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:

Shannon Philip, "Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

February 22, 2023

Becoming Young Men in a New India

Shannon Philip

Shannon Philip's book Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony (Cambridge UP, 2022) tells the…

Mairead Sullivan, "Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

January 1, 2023

Lesbian Death

Mairead Sullivan

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…

Marquis Bey, "Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender" (Duke UP, 2022)

November 24, 2022

Cistem Failure

Marquis Bey

In Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (Duke UP, 2022), Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cis…

J. Logan Smilges, "Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

November 24, 2022

Queer Silence

J. Logan Smilges

In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (U Minn…

Cameron Awkward-Rich, "The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment" (Duke UP, 2022)

October 19, 2022

The Terrible We

Cameron Awkward-Rich

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…

Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)

October 12, 2022

Black Disability Politics

Sami Schalk

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…

Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman, "Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form" (Duke UP, 2022)

September 12, 2022

Queer Kinship

Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman

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 …

Anthony Christian Ocampo, "Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons" (NYU Press, 2022)

August 31, 2022

Brown and Gay in LA

Anthony Christian Ocampo

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…

Marika Cifor, "Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

August 15, 2022

Viral Cultures

Marika Cifor

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…

Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)

July 29, 2022

Sex Is as Sex Does

Paisley Currah

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…

Hil Malatino, "Trans Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

March 25, 2022

Trans Care

Hil Malatino

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…

Rachel E Brulé, "Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

February 23, 2022

Women, Power, and Property

Rachel E Brulé

Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hiera…

Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

December 21, 2021

The Maternal Imprint

Sarah S. Richardson

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…

Rana M. Jaleel, "The Work of Rape" (Duke UP, 2021)

November 24, 2021

The Work of Rape

Rana M. Jaleel

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…

Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975" (Cornell UP, 2021)

November 23, 2021

Police Matters

Radha Kumar

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…

Julia Bahner, "Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory" (Routledge, 2021)

November 12, 2021

Sexual Citizenship and Disability

Julia Bahner

What does ‘sexual citizenship’ mean in practice for people with mobility impairments who may need professional support to engage in sexual activity? S…

Sima Shakhsari, "Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan" (Duke UP, 2020)

November 10, 2021

Politics of Rightful Killing

Sima Shakhsari

In the early 2000s, mainstream international news outlets celebrated the growth of Weblogistan—the online and real-life transnational network of Irani…

Allyson Day, "The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

October 15, 2021

The Political Economy of Stigma

Allyson Day

In The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities (Ohio State UP, 2021), Ally Day offers a compelling critique of ne…

Cait McKinney, "Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies" (Duke UP, 2020)

October 8, 2021

Information Activism

Cait McKinney

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…

Hannah McCann, "Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation" (Routledge, 2019)

August 26, 2021

Queering Femininity

Hannah McCann

In Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation (Routledge, 2019), Hannah McCann asks, “how can we consider femininity in…