Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India

Kumar, Pushpesh

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“…Por lo tanto, cualquier cosa que perturbe el orden social y los límites establecidos en nuestra sociedad patriarcal es socialmente discriminada y vista con repulsión, aversión y miedo. Kumar (2021) describe lo abyecto como:…”

Section: Las Identidades De Las Mujeres Trans Abyectadasunclassified

La abyección y la intersección de las identidades de las mujeres trans: Examinando “hacer género” a través de las películas en malayalam Ardhanaari y Njan Marykutty

Varghese

Tanupriya

2023

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The non-confirmation to vexed societal gender norms places trans identities in an abjected state. Media, mainly cinema, plays an indispensable role in shaping, shunning, and promulgating such ideologies. To understand this discourse, the Malayalam films Ardhanaari (2015) and Njan Marykutty (2018) are taken to examine the question of “abjection”, a concept by Kristeva, and “doing gender”, by West and Zimmerman. The study argues that the abjection trans identities face forces them to perform their gender in accordance with cisnormative femininity. The study further argues that trans identities should embrace abjection and employ it as a political tool to disrupt the established hegemonic traditional gender structure and its definitions.

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Section: Las Identidades De Las Mujeres Trans Abyectadasunclassified

La abyección y la intersección de las identidades de las mujeres trans: Examinando “hacer género” a través de las películas en malayalam Ardhanaari y Njan Marykutty

Varghese

Tanupriya

2023

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“…Nonetheless, these legal crossroads remain particularly significant-as Bose (2014) reminds us-in fixing a timeline for the history of LGBTQ+ intimate practices and political struggles in India. At the same time, legal reforms alone have not dramatically changed the everyday lives of queer youth in India (Kumar, 2020). As a queer participant in Moitra et al's (2021) study put it, despite 'celebrating [the reading down of] 377, we are not free, our desires are still compartmentalized'.…”

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“…Till date, there has been little dialogue between critical sexuality studies and youth sociology in India. Barring a few notable exceptions (Boyce & Dasgupta, 2019;Horton, 2020;Kumar, 2022b;Mishra, 2020;Tonini, 2018), the concerns of sexual minority youth and issues of sexual citizenship in India have remained peripheral to Indian sociology, and consequently, theoretical work concerning structures of heteronormativity and sexual governance in India has been thin on the ground (John, 2008b;Kumar, 2020Kumar, , 2014. Some argue that a broader 'conspiracy of silence' concerning sexuality is at play in India, encompassing the spheres of politics, social movements, and academic scholarship, which has led scholars away from the material sites in which sexuality has for long been embedded and contested (John & Nair, 1998; also see Srivastava 2004).…”

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‘Let Us Hold Hands’: Lived Practices of Intimacy Among Gay Youth in Urban India

Mukherjee,

Pradhan

2023

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This article contributes to the growing literature on youth sexualities and intimacy, by centring the lived experiences of self-identified gay youth in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. It draws on interview narratives of thirteen gay youth between the ages of 19 and 26, living in Kolkata, to unpack two inter-locking ways in which these sexual minority youth co-construct intimacy within the urban space: (a) intimacy as verbal and non-verbal disclosure and (b) embodied intimacy. The findings underline how studying gay youth’s practices of intimacy offer a unique window into sexual politics and urban life in twenty-first-century India.

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“…In the past two decades, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual + (LGBTQIA+) rights landscape has been marked by increasing demands for equal rights by LGBTQIA+ activists, allies, scholars [1,2,3,4] and international human rights bodies [5,6,7]. There is a demand for ending discriminatory policies against LGBTQIA+ individuals and bringing a ban on the notorious conversion therapy, "an umbrella term to describe interventions of a wide-ranging nature, all of which are premised on the belief that a person's sexual orientation and gender identity, including gender expression, can and should be changed or suppressed when they do not fall under a so-called 'desirable norm'" [8].…”

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Evolving jurisprudence on conversion therapy: Reconsidering ethics in mental health systems

Kottai¹,

Ramprakash²

2023

IJME

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Since the Delhi High Court judgement (2009), reading down IPC 377 that criminalised homosexuality, the Indian judiciary has been at the forefront of invoking constitutional morality to uphold LGBTQIA+ rights. In contrast, the mainstream mental health systems have failed to uphold human rights and protect LGBTQIA+ people ethically, except for a few position statements. Though the Supreme Court directed the mental health fraternity to exercise utmost sensitivity to LGBTQIA+ issues, they have not risen to the occasion. The absence of gender affirmative guidelines and failure to put in place punitive action against those practising conversion therapies set apart Indian mental health systems, in stark contrast to international mental health associations. Here, we review landmark judgments and the actions of professional mental health bodies regarding LGBTQIA+ rights in India, from 2009 to 2022 — especially those regarding conversion therapies and the discriminatory medical curriculum — to examine the deepening crisis of public health ethics.

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Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India

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La abyección y la intersección de las identidades de las mujeres trans: Examinando “hacer género” a través de las películas en malayalam Ardhanaari y Njan Marykutty

La abyección y la intersección de las identidades de las mujeres trans: Examinando “hacer género” a través de las películas en malayalam Ardhanaari y Njan Marykutty

‘Let Us Hold Hands’: Lived Practices of Intimacy Among Gay Youth in Urban India

Evolving jurisprudence on conversion therapy: Reconsidering ethics in mental health systems

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