Queering Desi: Season 3, Episode 3: Queering Nightlife with Kareem Khubchandani
This week on Queering Desi, we welcome Kareem Khubchandani, an assistant professor at Tufts University and performance artist also known as LaWhore Vagistan.
The two chat about drag and performance art in queer South Asian spaces, and Kareem opens up about his own experiences and research on the subject. Later, he talks about his upcoming book, "Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife." Finally, the two play a few games, including a rapid fire round and Instagram vs. Reality!
About the guest:
Kareem Khubchandani is the Mellon Bridge assistant professor in the department of theatre, dance, and performance studies, and the program in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Tufts University. He is developing several book projects include: Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife; Decolonize Drag!; Queer Nightlife (co-edited with Kemi Adeyemi and Ramón Rivera-Servera); and Auntologies: Queer Aesthetics and South Asian Aunties. Kareem is also a performance artist working in drag, storytelling, body art, theater, and digital media. He holds a Ph.D. in performance studies from Northwestern University.
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This insightful cultural and LGBTQ+ studies feature from Queering Desi (Kareem Khubchandani: Ishtyle) highlights the vital intersection of South Asian queer nightlife, diasporic performance art, and cultural expression—themes that find great synergy with intersectional identity spotlights, queer media reviews, and global community chronicles, published on https://34.ua. The piece explores scholar and performer Kareem Khubchandani’s acclaimed work Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife, examining how queer South Asian men navigate desire, class, and belonging across borders from Chicago to Bangalore.
Loved this episode with Kareem Khubchandani—the way he connects LaWhore Vagistan, drag, and performance art in queer South Asian spaces made me think differently about nightlife as a stage. Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife sounds like such a necessary read, and the Instagram vs. Reality game was a https://aihaircut.net/
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