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Chicago transplant, now in San Diego. Literature Ph.D. student, working on South Asian/diasporic cultural studies, and transnational feminist and queer studies. Badu-listener. Chai-drinker.
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center: CGS 102: Selected Topics in Critical Gender Studies: Gender, Sexuality, and Colonialism →

ucsdcrossculturalcenter:

CGS 102: Selected Topics in Critical Gender Studies: Gender, Sexuality, and Colonialism
Instructor: Ashvin R. Kini
Summer Session II
Mondays and Wednesdays, 2-4:50

Through readings of a select number of literary, cinematic, and scholarly texts, this course will focus on the gender and sexual politics of colonialism and postcolonialism. Topics of discussion will include colonial masculinities and femininities, domesticity, sexual violence, labor, and queer sexualities. Particular emphasis will be placed on how postcolonial feminist and queer artists, activists, and scholars have imagined and theorized gender and sexual identities, culture, and decolonization.
 
Texts will include Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, Deepa Mehta’s Earth, and essays by Anne McClintock, M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Trinh Minh-Ha, Rosemary George, Gayatri Gopinath, Frantz Fanon, and Lisa Lowe.

shameless self-promotion. :)
"Of course, the need to explore the interconnections between different axes of differentiation and social divisions is not a once-for-all-time task. There are those who would find my call for the study of intersectionality as ‘old-hat’, the recitation of a ‘mantra’. I would remind them that mantras are designed for repetition precisely because each repetitive act is expected to construct new meanings. Mantric enunciation is an act of transformation, not ossification." - Avtar Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora

(Source: nerdball, via fuckyeahsouthasia)

lonsharim:

Rare pictures of Madhubala, one of Bollywood’s most iconic stars. Her acting, expressions and beauty seduced and mesmerized an entire nation. She still remains a benchmark for all aspiring actresses in Bollywood. 

Pictures were taken by photographer James Burke for Life Magazine in 1951 and are digitally available on the Life archive hosted by Google.

(via fuckyeahsouthasia)

mere-khwabon-mein:

Asha Bhosle - In Aankhon Ki Masti

Asha Bhosle is the greatest singer ever.

(Source: kadalkavithaigal, via fuckyeahsouthasia)

There’s A Boy I Know

hoitycoity:

bollywoodsuperstar: I’m so sad right now. We should be together.

Me: I know! Remember when we watched her debut videos at Blue Velvet and drank martinis in the middle of the day?

My best Whitney memories belong with Ash. They played 80’s/90’s hits on the TV at this bar off State St. and ‘How Will I know’ came on a lot. Remember Aretha’s face cameo? Just surface level remembrance right now, her voice always always makes me happy.

<3

"Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did. It means actively working for change, sometimes in the absence of any surety that change is coming. It means doing the unromantic and tedious work necessary to forge meaningful coalitions, and it means recognizing which coalitions are possible and which coalitions are not. It means knowing that coalition, like unity, means the coming together of whole, self-actualized human beings, focused and believing, not fragmented automatons marching to a prescribed step. It means fighting despair." - Audre Lorde, “Lessons from the 60s” (via wordsandsteel)

Shit White Girls Say to Brown Girls.

This one is pretty funny.

Jill Scott reads some poetry at the White House.

browncanada:

Arundhati Roy drops knowledge like nobody’s business.

From www.droppingknowledge.org

(via brownpeople)

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