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WEEK 6 / WITH  KAREEM KHUBCHANDANI︎︎︎

Aunties and Queer Kinship





SEMINAR LEADER

Photograph by Steven Gabriel

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Kareem Khubchandani is the Mellon Bridge assistant professor in theater, dance, and performance studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020), co-editor of Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2021), and recipient of the 2019 CLAGS Fellowship. He is also a performance artist and has shown work at Queens Museum, Jack Theater, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Links Hall, and A.R.T. Oberon.




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