Representing the Hijras of South Asia: Toward Transregional and Global Flows

Dutta, Aniruddha; Hossain, Adnan; Pamment, Claire

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-03792-4_6

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Beyond homocolonialism: working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh

Hossain,

Rahman

2024

Int Polit

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The queer movement in Bangladesh suffered a crisis in 2016 with the murder of two activists, leading to an unwanted hyper-visibility in wider society, and a chilling effect on activism. We detail what it means to think beyond postcolonial critiques of international LGBTQ rights, briefly explaining the realities and limits of queer politics in Bangladesh, focusing on sexual health infrastructures and the emergence of legal citizenship for the “third-gender” hijra population. We argue that these dimensions of queer existence remain circumscribed, and that a public discourse of sexualities remains difficult to create as a terrain for equality. We explore whether the framing of ‘decolonial’ is useful here, conceptualized as a process of working through the postcolonial critique of western structures of financial and sexual frameworks, towards an understanding of crisis that requires reading colonialism in its later evolution in the context of nationalism, neoliberal development, and religious fundamentalism.

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Beyond homocolonialism: working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh

Hossain,

Rahman

2024

Int Polit

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‘We Don’t Have Any Honor Because We Are khwaja sira’: Police Violence and Discrimination Against the Khwaja Sira Community in Swat, Pakistan

Tripathi,

Azhar,

Ahmad

2024

Journal of Human Rights Practice

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This qualitative study examines police violence and discriminatory policing practices targeting the third gender community, known in Pakistan as khwaja sira. Employing a phenomenological analysis, we conducted a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with 45 khwaja sira in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, recruited through purposive and snowball sampling. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the interview transcripts: two distinct themes emerged regarding the lived experiences of khwaja sira in Swat, Pakistan: experiencing multiple forms of violence by police; and managing abuses of policing power. Findings shed light on the challenges khwaja sira face regarding police violence and misconduct, including neglect from law enforcement officers to register their cases, biased practices within police precincts, and discrimination associated with their engagement in sex work or their gender nonconformity. Findings underscore the need for comprehensive interventions aimed at addressing police violence experienced by the khwaja sira community.

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Biehl¹,

Adams²

2023

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Representing the Hijras of South Asia: Toward Transregional and Global Flows

Cited by 23 publications

References 54 publications

Beyond homocolonialism: working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh

Beyond homocolonialism: working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh

‘We Don’t Have Any Honor Because We Are khwaja sira’: Police Violence and Discrimination Against the Khwaja Sira Community in Swat, Pakistan

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