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Cleavage on the Queer Body: Light, Law and a Politics of Ambiguity

Dates: 22 May 2009
Time: 13.00 - 14.30
Location: IDS room 220

Speaker: Akshay Khanna, University of Edinburgh

Akshay is close to completing a PhD thesis in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. S/he is a queer activist from India, most closely associated with Prism, a Delhi based collective engaged in dialogue on sexuality and marginalisation with various people's movements and civil society formations. In earlier avatars s/he has been a human rights lawyer and a consultant to various NGOs and international organisations on issues relating to gender, sexuality, health and rights. Her/his doctoral research relates to the queer movement in India and is focused on epidemiology and law as two primary registers in which activists seek to make sexuality relevant.