Digital Queer Cultures in India

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 Postcolonial residues and contemporary sketches......Page 22
2 Media, diversity and emergence of the cyberqueer in India......Page 32
3 Virtual intimacies on digital queer platforms......Page 52
4 ‘Imagined’ queer communities......Page 80
5 Effeminophobia, ‘straight-acting’ and global queering......Page 106
6 Dissident citizenship......Page 135
Conclusion: Pleasures and politics of researching new queer media......Page 165
Appendix 1 Research participants......Page 173
Appendix 2 Research methods......Page 175
Appendix 3 Participant handout......Page 184
Glossary......Page 187
Bibliography......Page 189
Index......Page 204