Academic Conferences

• Reordering Identity in Public-Private Space: Celebrating Ambedkar Jayanti with Sex Workers in Miraj and Sangli, India, RGS IBG Conference, London 2024
  
  
• Gender, Caste and Space in Sangli: Festival Making and Sex Workers’ Rights, LSE International Inequalities Institute, May 2024
  
  
• “It was supposed to be one Instagram post!”. Practicing Intersectionality in Activism, Politics and Research Conference, Freie Universitat, Berlin, December 2023
   
• Organiser, South Asian Anthropologists’ Group (SAAG) 2023
  *Planning, administration and organising of a three-day conference at SOAS, University of London with 20 scholars and 15 discussants.
   
• Webs and Cycles: Trans/formatively Complicating the Nature of Anti-Trans Violence in India with Sambhavi Varadarajan at Engender Conference 2023.
   
• Co-Chair, Scientific Committee, Association for Social Anthropologists of the UK and Ireland (ASA) Conference, April 2023.
  *Convened and chaired a round table on Participatory Ethnography.
  *Curated and screened the film schedule at the ASA in association with the RAI.
  *Co-Chaired the ASA Plenary on ‘Methods for an Unwell World’
   
• Playgrounds of Resistance: Movement and Mobilisation in West and South Indian Sex Workers’ Collectives at South Asia Anthropologist’s Group (SAAG) 2022 Conference, September 2022 at the University of Edinburgh.
   
• Patchy Times, Patchy Minds: Experiments in “Field”, Method and Friendship in a Sex Workers’ Network in South India at Co-conspirators, yes; allies, no! Good practice in sex work research;  Sex Work Research Hub Symposium, August 2022. I was also the Chair for Panel 4 at the symposium.
  
• Sanghatan Humari Shakti Hai*: An Ethnographic Mapping of Sex Workers’ Organised Communities in South and West India at Conceptualising Communities Conference and Summer School, University of Aberdeen, May 2022
  
• Moving Towards Radical Love in Organising Groups with Annapurna Menon at En-Gender Conference. 6th August 2021
  
• No Rest in Resistance: Examining Digital Activist Labour in Trans, Queer and Feminist Networks on Instagram with Riddhima Sharma at A World in Revolution: Feminist politics in times of social uprising. 10th June 2021
  
• Networks, Family, and Crisis Among Sex Worker Communities in South India at Researching the Rainbow, National Student Pride. 24th April 2021
  
• The Social Life of Sex Workers in a Gentrifying Neighbourhood: Towards an Ethnography of Kamathipura, India at the Sex Work Research Hub PGR Conference, 26th March 2021
  
• Exploring Closets as the Fingerprints of the Queer Community in South Asia at Ozmen Institute for Global Studies, University of Nevada, Reno Webinar and Panel Discussion on LGBTQ Use of Digital Spaces in the International Context. March 17th 2021
  
• The Social Life of Sex Workers in a Gentrifying Neighbourhood: Towards an Ethnography of Kamathipura, India at the Irish Sexualities and Gender Research Network Queer Methods Symposium. 20th November 2020.
  
• The Negotiation of Queer Spaces among Cisgender Women and Trans Persons with Sudipta Garai at National Conference on Margins, Christ University Bangalore. 2018
  
• Capitalised Bodies: A Marxist View of Bollywood Item Songs at CHIKITSA, University of Pune. 2017

Workshops

• Imprint Documentary Collective, 2024

• Queer Anti-Fascism, Queer@Kings, King’s College London, November 2022
   
• Structured Democratic Dialogue on Inequalities, The Hannah Arendt Centre for Politics and Humanities, March 2021
   
• London Critical Theory Summer School 2021 supported by the OSUN bursary