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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:

Gender Studies February 22, 2023

Becoming Young Men in a New India

Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony

Shannon Philip

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Shannon Philip's book Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony (Cambridge UP, 2022) tells the gendered story of a changing India through the …
LGBTQ+ Studies January 1, 2023

Lesbian Death

Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer

Mairead Sullivan

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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 current culture. In Lesbian Death …
Gender Studies November 24, 2022

Cistem Failure

Essays on Blackness and Cisgender

Marquis Bey

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In Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (Duke UP, 2022), Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have …
Disability Studies November 24, 2022

Queer Silence

On Disability and Rhetorical Absence

J. Logan Smilges

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In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (U Minnesota Press, 2022) insists, however, that silence can be …
Gender Studies October 19, 2022

The Terrible We

Thinking with Trans Maladjustment

Cameron Awkward-Rich

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In The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke UP, 2022), Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and …
Disability Studies October 12, 2022

Black Disability Politics

Sami Schalk

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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 the 1970s to the present …
LGBTQ+ Studies September 12, 2022

Queer Kinship

Race, Sex, Belonging, Form

Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman

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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 kinship theory. In a contemporary …
LGBTQ+ Studies August 31, 2022

Brown and Gay in LA

The Lives of Immigrant Sons

Anthony Christian Ocampo

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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 not have …
LGBTQ+ Studies August 15, 2022

Viral Cultures

Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS

Marika Cifor

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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 AIDS (U Minnesota Press, 2022) …
Gender Studies July 29, 2022

Sex Is as Sex Does

Governing Transgender Identity

Paisley Currah

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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 classification. Many transgender people find …
LGBTQ+ Studies March 25, 2022

Trans Care

Hil Malatino

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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 practices …
Gender Studies February 23, 2022

Women, Power, and Property

The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India

Rachel E Brulé

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Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. ​Property and Power seeks to explore …
Gender Studies December 21, 2021

The Maternal Imprint

The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects

Sarah S. Richardson

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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 intrigue, but the form …
Gender Studies November 24, 2021

The Work of Rape

Rana M. Jaleel

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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 against humanity, and genocide …
South Asian Studies November 23, 2021

Police Matters

The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975

Radha Kumar

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Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 (Cornell UP, 2021) moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the …
Gender Studies November 12, 2021

Sexual Citizenship and Disability

Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory

Julia Bahner

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What does ‘sexual citizenship’ mean in practice for people with mobility impairments who may need professional support to engage in sexual activity? Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in …
Gender Studies November 10, 2021

Politics of Rightful Killing

Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan

Sima Shakhsari

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In the early 2000s, mainstream international news outlets celebrated the growth of Weblogistan—the online and real-life transnational network of Iranian bloggers—and depicted it as a liberatory site that gave voice …
Gender Studies October 15, 2021

The Political Economy of Stigma

HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities

Allyson Day

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In The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities (Ohio State UP, 2021), Ally Day offers a compelling critique of neoliberal medical practices in the US by coupling …
LGBTQ+ Studies October 8, 2021

Information Activism

A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies

Cait McKinney

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For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism: A Queer …
LGBTQ+ Studies August 26, 2021

Queering Femininity

Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation

Hannah McCann

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In Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation (Routledge, 2019), Hannah McCann asks, “how can we consider femininity in a way that best attends to people’s experiences of, and …