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About Shraddha Chatterjee

I am currently a doctoral candidate in Gender, Feminist & Women's Studies at York University. I am researching, broadly, on queer politics in India in relation to the rise of authoritarianism in the subcontinent. My previous research has focused on queer politics in India through the lens of lesbian suicides. In my work, I map queerness through psychoanalysis, gender studies, critical theory, and anthropology, and ask larger questions around how we can understand subjectivity and the realm of political discourse. Besides research and academic engagement, I spend my time around dogs, bodies of water, friendly kin, and like to paint, cook, and read.

Shraddha Chatterjee is a doctoral candidate at York University, Toronto, and author of Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects (Routledge, 2018).

NBN Episodes hosted by Shraddha:

Gender Studies May 22, 2023

Changing the Subject

Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India

Srila Roy

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
In Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (Duke UP, 2022),  Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the …
Critical Theory March 21, 2023

The Politics of Precarity

Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering

Gediminas Lesutis

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Based on critical theory and ethnographic research, Gediminas Lesutis' book The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering (Routledge, 2021) explores how intensifying geographies of extractive capitalism shape human …
Politics & Polemics September 15, 2022

Remaindered Life

Neferti X. M. Tadiar

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
In Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary …
Gender Studies March 31, 2022

Courting Desire

Litigating for Love in North India

Rama Srinivasan

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of …
Gender Studies March 21, 2022

Village Ties

Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh

Nayma Qayum

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but by informal …
Gender Studies November 30, 2021

Pink Revolutions

Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India

Nishant Shahani

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India (Northwestern UP, 2021) describes how queer politics in India occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal globalization, on …
Medicine November 9, 2021

Living with HIV in Post-crisis Times

Beyond the Endgame

David A. B. Murray

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS crisis is near and that HIV/AIDS is now …
Gender Studies October 7, 2021

Complaint!

Sara Ahmed

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
In Complaint! (Duke UP, 2021), Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students …
Gender Studies August 5, 2021

Indian Migration and Empire

A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State

Radhika Mongia

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial …
Gender Studies July 29, 2021

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers

Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India

Vaibhav Saria

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Hijras, one of India’s third gendered or trans populations, have been an enduring presence in the South Asian imagination—in myth, in ritual, and in everyday life, often associated in stigmatized …
Gender Studies July 8, 2021

Unruly Figures

Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala

Navaneetha Mokkil

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that …