WEEK 6 / SEMINAR WITH KAREEM KHUBCHANDANI

WEEK 6 / WITH KAREEM KHUBCHANDANI︎︎︎

Aunties and Queer Kinship

SEMINAR LEADER

Photograph by Steven Gabriel

[ IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Kareem smolders at the camera for a black and white portrait while holding a bright fan over their upper body. She is at a dark, indoor event wearing an ornately patterned shirt. The bright light of a flashbulb bounces off of her brown skin, mustache, eyebrows, and curly hair. The backs of strangers in a crowd are behind him. ︎︎ heart symbol ]

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.

[ IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Purple line drawing of two telephone receivers connected by a curly cord ︎ heart symbol ]

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