Section 377
A photo of Anjali Gopalan, who has short black and gray hair and dark eyes. Anjali is smiling, wearing a light pink dupatta.
Lost & Found is about two strangers trying to steal a moment of passion while looking for their own space…
[slideshow_deploy id=’1125′] Global Day of Rage Against Section 377. December 15, 2013. New Delhi, India. What: Section 377 of Indian Penal…
Haiku for the Disenfranchised: An overcooked symphony the angry voices scream ‘377. Unnatural Offences – Whoever voluntarily…
Rituparna Borah, a queer feminist activist, and a member of Nirantar, Centre for Gender and Education, India sat down with Jasmine George…
The Supreme Court’s verdict on Section 377 will not make a difference to my life with my “roommate” but will…
JG: As a founder member of The Alternative Law Forum (ALF) you have engaged with conventional law and at the…
Post the historic Naz Foundation judgment of the Delhi High Court in July 2009, a prominent English news magazine carried…
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.
Any desire, not necessarily or narrowly sexual, but perhaps related to sexuality, such as independence, equality, gender role-bending, controlling your own finances, eating the food you’d like to eat as opposed to the food your spouse desires, wearing the clothes you’d like to wear, birth control, choosing to have or not to have children … any of these desires would have only that importance that the individual concerned is able to apportion to it.
In an e-mail conversation with TARSHI, Alok Vaid-Menon talks about both performativity and poetic performance.