HAS ANYONE EVER READ YOU A SHLOKA IN A SEX CLUB?

Surprising! Shocking! Scandalous! Isn't it? Imagine what Hindu hyper-nationalists would say. Now, imagine this happening to a Dalit2 queer person, and among all places, in London. I love dancing. And being in England, I have been far too homesick. I arrived only mid-February in 2023 for a short-term Urban Studies Foundation (USF) fellowship. So, the first opportunity I saw, I grabbed it. Few South Asian queer men had recently started a Bollywood dance night in London by scaping a possibility within its insidiously racialized queer landscape (Borisa and Brown, 2024; khanna, 2016). It promised a night of Bollywood music, drinking, dancing and debauchery. The best part, it was happening in a sex club on the old street, and the invite recommended clothing to a bare minimum. I am a queer geographer, and this seemed an exciting site - to be brown and queer and Dalit and sexy, and in London - adventurous, impossible, but wonderful!