{"id":1289,"date":"2014-01-01T23:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=1289"},"modified":"2019-09-05T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T05:33:22","slug":"brushstrokes-sketches-georgina-maddox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-sketches-georgina-maddox\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;1299&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Khaki dots the railway station as they try to look official, lolling in their plastic chairs.<br \/>\n<strong>Routine checking they say, just in case I was carrying any bombs in my rucksack.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the ladies compartment they ask me if I&#8217;m a boy or a girl.They collared my lower, for her short haircut wasn&#8217;t in keeping with their idea of womanhood.<br \/>\nThey are the upholders of law and order&#8230; the implements to censure homosexual love.<br \/>\nYet I see them leaning into each other soft and vulnerable in slumber.<br \/>\nPressed against each other turning hard, khaki trouser against khaki trouser,in the late-night ladies railway coach, breathing into each other&#8217;s necks like virgin boy scouts.<br \/>\nThey hold hands as they traipse merrily over their domain, handcuffs at the ready to\u00a0imprison the\u00a0<i>hijra<\/i>\u00a0who steps out of line tonight.<br \/>\nTheir smiles are invincible.<br \/>\nHave they heard of the word&#8230;. homosocial?<\/p>\n<p>Previously published in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/asiasrc\/plspk\/2006_4\/brushstrokes.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">print version of InPlainspeak<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;1299&#8242;] Khaki dots the railway station as they try to look official, lolling in their plastic chairs. Routine checking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":11280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,87],"tags":[60,1607,84,25,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-1289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-queer-rights","10":"tag-law","11":"tag-lgbtq-desire","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-sexualities","14":"tag-transgender"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","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\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14016,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/14016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}