Artwork by Azqa Azim BY: A.K (1) do you realize how precious you are i can’t breathe when you hold my hand i think i should start carrying an oxygen tank / you say that it would be okay if i married someone else do you even realize the impact of your words darling, if […]
By: Maleeha Basharat The past is fascinating because if seen carefully, it illuminates the elasticity- and politics- of sexual boundaries. For much of the last century, a rewriting of history has taken place. In this context; that of the queer culture of the East. Afsaneh Najmabadi, in her book “Women with mustaches, Men without beards”,
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By Rida Akhtar Ghumman My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO adaptation for television, is the first novel in a series of four by Italian author Elena Ferrante. Elena Ferrante herself is very intricately complex- using a pseudonym the author has touched hearts with her remarkable literary reflection of women- My Brilliant Friend similarly, is a
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BY: Nisha Ghani An old illustration and the first time I created something which was openly representative and symbolic of my sexuality. And it was right after I came out to one of my closest friends, which was the start of many more coming outs after! BIO: Based in Lahore, and a junior year art
BY: CONTRIBUTOR My current project on queerness, Pakistan, and the idea of the failed state begins, somewhat unexpectedly, with Rudyard Kipling’s Kim. It was published in 1900, well before Pakistan existed or became allegedly “failed,” but it has been resonating strongly for me, all the more so for the queer unnameability of our young protagonist,