Brian A Horton
Biographic Data
| ID | 139201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian A Horton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian A |
| FAMILY NAME | Horton |
| SIGNATURE | HORTON B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5635-7821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Between the sheets: The queer sociality of Bombay zines
With a particular focus on zines produced in Bombay from the 1990s to 2000s, this essay draws on and thinks with the masala that flavored the pages of three prominent Bombay queer zines: Bombay Dost, Scripts and Gaysi Zine. Through close readings of specific volumes, I demonstrate that zines constitute not only an overlooked archive of queer and trans cultures in India but have also been crucial to facilitating ‘queer sociality’ (Rodríguez 2011) …
Conversations Follow: Featuring Books by Omar Kasmani, Kareem Khubchandani and Elliot Powell
Sissy Lessons
What are nightlife's object lessons about power, desire, and the frictions of gender, sexuality, race, class, and caste in India and in the diaspora? What can nightlife's unwritten rules for bodily comportment teach us about queerness politics? What do the movements on the dance floor reveal about the mobilities and constraints of “bodies and differences across borders and scales (6)?” Ishtyle, as Kareem Khubchandani argues, names “South Asians’ …
Future Entanglements: Beauty, Fashion , and (Anti-)Black Aesthetics in India
Research Article| February 01 2021 Future Entanglements: Beauty, Fashion, and (Anti-)Black Aesthetics in India Brian A. Horton Brian A. Horton Brian A. Horton is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Brian is currently working on a book project titled “Shimmers of the Fabulous: A Speculative Ethnography of Queer India(s).” Through queer performance, dress, gesture, and speech, he examines unruly, ephemer…
Fashioning Fabulation: Dress, Gesture and the Queer Aesthetics of Mumbai Pride
India’s ongoing legal movement to decriminalise ‘gay sex’ has been witness to the simultaneous sanitisation of queer spaces. From Pride parades declaring ‘no nanga naach, no flamboyance’ to quotidian policing of excessive dress and gestures, there is a growing emphasis on respectability that stages queerness in the private rather than the public domain. The good homosexual subject is increasingly at odds with public gestures, performances and dre…
What’s so ‘queer’ about coming out? Silent queers and theorizing kinship agonistically in Mumbai
What kinds of creative potential exist in silence – in not coming out? This ethnographic study takes the strategic silences that queer persons in Mumbai deploy regarding ‘coming out’ as productive for theorizing the connections between kinship and queerness. While some strands of queer critique conceptualize the relationship between kinship and queerness antagonistically, the author deploys the concept of agonistic intimacy outlined in Singh’s Po…
The Queer Turn in South Asian Studies? or “That’s Over & Done Queen, On to the Next”
Research Article| October 01 2018 The Queer Turn in South Asian Studies? or “That’s Over & Done Queen, On to the Next” Brian A. Horton Brian A. Horton Brian A. Horton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Horton’s research explores several intersecting sites of inquiry among queer anthropology, queer theory and the anthropology of India: popular culture, politics and ethics, state power, pleasure, fun, and…
Queer activism in India: A story in the anthropology of ethicsby Dave, Naisargi N
Fashioning Fabulation: Dress, Gesture and the Queer Aesthetics of Mumbai Pride
India’s ongoing legal movement to decriminalise ‘gay sex’ has been witness to the simultaneous sanitisation of queer spaces. From Pride parades declaring ‘no nanga naach, no flamboyance’ to quotidian policing of excessive dress and gestures, there is a growing emphasis on respectability that stages queerness in the private rather than the public domain. The good homosexual subject is increasingly at odds with public gestures, performances and dre…
The Queer Turn in South Asian Studies? or “That’s Over & Done Queen, On to the Next”
Research Article| October 01 2018 The Queer Turn in South Asian Studies? or “That’s Over & Done Queen, On to the Next” Brian A. Horton Brian A. Horton Brian A. Horton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Horton’s research explores several intersecting sites of inquiry among queer anthropology, queer theory and the anthropology of India: popular culture, politics and ethics, state power, pleasure, fun, and…
Between the sheets: The queer sociality of Bombay zines
With a particular focus on zines produced in Bombay from the 1990s to 2000s, this essay draws on and thinks with the masala that flavored the pages of three prominent Bombay queer zines: Bombay Dost, Scripts and Gaysi Zine. Through close readings of specific volumes, I demonstrate that zines constitute not only an overlooked archive of queer and trans cultures in India but have also been crucial to facilitating ‘queer sociality’ (Rodríguez 2011) …
Conversations Follow: Featuring Books by Omar Kasmani, Kareem Khubchandani and Elliot Powell
Queer activism in India: A story in the anthropology of ethicsby Dave, Naisargi N
What’s so ‘queer’ about coming out? Silent queers and theorizing kinship agonistically in Mumbai
What kinds of creative potential exist in silence – in not coming out? This ethnographic study takes the strategic silences that queer persons in Mumbai deploy regarding ‘coming out’ as productive for theorizing the connections between kinship and queerness. While some strands of queer critique conceptualize the relationship between kinship and queerness antagonistically, the author deploys the concept of agonistic intimacy outlined in Singh’s Po…
The Queer Turn in South Asian Studies? or “That’s Over & Done Queen, On to the Next”
Research Article| October 01 2018 The Queer Turn in South Asian Studies? or “That’s Over & Done Queen, On to the Next” Brian A. Horton Brian A. Horton Brian A. Horton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Horton’s research explores several intersecting sites of inquiry among queer anthropology, queer theory and the anthropology of India: popular culture, politics and ethics, state power, pleasure, fun, and…
Fashioning Fabulation: Dress, Gesture and the Queer Aesthetics of Mumbai Pride
India’s ongoing legal movement to decriminalise ‘gay sex’ has been witness to the simultaneous sanitisation of queer spaces. From Pride parades declaring ‘no nanga naach, no flamboyance’ to quotidian policing of excessive dress and gestures, there is a growing emphasis on respectability that stages queerness in the private rather than the public domain. The good homosexual subject is increasingly at odds with public gestures, performances and dre…
Future Entanglements: Beauty, Fashion , and (Anti-)Black Aesthetics in India
Research Article| February 01 2021 Future Entanglements: Beauty, Fashion, and (Anti-)Black Aesthetics in India Brian A. Horton Brian A. Horton Brian A. Horton is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Brian is currently working on a book project titled “Shimmers of the Fabulous: A Speculative Ethnography of Queer India(s).” Through queer performance, dress, gesture, and speech, he examines unruly, ephemer…
Sissy Lessons
What are nightlife's object lessons about power, desire, and the frictions of gender, sexuality, race, class, and caste in India and in the diaspora? What can nightlife's unwritten rules for bodily comportment teach us about queerness politics? What do the movements on the dance floor reveal about the mobilities and constraints of “bodies and differences across borders and scales (6)?” Ishtyle, as Kareem Khubchandani argues, names “South Asians’ …
Between the sheets: The queer sociality of Bombay zines
With a particular focus on zines produced in Bombay from the 1990s to 2000s, this essay draws on and thinks with the masala that flavored the pages of three prominent Bombay queer zines: Bombay Dost, Scripts and Gaysi Zine. Through close readings of specific volumes, I demonstrate that zines constitute not only an overlooked archive of queer and trans cultures in India but have also been crucial to facilitating ‘queer sociality’ (Rodríguez 2011) …
Conversations Follow: Featuring Books by Omar Kasmani, Kareem Khubchandani and Elliot Powell
Gender Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Queer (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works)