Queering Digital India

Rohit K. Dasgupta is Programme Director and Lecturer in Global Communication and Development at Loughborough University. He is the co-author of Social Media, Sexuality and Sexual Health Advocacy in Kolkata (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of Friendship as Social Justice Activism (Seagull/Chicago, 2017), Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art (Routledge, 2015) and Masculinity and its Challenges in India (McFarland, 2014). Debanuj DasGupta is Assistant Professor of Geography, Women’s Gender and Sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut. His research interests are broadly in the areas of feminist geography, transnational migration, international health and South Asia studies. He has published in Contemporary South Asia, Disability Studies Quarterly, SEXUALITIES, and the Scholar & Feminist (S&F Online). Debanuj is a renowned trainer in Gender and International Development, and he regularly writes on gender, sexuality and human rights for international development organisations.

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Queering Digital IndiaRohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj DasguptaPart I: Digital Performance and Politics2. Queering Digital Cultures: A Roundtable ConversationNiharika Banerjea, Debanuj Dasgupta, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Aniruddha Dutta, Radhika Gajjala, Amit S. Rai and Jack Harrison-Quintana3. Digital Closets: Postmillenial Representations of Queerness in Kapoor and Sons and AligarhRahul K. Gairola4. Cruising the Ephemeral Archives of Bangalore's Gay NightlifeKareem KhubchandaniPart II: Digital Activism(s) and Advocacy5. Digitally Untouched: Janana (In) Visibility and the Digital DivideIla Nagar6. Digital Outreach and Sexual Health Advocacy: SAATHII as a ResponseRohit K. Dasgupta7. The TV9 Sting Operation on PlanetRomeo: Absent Subjects, Digital Privacy and LGBTQ ActivismPawan SinghPart III: Digital Intimacies8. 'Bitch, Don't Be a Lesbian': Selfies and Same-Sex DesireSneha Krishnan 9. Disciplining the 'Delinquent': Situating Virtual Intimacies, Bodies, and Pleasures among Friendship Network of Young Men in Kolkata, IndiaDebanuj Dasgupta10. Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering Indian Citizen and National IdentityInshah MalikContributorsIndex

This collection gives voice to the identities, practices and cultures of LGBTQI people living in the world’s biggest democracy, interrogating their engagements and entanglements with digital communication technologies. It provides a critical response to the hegemony of digital scholarship and forces those of us in the West to look beyond our own digital backyards.