97 – New Routes through Queer South Asian Diaspora Studies
This double panel brings together new research in queer South Asian diaspora studies with an emphasis on political, cultural and creative forms of resistance and expression. We are particularly interested in:
• The emergence of transnational queer South Asian networks from the 1970s to the present day;
• The articulation of queer South Asian identities through/against queer and feminist vocabularies in North America and Europe;
• Creative forms of queer resistance and/or expression, especially in terms of gender, racialisation, caste, and class;
• Queer archives: methodologies for apprehending the queer South Asian diaspora (eg. oral history; ‘absences’ of material; new kinds of archives);
• ‘Decolonial’ approaches to queer diaspora studies;
• Queering the Brown Atlantic: new theoretical and historical routes through queer South Asian diasporas.