Queer Intersectionality

Nizara Hazarika (Dr) is an Associate Professor of English in the PG Department of English, Sonapur College (Autonomous), Assam. Some of her areas of interest are Gender and Sexuality Studies, Women’s Writing etc. Her latest book is Reclaiming Narratives: Identity, environment and Resistance in Indian Literary Studies and Beyond, 2025. Her most recent articles include “At the Interstices of Disability and Gender: Narratibility, Disability and Motherhood in Geetali Borah’s Antaratam” (Springer Nature, 2025).Namrata Pathak (Dr) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University. She has an MPhil and PhD from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her latest books are, Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond, 2022, and A Reader on Arun Sarma, 2024. Pathak was a Charles Wallace Fellow (India) at SOAS-University of London, 2023.

• Introduction: Queer-ing South Asia SECTION-I Queer Embodiments: Identity, Politics and Ethics 1. Metaethics and Aesthetic Nuances of the Transexual Body – Radicalizing Gender Politics and Heteronormativity: A Critical Re-reading of Select Mythological Narratives of Hinduism 2. The Kitsch and Aesthetic: Masculinity, Authenticity and Class in Crocodile Tears 3. Beyond the Binary: Sex Change and Gender Conformity and Non- Conformity in Buddhist Narratives 4. Neo-Liberal Queer Subjectivities in the Bangladeshi Pedagogy: An Exploration of the Transgender Politics in Bangladesh 5. Re-visioning Willful Subject: Mapping the Genealogies of Pakistani Trans Queer Identity/Sexuality in When The Moon Was Ours 6. Queer Intimate Partner Violence: Its Abundance and Absence in Lesbian Storytelling SECTION-II Queer Imaginaries: Representations in Popular Culture and Digital Media 7. Code of Courage: Exploring Queer Narratives in the Digital Closet and Precarity within the Political Field 8. Examining LGBTQIA+ Living Experiences in South Asia: A Computational Text Mining Analysis 9. Queer Movements and Politicization in India: Navigating through Digital and Socio-cultural Histories 10. Desensitizing the Indian Queer Body: Queerbaiting in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema 11. Evolution of Queer Femininities in Bangla Cinema: A Discussion within South Asian Context SECTION-III Queer Transgressions: Undoing Boundaries and Spaces 12. Transcending Spaces and Blurring Gender-ed Binaries: Re-configuring Queer Identity in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy 13. The Dilemma of Public Space VS Gender Neutral Toilet in India: A Case Study of #NoMoreHoldingMyPee Campaign of Assam 14. Queer Resonances in Haroon Khalid’s From Waris to Heer 15. Redefining Desires: The Cultural Quandaries of Queerness in R. Raj Rao's Boyfriend 16. Beyond the Gender Bounds: A Study of Infinite Gender Positions in The Pregnant King by Devdutt Pattanaik 17. Transformation and Liminality in Nepali Queer Literature : Reading The Land Where I Flee and Between Queens and Cities 18. Challenges at the Crossroads: A Contemporary Analysis of Queer Activism and Religious Resistance in South Asia 19. Masculine Vulnerability: Exploring Queer Experiences and Intersectionality in South Asian Narrative in The Carpet Weaver In the Rubble of the Text, We Still Find Each Other: An Epilogue