ISHQ Symposium / The Less Known Stories

ISHQ Symposium / The Less Known Stories

Olpo Jana Golpogulo/The Less Known Stories showcases the livelihood of trans – kothi, hijra, and gender variant people, training the lens on the lives of LGBTQ+ folks in marginalised spaces, far from metropolitan cities. In the light of the protests against the flawed...
Ratna Kapur / Precarious Desires and Human Rights

Ratna Kapur / Precarious Desires and Human Rights

In this talk the speaker interrogated the liberal assumption that human rights are the primary mechanism through which to secure freedom for disenfranchised, marginalized and stigmatized groups, and specifically LGBT people. She discussed how subjects come to be...
Dhiren Borisa / Desires via Dating Apps

Dhiren Borisa / Desires via Dating Apps

If our lives are stories, and our loves are lies, then our research must look at the tales, how they are built and who narrates them. Dhiren presented a weave of stories collated through my work with queer and non-dominant communities to highlight how in the context...
Farah Naqvi / The Colour of My Home

Farah Naqvi / The Colour of My Home

The talk, followed by a film screening, looked at the interface of marginalized identity and violent displacement in contemporary India. When a home, as both metaphor and memory, is lost, can it ever be rebuilt? And, can gender norms be bent and re-crafted? What...
Akhil Katyal / I want to 377 you so bad

Akhil Katyal / I want to 377 you so bad

Where do the city’s lovers find shelter? Where do they canoodle? How do the queers make this big bad city their own? What is the gender of Delhi streets? Where the hell is the ‘minuscule minority’? How does desire move about in public space? What does it mean to kiss...