TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dhall,Pawan
TI  - Queer potli : : memories, imaginations and re-imaginations of urban queer spaces in India 
SN  - 9788193318935 (pbk.)
U1  - 823 QUE 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Mumbai
PB  - Queer Ink
KW  - Queer struggle
KW  - Fiction
N1  - Table of Contents:

Paramita Banerjee: Cityscapes: A Journey from Calcutta to Kolkata

Ashish Sawhny: Those Silver Shorts

Pawan Dhal : Interview with Madhuja Nandi, Trans Woman and LGBT Activist: Queer Stories in (of) Barasat Local

Bindumadhav Khire: Layers of the Urban

Sonali Gulati: Place of Safe Landing

Michiel Baas: The Ideal Male Body: Bodybuilding, Fitness, and Urban Space

Rudra Kishore Mandal: Spaced Out and the book cover art

Rajib Chocroborty: Durga

Sachin Jain: Not His Master’s Voice

Aniruddha Dutta: Undoing the Metronormative: Urban–Rural Exchange within LGBT Communities in Eastern India

Sayan Bhattacharya: On the Metro: Reimagining Intimacies and Desires in the Times of Supermodernity

Pawan Singh: Far from a Minuscule Minority: The Online Worlds of Indian Queer Men

The Editor, Pawan Dhall, has been engaged with queer community mobilization in eastern and other parts of India since the early 1990s. He was a founder member of Counsel Club (1993–2002) and Pravartak (1991–92, 1993–2000), among the first queer support forums and publications in India. He has been a regular contributor to queer-themed writings and is currently associated with Varta Trust, a gender and sexuality publishing and advocacy initiative. (less)
N2  - The Indian queer scenario and its attendant movement for the right to be different and yet equal is made up of hundreds and thousands of behind-the-scene stories of push and pull – a struggle for spaces that offer a boost for self-esteem, respect, security, and the potential to be radical.

These spaces can be visualized through several prisms as this anthology attempts in a small way—spaces through time and travel, spaces of urban aspirations and anxieties, queer art spaces, and queerscapes of difference and resistance.

In the end, each story of queer struggle is about efforts that have contributed to where we are today or where we will be tomorrow as individuals, communities, and movements. The writings and creations in this anthology are but very few of these stories or even about these stories—like shells or pebbles on a sea shore of a grand narrative. Have your pick!
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