<i>Khwaja Sira</i>Activism

Khan, Faris A.

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“…The pervasive public visibility of khwajasiras in the subcontinent has been much documented (F. Khan, 2014a, 2014b; Pamment, 2010; Reddy, 2005).…”

Section: The Khwajasira and The Malang: Gender In The Slasher Film; Omentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Faris Khan (2014a), however, has looked at the ways in which khwajasira communities in Pakistan not only subvert dominant cultural practices, but simultaneously collaborate and comply with dominant cultural norms (F. Khan, 2014a, p. 6).…”

Section: The Khwajasira and The Malang: Gender In The Slasher Film; Omentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Khan argues that marginalised groups navigate strategically by sometimes reproducing but also resisting national culture. In his study of trans activism in Pakistan, he writes in regard to his select respondents that ‘they conceal their involvement in such [socially unacceptable] activities and engage in a public representation of khwaja siras as good Muslims and responsible Pakistani citizens’ (F. Khan, 2014b, p. 182).…”

Section: The Khwajasira and The Malang: Gender In The Slasher Film; Omentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4.In several authoritative scholarly works on the South Asian khwajasira community, the more common term hijra has been used instead (see Hinchy, 2014; Pamment, 2010; Reddy, 2005 among others). I employ the term ‘khwajasira’ however as it is deemed more politically correct (see F. Khan, 2014a).…”

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Visions of Queer Anarchism: Gender, Desire, and Futurity in Omar Ali Khan’s Zibahkhana

Masood¹

2019

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies

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Modelled upon American slasher film tropes, Omar Ali Khan’s Zibahkhana (2007) is more than a transnational remake. It is a vision of a queer revolution, and imagines queer futures brought about through rural anarchy and violent eroticism. This article reads the masked killer of Zibahkhana as a monstrous queer agency armed with a queer (zombie) militia prepared to consume and transform the heteronormative matrix. Offering an unprecedented and unapologetic representation of queer aggression onscreen, Khan’s indie slasher explores queer articulations of desire and anarchy in the figure of the killer, Baby, a queer woman and a murderous cannibal. With Baby, Zibahkhana offers a queer anti-hero, the first of its kind for Pakistani cinema, that challenges normative modes of being, belonging, and desiring. Thus Zibahkhana not only offers a welcome revision of Western slasher film tropes, it blazes a trail for transgressive and incendiary portrayals of queer embodiments and intimacies in Pakistani visual media.

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“…The pervasive public visibility of khwajasiras in the subcontinent has been much documented (F. Khan, 2014a, 2014b; Pamment, 2010; Reddy, 2005).…”

Section: The Khwajasira and The Malang: Gender In The Slasher Film; Omentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Khwajasira and The Malang: Gender In The Slasher Film; Omentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Khwajasira and The Malang: Gender In The Slasher Film; Omentioning

confidence: 99%

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Visions of Queer Anarchism: Gender, Desire, and Futurity in Omar Ali Khan’s Zibahkhana

Masood¹

2019

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“…В 2014 г. третьим полом трансгендеров признали в Индии 6 . В Пакистане в результате борьбы за свои права люди третьего пола, называемые «квайя сара» (khwaja sara), добились выдачи специальных документов, отражающих их гендер [Khan, 2016]. Схожие процессы в последние годы отмечаются в Таиланде и на Филиппинах, в культурах которых исторически существовали полигендерные конструкты [Kang, 2012].…”

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Social transformation of gender and sexuality as viewed by I.S. Kon

Tartakovskaya¹,

Lunin²

2018

MONITORING OF PUBLIC OPINION

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The article examines the influence of Igor Kon on many aspects of modern research in the field of gender and sexuality. The authors conclude that it was Igor Kon who identified several key trends describing the current state of gender order in sexuality, namely, individualization and pluralization of cultures and lifestyles. It seems that the better way to speak about sexuality is not to refer to single or “normative models” but about a set of sexualities. In the proposed work, the variety of combinations of different gender identities with a multitude of sexual preferences is shown on the example of the theory of sexual configurations proposed by Canadian researcher Sari van Anders. The article emphasizes that, as I. Kon warned, it is gender relations and sexuality that are currently at the center of the agenda, since many more serious social problems are extrapolated to them. Cultural and, in particular, gender diversity is perceived by many people as the threat of losing the most basic landmarks in an unpredictable and changeable world. The article provides examples of different types of public policy in relation to binary and non-binary gender categories in different countries of Europe, Asia and North America.

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Constitutional and Legal Guarantees for Transgender in Pakistan: Reforms and Failures in Law

Rashid

Umar

2022

Towards Gender Equality in Law

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Transgender individuals in Pakistan have been excluded from political and economic systems. In 2009, the Supreme Court of Pakistan for the first time recognised the unique gender identity of transgender individuals. This Order initiated reforms for the protection of the rights of transgender individuals and compelled various government departments to devise guidelines for the issuance of National Identification Cards (NICs) to all transgender individuals and created a legal framework for their full and equal participation in society. This chapter will analyse the effectiveness of this reform project in relation to other legal rules and entrenched social norms. It will start with an analysis of the historical discriminatory laws which led to a marginalisation of transgender individuals, and evaluate whether the recent developments in law, particularly the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018, are sufficient to protect the rights of transgender in Pakistan.

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Khwaja SiraActivism

Cited by 38 publications

References 4 publications

Visions of Queer Anarchism: Gender, Desire, and Futurity in Omar Ali Khan’s Zibahkhana

Visions of Queer Anarchism: Gender, Desire, and Futurity in Omar Ali Khan’s Zibahkhana

Social transformation of gender and sexuality as viewed by I.S. Kon

Constitutional and Legal Guarantees for Transgender in Pakistan: Reforms and Failures in Law

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