Asia Excerpts from a voter’s notebook: Manifesto destiny May 7, 2019 0 Written by Swarna Rajagopalan In the first week of April 2019, the Congress Party released a manifesto it had spent months preparing in consultation with…
Colonialism Moments of hope from the Section 377 ruling September 6, 2018 0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed History has been made. In four different, but concurrent, opinions, the Supreme Court of India has repealed IPC Section 377, decriminalising…
India India’s Section 377 Hearings: Reasons for Hope as Another Wait Begins July 24, 2018 2 By Sanjana Govil On Tuesday July 17th, Chief Justice Dipak Misra and four other Supreme Court judges concluded hearings on the constitutionality of Section 377,…
Identity politics Academic Theory and Practice – The Queer Body in Online Discourse July 20, 2018 0 Written by Ping-Hsuan Wang. Taiwan LGBT Pride, held on the last Saturday in October in Taipei, has been growing rapidly in the past decade. Last year,…
India Why the Centre wants Supreme Court to stick only to sexual rights of LGBTQ community July 19, 2018 0 Written by Sruthisagar Yamunan The Centre on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to confine itself to the question of sexual rights in the cases relating to…
China Chinese Cosmopolitanism and the Risk to Queer Identity July 17, 2018 0 The author requested to remain anonymous. During the release tour of his new book Queer Comrades, University of Nottingham academic Hongwei Bao was on the…
Identity politics Toward A Critical Study of Racialization – Notes from West Asia July 16, 2018 0 Written by Adriana Ahmad Qubaia-ova. Lebanon is quickly becoming a major site for the production of knowledge on gender and sexuality in the Middle East…
LGBT Rights Censoring ‘Rainbow’ in China June 1, 2018 0 Written by Jamie J. Zhao During China’s airing of the international singing competition Eurovision on 9 May 2018, scenes featuring a gay romance and a…
Activism The difficult path of Queerness in the Age of the Postcolonial April 19, 2018 0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The South Asian subcontinent saw a renewed interest in engaging with colonial history in 2017, as India and Pakistan celebrated 70…
LGBTQ The ‘Marriage’ Imagination of the Queer Communities in Asia February 15, 2018 1 Written by Hongwei Bao. With same-sex marriages soon to be legalised in Taiwan, which has instantly triggered the imagination of ‘marriage’ in Asia’s queer communities,…
