Queer Literature
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From memoirs to fiction, from poetry to YA, queer literature offers more reading options than ever
A queer reader surveys the current crop of Indian and global LGBTQIA+ literature.
Saurabh Sharma
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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
Trending
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This holiday season, who’s ‘Uninvited’ from Goa?
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‘Finding a long-term solution’: More farmers turn to ‘natural farming’ amid climate change challenge
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Latest Manipur killings confirm long-dormant Meitei insurgency is seeing a revival
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Memoir: Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter recalls the family’s first few days in Rashtrapati Bhavan
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The Yemenese film about abortion that grabbing attention – and its Indian connections
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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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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
Video
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Watch: British PM Rishi Sunak, Dutch PM Mark Rutte get locked out of Sunak’s residence briefly
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Watch: Members of new K-Pop boy group Ampers&One cover ‘Chaleya’ song ‘Jawan’
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Watch: Huge audience sings along to ‘Shauq’ with singer Swanand Kirkire in Delhi
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‘You cannot invoke martyrs to ask for votes,’ says TV anchor. Panelist plays PM’s speech in response
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Watch: Fashion show turns Manchester street into runway for models in the rain
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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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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
The Reel
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The Yemenese film about abortion that grabbing attention – and its Indian connections
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Start the week with a film: ‘Somewhere’ is a sensitive look at an actor’s empty life
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Mining town-set film ‘Whispers of Fire and Water’ is an immersive experience
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In Ken Loach’s ‘The Old Oak’, a solidarity that transcends differences
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In animated film ‘The Siren’, a reminder that ‘democracy and peace are never eternal’