Rohini Banerjee

समीक्षा: रेनबो रौवेल के उपन्यास फैनगर्ल में फैनडम का समस्यात्मक प्रदर्शन
उपन्यास 'फैनगर्ल' का पुस्तक आवरण

कैथ के किरदार और उसके जीवन को दिखाया जाना वास्तव में उन अनगिनत फैनगर्ल्स के प्रति अन्याय ही कहा जाएगा जो एक फैन के रूप में अपनी पहचान को अपने वास्तविक सामाजिक और यौनिक जीवन व रुझानों पर कभी भी हावी नहीं होने देती।

By Rohini Banerjee
April 1, 2022
समीक्षा: रेनबो रौवेल के उपन्यास फैनगर्ल में फैनडम का समस्यात्मक प्रदर्शन
Of ‘Kinkfests’ And Forbidden Fantasies: The Subversive Potential of Erotic Fanfiction

This article was originally published here. It is a summer night in 2010 and my parents are asleep in the…

By Rohini Banerjee
January 3, 2022
Of ‘Kinkfests’ And Forbidden Fantasies: The Subversive Potential of Erotic Fanfiction
Review: Rainbow Rowell’s ‘Fangirl’, and Everything it Gets Wrong About Fandom
उपन्यास 'फैनगर्ल' का पुस्तक आवरण

With the shifting nature of perceptions around fandom, the discourse around Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl has witnessed an interesting shift. While earlier, the book found almost unanimous acceptance, in recent times, it has completely faded into irrelevance.

By Rohini Banerjee
November 1, 2021
Review: Rainbow Rowell’s ‘Fangirl’, and Everything it Gets Wrong About Fandom
Media and the Power of Responsible Representation
Abstract art, coloured in shades of olive green, black, peach, pink, yellow, orange, and purple. It appears to show two silhouettes, to the left are distinct parts of a woman's face and to the right a darker silhouette looking at these parts.

It is the winter of 2013, and my father and I are sitting at an awkward distance from each other…

By Rohini Banerjee
June 15, 2021
Media and the Power of Responsible Representation
मीडिया और दायित्वपूर्ण चित्रण 

यह बात 2013 की सर्दियों के समय की है। एक शाम मैं और मेरे पिता, घर की बैठक में सोफ़े…

By Rohini Banerjee
June 5, 2021
मीडिया और दायित्वपूर्ण चित्रण 
BLOSSOMING INTO A GARDEN: SPIRITUALITY, SEXUALITY AND ALL-CONSUMING QUEER LOVE IN ‘PUU’
‘Puu’ webcomic

Puu, an episodic comic (consisting of 92 serialised episodes) created in 2016 by Nabigal-Nayagam Haider Ali – going by Nabi online – is woven together with vast, expansive threads of similar intense spiritual moments and reflections on devotion, faith, and love.

By Rohini Banerjee
January 4, 2021
BLOSSOMING INTO A GARDEN: SPIRITUALITY, SEXUALITY AND ALL-CONSUMING QUEER LOVE IN ‘PUU’
Blossoming Into A Garden: Spirituality, Sexuality and All-Consuming Queer Love in ‘Puu’
Cover image of 'Puu', showing two queer people kissing

Puu, an episodic comic (consisting of 92 serialised episodes) created in 2016 by Nabigal-Nayagam Haider Ali – going by Nabi online – is woven together with vast, expansive threads of similar intense spiritual moments and reflections on devotion, faith, and love.

By Rohini Banerjee
November 15, 2019
Blossoming Into A Garden: Spirituality, Sexuality and All-Consuming Queer Love in ‘Puu’
Of ‘Kinkfests’ And Forbidden Fantasies: The Subversive Potential of Erotic Fanfiction
Still from the popular show Supernatural

In a society where queer sexuality had been demonised in not just mainstream fiction but also mainstream culture, the erotic fanfiction that emerged out of kinkfests became an important source of queer sex-positivity.

By Rohini Banerjee
July 15, 2019
Of ‘Kinkfests’ And Forbidden Fantasies: The Subversive Potential of Erotic Fanfiction
Queer Fanfiction and the Possibility of Queer Happy Endings
fanart of harry and draco from harry potter, reimagined as a queer couple

Fanfiction was more than just writing your own stories about the characters or the setting of your favourite book or TV show; it was a questioning of the dominant mainstream pop culture narrative as a whole.

By Rohini Banerjee
December 15, 2018
Queer Fanfiction and the Possibility of Queer Happy Endings
Media and the Power of Responsible Representation
illustration of a distorted face, painted in pinks and yellows

It is the winter of 2013, and my father and I are sitting at an awkward distance from each other on the living room couch, our eyes trained on the television set as a popular prime time news debate discusses a subject we have never before talked to each other about – homosexuality. It is only a few days since Section 377 has been reinstated by the Supreme Court, and the television and print media bombards us with discussion after discussion on ‘alternate’ sexualities and LGBTQ rights.

By Rohini Banerjee
July 2, 2018
Media and the Power of Responsible Representation
Paromitar Ek Din: Recalling Memories of Sexual Solidarity
A still from ‘Paromitar Ek Din’, showing actors Rituparna Chatterjee and Aparna Sen leaning against each other.

Paromitar Ek Din is a study in female subjectivity – it is essentially a woman telling the story (or rather, recollecting the story) of another woman, and reflecting upon themes of sexuality, oppression, and gender-based discrimination.

By Rohini Banerjee
April 2, 2018
Paromitar Ek Din: Recalling Memories of Sexual Solidarity