Lecture performance of »Forbidden Desire: How the British Stole India’s Queer Pasts & Queer Futures«

Drawing from a wide range of disciplines including feminist historiography, anthropology, histories of sexuality, South Asian queer theory, decolonial and subaltern studies, the history of medicine, legislative history, and informed by the author’s primary archival research, »Forbidden Desire« aims to undo the deleterious effects of British colonialism on India’s rich queer past.

Sindhu Rajasekaran is an author, academic & filmmaker. Her debut novel, Kaleidoscopic Reflections, was nominated for the Crossword Book Award. She has also written a collection of short stories, So I Let It Be, and the bestselling nonfiction book: Smashing the Patriarchy. Sindhu produced the award-winning feature film Ramanujan and is Curatrix at The Subjective Space.