Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231155896
Altman Yuzhu Peng, Z. Chen, S. Chen
This article analyses how performatively heteronormative, male teenage Chinese fans consume sports games through the prism of masculinity, using secondary school students’ engagement with the NBA (National Basketball Association) as a case study. Drawing on focus groups of twenty-three participants, we discover that male teenage sports fans constantly evoke elite NBA athletes as male ideals to define a desirable, heteronormative wen-wu masculinity specific to the post-reform era. In this process, they often engage in a double-standard practice, manifesting as their appropriation of the CP (coupling) rhetoric to ‘ship’ athletes and their problematisation of heterosexual women and LGBTQ fans’ similar usage of it. This double-standard practice constitutes an attempt to monopolise the interpretation of masculinity both within and outside of the sporting context. It sheds light on the heteronormative male cohort’s rejection of alternative masculinities, underscoring how aspects of gender politics unfolding in wider society are reflected in China’s teenage sports fandom.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231166827
F. Ashley, Sam Sanchinel
This article analyses the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson as a heroine through the notion of labour, emphasising how heroine narratives are both a product of labour as well as a form of labour. After offering a short account of Marsha P. Johnson’s role in the Stonewall riots and STAR, we explore the development of trans communities’ ability to create, sustain and disseminate heroine narratives, emphasising Tourmaline’s pivotal archival role in establishing Johnson’s legacy. Then, we elucidate the role of heroine narratives in creating and sustaining a collective identity. We argue that community attachment to Marsha P. Johnson reclaims the place of trans communities in LGBTQ+ history but is often done in a manner that obscures the whiteness of mainstream trans advocacy. We suggest that the recent increase in interest towards the life-sustaining labour of STAR House reflects the evolution of trans collective identity in the post-visibility era.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231172876
Neeti Shetty
This piece will attempt to see beyond the romanticisation of the lives of hardship and instead portray the diverse facets of the experiences of a select folk group. Folk songs carry many traditions in them and have been composed, sung and passed on through generations orally by anonymous individuals. These individuals tend to belong to the lower socioeconomic strata of society. When Moonlight Is Very Hot (Rao and Gowda, 2018) is a collection of English translations of Tulu1 work songs or kabitas and dance songs, translated and compiled by B. Surendra Rao and K. Chinnappa Gowda. Moreover, the role of women here fits this idea of the ‘folk’. In particular, the women in the kabitas were commonly exploited and yet sometimes displayed outright sexuality (ibid., pp. 28, 47). These can be seen in the kabitas ‘Handsome Tawny Red Bull’ and ‘As I Was Going Along the Field’. Some songs like ‘Our Lady Darane’ and ‘Work! Work Only!’ reflect the experiences of migrant labourers who come looking for work in these fields. Songs like ‘Our Lady Darane’ showcase the resistance of the women in both visible and invisible forms, thereby defining their social realities. However, the song ‘Work! Work Only!’ illustrates the unwillingness of women to leave their homes presumably due to the poor working conditions or arguably because they have to tend to their husbands, which is of utmost priority as evident in the text (ibid., p. 27).
这篇作品将试图超越对苦难生活的浪漫化，而是描绘一个特定民间群体经历的不同方面。民歌中有许多传统，由匿名的个人口头创作、演唱并代代相传。这些人往往属于社会较低的社会经济阶层。《当月光很热》（When Moonlight Is Very Hot，Rao and Gowda，2018）是一本由B.Surendra Rao和K.Chinnapa Gowda翻译和汇编的Tulu1工作歌曲或歌舞伎和舞曲的英文译本集。此外，女性在这里的角色符合“民间”的理念。特别是，卡巴塔的妇女通常受到剥削，但有时表现出明显的性取向（同上，第28、47页）。这些可以在kabitas的“帅气的茶色红牛”和“当我沿着田野走的时候”中看到。一些歌曲如“我们的达兰夫人”和“工作！只工作！'反映了在这些领域寻找工作的农民工的经历。像《我们的达兰夫人》这样的歌曲以有形和无形的形式展示了女性的抵抗，从而定义了她们的社会现实。然而，歌曲“工作！只工作！'说明妇女不愿意离开自己的家，可能是因为工作条件差，或者可以说是因为她们必须照顾丈夫，这是最优先的，正如案文所示（同上，第27页）。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231178235
Rehanna Kheshgi
Assamese Bihu songs reflect and enact a world brimming with potential. Originating in the Brahmaputra River valley of the northeastern Indian state of Assam, these springtime New Year’s festival songs connect imagery of blossoming flowers, ripening fruits, singing birds and other seasonal representations of life to human desire. Bihu song narratives often include the nasoni , a dancer-singer who embodies idealised aspects of Assamese femininity in her physical presentation, voice, comportment and knowledge of cultural traditions. Songs praise the nasoni ’s ritual performance as part of the blessing of village households every April, accompanied by the drumming, dancing and singing of her masculine counterparts. 1 With the memory of her performance lingering in the air, the entranced onlooker in the following Bihu song invents an excuse to be near the nasoni
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221146572
Pavithra Prasad
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221141685
J. Roy
Deflated and dishevelled after only two months of Covid-induced worldwide quarantine, I turned to music in search of recovery and renewal. Cultivating place on a bedroom floor replete with carpets and pillows, I sat with violin in hand, feeling my way through my mental library of learned compositions, expressions, articulations and techniques. Layering rosin-scented memories of various teachings and experiences—including some of the more unpleasant ones—I would bind my past to the present using a loop pedal. Improvising my way through various movements, I would rely on the rules of tonality that shape the collective orientations of our global pop music-listening bodies. Then, after some time, I would begin to decompose the rhythms and rhymes of sonic stability to explore new aesthetic possibilities. Splicing through the layers I had once built like a defence shield as a classically trained violinist, I continue to turn inward in search of something more sincere. Shedding the need for musical (self-)acceptance, I invite imperfection, inducing accidents that inevitably arise when a horse-hair bow meets a metal string fastened to a wooden paddle. I summon the glitches, background noise, electronic feedback and other parasitic interventions made by the music technologies at my fingertips. Sniffling through failure, I listen for a faint, faraway shimmer of promise.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221147548
J. Roy, Pavithra Prasad, R. Putcha, Omar Kasmani
This is a conversation that began elsewhere. Although primed and conditioned in typical spaces where scholarly discourse emerges—conferences, classrooms, coffee shops, living rooms—and in typical temporalities—20-minute Q&As following panels, early-morning or late-night wrangling of ideas onto a page, in the duration of a lecture—the affect of a less conventional hermeneutic seemed to permeate neatly drawn lines around carefully complicated scholarship on queer South Asia. Anjali Arondekar and Geeta Patel (2016) articulate this discursive move in ‘Area impossible: notes toward an introduction’, pushing queer studies past the ‘homing devices’ of geopolitical and identitarian boundaries that regulate areas studies, especially of the Global South. To move away from the necessity of location, of grounding or of cohesive intersectional identity sets global queer studies into a different orbit—one that prefers to decentre geography from the locus of queer relationality. For South Asia, this could mean a variety of things, but what we hope to do in this themed issue is to inhabit a speculative realm of possibility where the subcontinent ceases to declare itself. Rather, the elsewheres we seek reframe queerness as the organising logic of area (impossible) studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221138095
Aniruddha Dutta
In July 2021, a series of gruesome videos exposed a case of brutal torture perpetrated by a guru or leader of the trans feminine hijra community in eastern India. This guru was allegedly of a Bangladeshi Muslim background, and various community members used the case as an alibi to target hijras of such national and religious origin, sometimes even demanding their expulsion from India. This phenomenon paralleled increasing affiliations between certain sections of trans/hijra communities and the Hindu Right. This article situates this case within the broader rise of queer and trans Hindutva or Hindu nationalism and locates it as indicative of Hindutva’s expansion to its erstwhile ‘elsewheres’: areas outside its traditional strongholds such as eastern India and communities such as hijras who are known for their mixed religious practices and have been historically stigmatised by Hindu society. However, the article also analyses the case to show how hijras and related communities evidence contingently wavering political alliances and complex dynamics of intra-community power and resistance that remain irreducible to typical equations of Hindu right-wing politics. Queer/trans Hindutva might become disrupted by its potential constituents themselves, showing how Hindutva’s ‘elsewheres’ trouble its assimilationist capacities.
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