Queering solidarity : South Asian diasporic activism and solidarity in US and UK racial justice struggles

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dc.contributor.author Bhardwaj, Maya
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-11T11:28:20Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-11T11:28:20Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description.abstract This article explores the linkages between queerness, racialisation, activism, and community care in the South Asian diaspora. It examines activism, organizing, and social movement work practiced by queer diasporic South Asians in the UK and the US. By understanding South Asian activist relationship to, and solidarity and partnership with, Black liberation activism, this article conceptualises a framing of queer South Asian diasporic solidarity. This solidarity is framed through contrasting articulations of joint struggle, allyship, and kinship in queer communities. To articulate this struggle, the article contrasts histories of South Asian racialisation, politicisation, and queerness in the UK and the US, and synthesises first-person activist accounts of modern-day queer South Asian activists in the diaspora. Finally, it argues that queer feminist South Asian activists in both countries are employing a model of queered solidarity with Black activists and Black liberation, though in differing forms in each country, that centres queer intimacies and anti-patriarchal modes of organising for liberation across queer communities of colour. en_US
dc.description.department Philosophy en_US
dc.description.librarian am2022 en_US
dc.description.uri http://genderforum.org en_US
dc.identifier.citation Bhardwaj, M. 2021, 'Queering solidarity : South Asian diasporic activism and solidarity in US and UK racial justice struggles', Gender Forum, vol. 79, pp. 117-142. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1613-1878‎
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/87623
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Universitat zu Koln en_US
dc.rights Article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. en_US
dc.subject Diaspora en_US
dc.subject South Asian cultural groups en_US
dc.subject Feminism en_US
dc.subject Racial justice en_US
dc.subject LGBTQ people en_US
dc.subject Political activism en_US
dc.subject Activists en_US
dc.subject Interpersonal relations en_US
dc.subject Patriarchy en_US
dc.subject Pandemics en_US
dc.subject Working class en_US
dc.subject Kinship en_US
dc.subject Capitalism en_US
dc.subject Coronaviruses en_US
dc.subject Asian people en_US
dc.subject White supremacy en_US
dc.subject Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) en_US
dc.subject COVID-19 pandemic en_US
dc.subject Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) en_US
dc.title Queering solidarity : South Asian diasporic activism and solidarity in US and UK racial justice struggles en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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