{"id":11139,"date":"2017-03-15T21:04:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=11139"},"modified":"2019-04-04T23:53:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:23:11","slug":"interview-queer-feminists-ritu-jaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/interview-queer-feminists-ritu-jaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: A Conversation on the Personal and the Political with Queer Feminists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi-based queer feminist activists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma recorded a conversation they had about their views around marriage. While both women maintain their stances of critique towards the institution of marriage, what they agree upon and investigate as their chat progresses is that marriage has a pull that even its staunchest opponents will have to acknowledge and attempt to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Rituparna and Jaya on their personal connections to marriage:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XmJxeW4srao?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zx-Wvrp19mc?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The difference between friends and lovers, and the fantasy around the idea of marriage:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lPmMejx3ZVI?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The contradictions between feminist opposition to and the inexplicable draw of marriage:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sjWnYhhx1vk?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i>Talking about marriage and sex in the queer context:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fFIhvvX1FrY?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i>And listen to the entire conversation:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yRm40OslC-c?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Cover image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshdelacruz.tk\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Delacruz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi-based queer feminist activists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma recorded a conversation they had about their views around marriage. While both women maintain their stances of critique towards the institution of marriage, what they agree upon and investigate as their chat progresses is that marriage has a pull that even its staunchest opponents will have to acknowledge and attempt to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":11147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,1139],"tags":[121,1017,1001,1131,593,979],"class_list":{"0":"post-11139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-interview","9":"category-marriage-and-sexuality","10":"tag-feminism","11":"tag-jaya-sharma","12":"tag-lgbtqia","13":"tag-marriage-and-sexuality","14":"tag-psychoanalysis","15":"tag-rituparna-borah"},"menu_order":983,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11148,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139\/revisions\/11148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}