This poetry collection first appeared in Kohl: Queer (Non) Futures on 18.12.2025. These are a select few from the entire collection that can be accessed here: https://kohljournal.press/friends-workers-colleagues-corridorists Illustrattion by Kokila B Friends, workers, colleagues, corridorists is a poetry collection about navigating life in the UK academic system as a brown, trans person balancing community, isolation,…
This post first appeared on the LSE South Asia Blog Grassroots-level advocacy by community organisations, collectives and networks has been central to AIDs awareness and control in India. The government too plays an important role. Yet, as Jo Krishnakumar discusses here, the government’s well-intended actions can sometimes be counter-intuitive and counter-productive, negatively impacting decades of…
Excerpt: In Out of Place: When Studying China’s Sex Industry, Margaret Boittin details her experiences as a person “out of place” in three spheres—as a “foreigner” in China, as an outsider to the Chinese sex industry that she is studying, and as a peripheral entity in academic spaces that do not treat feminist/gender studies as…