I work within and learn from the Transfeminist, Queer, Anti ‘Caste’, Anti ‘Race’ and Transformative Justice Movements. My research adds to and is aligned with the advocacy I am involved in on-ground. I view research as one of the many ways I can add to the movements I am a part of.

My larger research interests are in reflective methods, queer theory, film, performance, social structure studies and structural violence.

Publications

Special Issues

2026 An Unwell World? Anthropology in a Speculative Mode. ASA Monograph with Fabio Gygi and Saad Quasem
[in preparation]

2025 Issue 11, Volume 3. Queer (Non) Futures. Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research with Ghiwa Sayegh, Sabiha Allouche and Sabah Ayoub.

Poetry

2025 Friends? Workers? Colleagues? Corridorists. Queer (non) Futures. 11(3). Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research

2020 Games. The World That Belongs to Us. Eds Aditi Angiras and Akhil Katyal

Fiction

2020 Dua’a in Normal: A Gay Desi Horror Zine. Gaysi Family

2020 Kiss Me Again in Normal: A Gay Desi Horror Zine. Gaysi Family

Journal Articles

2026 Reordering Public-Private Space through Ambedkar Jayanti in Sangli, Maharashtra, India. Special issue on caste-gender intersections in urban geographies. Eds Saanchi Saxena and Syeda Jenifa Zahan. Gender, Place and Culture [under review]

2026 A Sex Worker’s Ambedkar Jayanti. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute [under review]

2024 Pride. Troubling Terms and the Sex Trades. Radical History Review. Duke University Press.

2022 Moving toward Radical Love in Organising Spaces. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.1215/223289252-9836148 with Annapurna Menon

Books/Chapters

2026 Almaarii, almirah, gufa: a workbook retracing embodied experiences of ‘the closet’ in Queer Hopes and Futures. Eds Akanksha Mehta, Aytak Dibavar and Ahmad Qais Munhazim.

2026 Hindi Language Community in London in Languages, Cultures and Health in a Global City. Eds Lutz Marten and Nana Sato-Rossberg. Routledge.

2024 Co-Watching as Feminist Transformative Pedagogy in Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online. Athabasca University Press with Saanchi Saxena and Rujuta Date

2024 Trans Community, Inclusion/Involvement in Research. In Goldberg, Abbie E., (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies, 2nd Edition. SAGE. With D C De La Haye and Avery Everhart

2022 Take a Look Inside: Exploring Closets as Fingerprints of the Queer Community. In LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A Global Perspective (First, pp. 48–65). Routledge.

Review Pieces

2024 Navigating Insider-Outsider Relationalities with Sex Workers in China’s Sex Industry. Socio Legal Forum

2022 The Stage Belongs to Fat, Frigid Freaks: A Review of Ms. Mabel Syrup’s Fucking Accepted. Feral Feminisms, 10(2).

2022 Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle, Raven Bowen. International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law, 2(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.19164/ijgsl.v2i1.1269

2021 Independent filmmaking in Southeast Asia: Conversations with filmmakers on building, and sustaining a creative career. Media Practice and Education, 23(1), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1961553

Blogs

Navigating the UK as a Marginalised Student from India (2025). Mavelinadu

AIDS, Stigma and Counter-Intuitive Advertising in India (2025). LSE South Asia Blog

What does Open Research mean for Qualitative Research? (2025). LSE Impact

Films

2024 Dream State, Dream Border. Imprint Documentary Collective