City and sexuality: An auto-ethnographic storytelling of caste, class and queerness in Delhi

Borisa, Dhiren (2020) City and sexuality: An auto-ethnographic storytelling of caste, class and queerness in Delhi. Geography and you, 20 (4-5). pp. 82-87. ISSN 2347-8845

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Abstract

What makes a city liveable? Often we are situated at various margins of a city—social, spatial and sexual. This paper uses auto-ethnographic storytelling of social-sexual differences that produce our everyday geographies. From gay parties to parks, public sex and dating apps, it opens up questions of caste, class, desires in Delhi from a Dalit queer standpoint. These geographies of survival, I argue, are ephemeral, imagined and performative. They survive as temporal entities in their ability to collapse. These are messy geographies of how the queer survive through caste, class and such other identity particularly when social standing is closely linked with the material one.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Gender Studies
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Dharmveer Modi
Date Deposited: 06 Feb 2025 10:47
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2025 10:47
Official URL: https://www.geographyandyou.com/caste-and-class/ci...
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/9097

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