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

dc.contributor.authorBhardwaj, Maya
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-11T11:28:20Z
dc.date.available2022-10-11T11:28:20Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis 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.departmentPhilosophyen_US
dc.description.librarianam2022en_US
dc.description.urihttp://genderforum.orgen_US
dc.identifier.citationBhardwaj, 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.issn1613-1878‎
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/87623
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversitat zu Kolnen_US
dc.rightsArticle is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.en_US
dc.subjectDiasporaen_US
dc.subjectSouth Asian cultural groupsen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectRacial justiceen_US
dc.subjectLGBTQ peopleen_US
dc.subjectPolitical activismen_US
dc.subjectActivistsen_US
dc.subjectInterpersonal relationsen_US
dc.subjectPatriarchyen_US
dc.subjectPandemicsen_US
dc.subjectWorking classen_US
dc.subjectKinshipen_US
dc.subjectCapitalismen_US
dc.subjectCoronavirusesen_US
dc.subjectAsian peopleen_US
dc.subjectWhite supremacyen_US
dc.subjectCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)en_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19 pandemicen_US
dc.subjectLesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ)en_US
dc.titleQueering solidarity : South Asian diasporic activism and solidarity in US and UK racial justice strugglesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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