Jai Hijra, Jai Jai Hijra
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3647101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rajorshi Das (0000-0001-7062-1556, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-56 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1064-2684 • E-ISSN: 1527-9375 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10642684-11521502 |
| OpenAlex | W4406749398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
This article focuses on the 2015 Telangana Queer Swabhimana Walk to explore the relationality of trans activism to questions of culture and region. Documented by Moses Tulasi's film, Walking the Walk (2015), this pride march can be read as a site of decolonial theory-making that reorients the gaze of the mainstream public to hijra and other trans people's historic attachment to land and their fight for justice. The article employs podcast interviews with Tulasi and one of the organizers of the walk, Rachana Mudraboyina, to unpack the distinctiveness of swabhimana (roughly translates to "self-respect") from globalized notions of pride and caste-based understanding of dignity and respect. In the process, it highlights how working-class trans activists "disidentify" with the Hindu caste system as well as Dalit and anti-caste critiques of sex work to rally for the dignity of their labor and everyday living
Political science · Communication Studies and Media · Educational Research and Methods · Gender and Women's Rights
The purpose of mess in action research
“A Structure, Not an Event”
Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
From The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Performative Utterances
The Politics of Black Joy
The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
With Respect to Sex
On Decoloniality
On Being Included
Hindu Nation and its Queers
Decolonizing Transgender in India
Fabulous
Un/Queering Intersections of Religion and Pride in Nepal
Dr Ambedkar and the ‘Prostitute’
The Problem Without a Name
Unfinished Gestures
Fashioning Fabulation
Telangana
Caste Concerns in Transgender Communities in India
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
Women's Question in the Dravidian Movement c. 1925-1948
Begging for change
Backward Futures and Pasts Forward
Area Impossible
Queer in Translation
Caste, Queerness, Migration and the Erotics of Activism
Translucent Citizenship
The Transgender Nation and its Margins
Anthropology and the 'Indigenous Slot
Internal Violence
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |