Scholars have long been critical of development agendas where Global North organisations
develop aid programmes and resources to address inequalities in the Global South, which …

This article focuses on both describing legal developments pertaining to LGBTIQ persons in
Sri Lanka and interrogating the limits of how their legal status has been understood. It claims …

This paper aims to explore how and why a local conglomerate in Sri Lanka (Pride-H)
decided to introduce Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual (LGBT) inclusivity to their …

Within the public sphere of South Asian countries, prominent movements to formally
recognise gender diversity and decriminalise same-sex relations have had effects in Nepal …

This essay focuses on how Sinhala and English newspapers in Sri Lanka interpret and
refurbish lesbian identity and gender non-conforming identities using tropes of criminality …

The debates over the semantics and ontological “truth” of sexual subjectivity in South Asia
have coalesced at sites of sexual identity (eg lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and …

In early 2022, in the wake of the state collapse in Sri Lanka (due to a severe economic
meltdown with near-political anarchy), we observed an extraordinary ambience of ethnic …

This paper explores the representation of queer men's unequal sexual citizenship in Sri
Lanka in a Sri Lankan Anglophone play, focusing on its problematisation of an ambiguous …

This working note is centred on snippets of the journey of two Sri Lankan queer couples as
they negotiate the normative authoritarian regime of Sri Lankan state and society. Through …

Learning a new language requires exposure to novel cultures and societies, as their values,
traditions, customs and norms are key factors that influence a language (Premawardhena …