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Further Reading
HIJROTIC: Towards a New Expression of Desire a critical introduction to Tejal Shah’s Hijra Fantasy Series by Subuhi Jiwani
I first ran into the word hijrotic while I was listening to Radio Mirchi and travelling on Mumbai’s Harbour Line. RJ Jeeturaj was hosting his regular morning show and, as I was to find out, interviewing the well-known hijra rights activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi. Of the many things she said, this one word stuck with […]
Amygdala
by Christian Chase Garner
I. I’m not afraid of getting old, carrying cancer-like clumps of yarrow, being stuck inside ever-thinning skin and eventually getting my ashes tossed to a winter wind in a buoyant, clumsy plume. I am afraid of garden spiders and green, thin snakes, the same ones whose predators are house cats and pesticides and whose […]
SLOWEST, FATTEST CURVE BALL IN HISTORY by Steve Davenport
Black Guy and Bald Guy are buddies. Which means nothing more than that. Couple of guys. Hot-shot Hollywood actors hanging out being guys. Batman and the Green Hornet. Lone Ranger and J. Edgar Hoover. Black Guy and Bald Guy. Just a couple of guys watching each other’s back. Buddies. Except that when someone thinks it […]
