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About Sohini Chatterjee
Sohini Chatterjee is a PhD Candidate and Vanier Scholar in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Western University, Canada. Her areas of interest are queer cultural studies, trans and queer activism, critical disability studies, and resistance movements in India.Sohini Chatterjee is a PhD Candidate and Vanier Scholar in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Western University, Canada. Her work has recently appeared in Women's Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal, South Asian Popular Culture and Fat Studies.
NBN Episodes hosted by Sohini:
February 22, 2023
Becoming Young Men in a New India
Shannon Philip's book Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony (Cambridge UP, 2022) tells the…
January 1, 2023
Lesbian Death
The loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic, has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our curren…
November 24, 2022
Cistem Failure
In Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (Duke UP, 2022), Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cis…
November 24, 2022
Queer Silence
In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (U Minn…
October 19, 2022
The Terrible We
In The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke UP, 2022), Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought tha…
October 12, 2022
Black Disability Politics
In Black Disability Politics (Duke UP, 2022) Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from…
September 12, 2022
Queer Kinship
The contributors to Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke UP, 2022) assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to …
August 31, 2022
Brown and Gay in LA
Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons (NYU Press, 2022) could…
August 15, 2022
Viral Cultures
Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AI…
July 29, 2022
Sex Is as Sex Does
Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex…
March 25, 2022
Trans Care
What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care…
February 23, 2022
Women, Power, and Property
Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hiera…
December 21, 2021
The Maternal Imprint
The idea that a woman may leave a biological trace on her gestating offspring has long been a commonplace folk intuition and a matter of scientific in…
November 24, 2021
The Work of Rape
In The Work of Rape (Duke UP, 2021), Rana M. Jaleel argues that the redefinition of sexual violence within international law as a war crime, crime aga…
November 23, 2021
Police Matters
Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 (Cornell UP, 2021) moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined na…
November 12, 2021
Sexual Citizenship and Disability
What does ‘sexual citizenship’ mean in practice for people with mobility impairments who may need professional support to engage in sexual activity? S…
November 10, 2021
Politics of Rightful Killing
In the early 2000s, mainstream international news outlets celebrated the growth of Weblogistan—the online and real-life transnational network of Irani…
October 15, 2021
The Political Economy of Stigma
In The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities (Ohio State UP, 2021), Ally Day offers a compelling critique of ne…
October 8, 2021
Information Activism
For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't wan…
August 26, 2021
Queering Femininity
In Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation (Routledge, 2019), Hannah McCann asks, “how can we consider femininity in…