Queer Literature
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‘After Sappho’ reimagines the lives of queer artists and activists, from Sappho to Virginia Woolf
Selby Wynn Schwartz’s novel is not just an important re-writing or righting of herstory, or a new view on queer feminists in turn-of-the-century Europe.
Francesca Rendle-Short, The Conversation
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Want to read about queer teens saving the world or having a rom-com moment? Here are five books
These novels break the genre’s early mould of tragic endings and hardships to tell stories of hope.
Alex Henderson, The Conversation
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For a look at transgender spirituality through an African lens, read Akwaeke Emezi’s ‘Freshwater’
How Nigerian and African diaspora writers are speaking back to homophobia.
Aretha Phiri, The Conversation & Rocío Cobo-Piñero, The Conversation
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Opinion: Pakistan has learnt little from India and India has taken the worst lessons from Pakistan
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Watch: 75 musicians perform the entire song whose first stanza is India’s national anthem
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‘Mind your language’: Bar Council of India rebukes advocate Prashant Bhushan for ‘ridiculing’ SC
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Ramachandra Guha: At 75, India is free – but its citizens are still fighting for many rights
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Watch: Govinda dances again with Urmila Matondkar and Bhagyashree
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Michael Field, a 19th century poet with an elite readership, was created by a lesbian couple
Renewed interest in Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper shows that historical icons can be both trailblazers and incorrigibly flawed.
Sarah Parker, The Conversation
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It’s Pride Month, and here are five queer South Asian speculative stories to raise a toast
Science fiction and fantasy writing is no longer openly homophobic.
Mimi Mondal
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From then to now: Five queer women poets whose work must be read today (and every day)
Here, more than ever, the personal is political.
Shinjini Bose
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Watch: Govinda dances again with Urmila Matondkar and Bhagyashree
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Watch: This is how quickly a bear can climb a tree when under attack
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Watch: 75 musicians perform the entire song whose first stanza is India’s national anthem
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Watch: This animated short film based on Gulzar’s story captures heartbreaking tales of Partition
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‘Bread, job, freedom’: Taliban fire warning shots to disperse women protesting for rights in Kabul
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What is queer? A graphic anthology that will give you some answers
The new issue of the ‘Gaysi Zine’ explores visual stories that try to answer the question.
Shreya Ila Anasuya
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Gay literature is firmly out of the closet in India, and winning readers over
While legal and societal change is slow, literary championing of the LGBT life is forging ahead.
Urmi Chanda-Vaz