In this chapter, the author explores the cultural politics of the formation of the Kinnar Akhada
through which new idioms of hijra personhood oriented towards a largely upper-caste …

Two discourses merit discussion in popular culture today: society's attitude to alternate
gender identities of the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and whether forms of mass media should bear …

Conservative religious ideology is a key contributor to the ongoing violence of LGBTIQ2S+
exclusion and discrimination in Canada. This qualitative arts-based research project …

Historically, and in most parts of the world, sex, in the sense of a biological category, and
gender, which is more a cultural interpretation, had conformed to a conservative perception …

Contemporary findings in astronomy and physics are exploding all of the myths we have
lived with for thousands of years. From the discovery of black holes, the expansion of chaos …

Literature, has predominantly been a discourse of subjectivity and the palimpsestic
reiterations of its effects. A popular appellation for the transgender in India, the term 'hijra' …

This paper focuses on male to female transsexuals (Trans women) and makes an attempt to
interrogate the process of 'making of trans body'. What does it mean for transsexuals-'making …

The present paper takes into account life narratives of two transgender writers Manobi
Bandhopadhyay and Laxmi Narayan Tripathi and tells their untold stories from a …