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Link to link: The 'Lesbian Eroticverse' of personal narratives and Indian Digital Platforms
Arunima Theraja1, Charul Mehndiratta1
1Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Ashoka University.
Abstract:
Following the 2000s, India witnessed an emergence of cyber-queer spaces in the form of several online multimedia platforms, social media networking and dating sites which explored the intersections of gender and sexuality. Through an analysis of the queer 'I' in digital personal narratives by queer AFAB individuals on multimedia platforms like Agents of Ishq (AOI) and Point of View (POV), we argue that both the design of these websites and this written personal history contain a self-affirming erotic power. This power is enmeshed with and informed by an Indian lesbian political history which demands that we rethink our relationship with the challenges of lesbian desire, intersectionality, caste subalternity and the politics of inclusion both online and offline.
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