Queering as a Way of Life
हम धीरे-धीरे अपनी शर्म, असहजता, और ‘हेटेरोनॉर्मेटिव’ मानसिकता से ऊपर उठने लगे ऐसी कई सारी कृतियों का विश्लेषण करते हुए, जो न तो वात्स्यायन का ‘कामसूत्र’ थे और न ही यौनिकता पर फ़ूको की समीक्षा।
पूरे देश में ऐसे कई क्वीयर लोग होंगे जो अपनी ‘मातृभाषा’ में अपनी क्वीयर पहचान को एक नाम देने में नाकामयाब रहे हैं।
To be a gentle / friendship breaker for S. To be // a candle-lit confetti apology for S.
Sexuality makes me think of an erotic adventure. Something that helps us be alive to the world around us, and to life around us.
If you’ve got a body, in which you’re going to negotiate this life, you have to know how it works.
How did isolation work for those of us who are already quarantined in perpetuity by the cis-heteronormative gaze?
Queerness is a free-flowing identity that embraces anyone, including young children, who step off the assigned binary path.
Queering is not about being queer but about doing queer – about going beyond binaries of gender and sexuality, questioning accepted perspectives, and challenging and upending normative ways of being in the world.
Like failure, longing is not interested in happy endings – whether of straight or non-heterosexual relations.
My identity unfolded slowly during my postgraduate media studies course, where I was exposed to peers from different socio-economic backgrounds.