Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia: Moving with, against, and beyond the State

The last decade has witnessed an incredible and multidisciplinary engagement with contemporary South Asian trans-hijra-khwaja sira communities, and reckonings with the co-constitutive scripts of gender, sexuality, nation, region, language, kinship, class, caste, labor, and religion. This special issue grows out of the robust scholarship engaging such reckonings across South Asia and asks how regional conversations might further reimagine trans-hijra-khwaja sira possibility with, against, and beyond the state.

Contributors: Rasel Ahmed, Daniela Bevilacqua, Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Clara Cremin, Aniruddha Dutta, Adnan Hossain, Shakthi Nataraj, Claire Pamment, Angel Queentus, Kumud Rana, Gowthaman Ranganathan, Gayatri Reddy, Jeffrey A. Redding, Sophiya Sharma, Liza Tom, Uzma Zafar