Queering Valluvar’s Desire
As a Tamil queer man and someone who is no stranger to desire, I feel I have a rightful claim to the universality of Valluvar’s vision of love.
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Lotus Zine Vol 1 : Anthology of South Asian LGBT+ art and literature
Lotus Zine is an anthology of South Asian LGBT+ art and literature
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Ismat Chughtai’s Lihaf: A Short Note
“Marz, ya Lat”: in her Urdu short story Lihaf (The Quilt) written in the 1940s, Ismat Chugtai conceptualized same-sex desire as both medical condition and as excessive habit, notions that co-existed in the colonial India of her time.
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Orinam’s Quilt meeting Dec 30, 2012
Orinam’s Quilt, the reading group of Orinam, will meet at Zha Cafe, Adyar, on Dec 30, 2012. Bring your favorite queer-themed fiction/non-fiction/poem and share with the group.
