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Remembering and Forgetting: Archiving Queer and Trans 'south asian' organizing in Toronto

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dc.contributor.advisorNijhawan, Shobna
dc.contributor.authorVerma, Anuen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-12T12:19:24Z
dc.date.available2018-07-12T12:19:24Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.date.updated2018-07-12T12:19:24Z
dc.description.abstractThis work considers the ways memory, history, community and activism come together. It is an autoethnography that speaks to the specificities of queer and trans 'south asian' community organizing and activism in Toronto. Queer/Trans 'south asians' in Toronto can be understood as a heterogeneous set of communities whose individual and group-identify formation is socially and spatially constituted. Using a broadly intersectional social justice lens, understanding how queer/trans 'south asians' conceptualize and express their diasporic, sexualized, gendered, and racialized identities allows for a mapping of how these communities 'make themselves' in social landscapes. Informed by community-grounded, self-critical and anti-racist frameworks, this portfolio uses Desh Pardesh, a political arts festival that took place in Toronto at its peak in the 1990s, and introspection about the nature of the archive to explore queer and trans 'south asian' community organizing. Ranging from theoretical, deeply person and creative, this portfolio is praxis in the complex (and messy) realm of community-oriented and community-focused critical work.
dc.identifierMESMP01942
dc.identifier.citationMajor Paper, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
dc.identifier.citationMajor Portfolio, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34749
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subject.keywordsQueer/trans
dc.subject.keywordsSouth Asian
dc.subject.keywordsDiaspora
dc.subject.keywordsAnti-racism
dc.subject.keywordsArts
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist Methodologies
dc.subject.keywordsArchives
dc.titleRemembering and Forgetting: Archiving Queer and Trans 'south asian' organizing in Toronto
dc.typeMajor Portfolio

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