May 18
Sandip Roy. 2003. “From Khush List to Gay Bombay: Virtual
Webs of Real People.” In Mobile Cultures:
New Media in Queer Asia, edited by Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue
(pp. 180-197). Durham: Duke University Press.
In From Khush List to
Gay Bombay: Virtual Webs of Real People, Sandip Roy talks about how the
internet has become a platform for LGBTQ Asian and Asian Americans to connect with
one and other, form groups, and organize activism. I think this article is an
extension of the theme of the internet being a transnational tool of
communication and connection. The author talks about how the internet can make
a space of visibility, outside of mainstream media and I think also outside
popular culture. I think the author is also alluding to how Asian American gay
and lesbian people and communities are even more in the dark then the LGBTQ community
as a whole, because of alienation from other cultures and issues more facets of
cultural identity. Towards the end of the text the author also talks about how
the access to internet is less for Indian women versus men because of patriarchal
values in Indian culture, and I think this can relate to shahs text last class
of the differences in how women and men define and navigate their own identity.
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