality in The Carpet Weaver

- Sanjana Chakraborty and Dhananjay Tripathi

In the Rubble of the Text, We Still Find Each Other: An Epilogue

- Moon Charania

Biography

Nizara Hazarika (Dr) is an Associate Professor of English in the PG Department of English, Sonapur College (Autonomous), Assam. Some of her areas of interest are Gender and Sexuality Studies, Women’s Writing etc. Her latest book is Reclaiming Narratives: Identity, environment and Resistance in Indian Literary Studies and Beyond, 2025. Her most recent articles include “At the Interstices of Disability and Gender: Narratibility, Disability and Motherhood in Geetali Borah’s Antaratam” (Springer Nature, 2025).

Namrata Pathak (Dr) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University. She has an MPhil and PhD from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her latest books are, Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond, 2022, and A Reader on Arun Sarma, 2024. Pathak was a Charles Wallace Fellow (India) at SOAS-University of London, 2023.