The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that has a long history of political protests. The 2014 "Kiss of Love" campaign garner…
Introduction: sexual figures of Kerala -- Tracing the prostitute: between excess and containment -- To claim the day: the sex worker as subject in the time of AIDS -- Wandering in the vernacular: divergent visions of queerness -- Living together, dying together: the politics of …
"In Unruly Figures, Navaneetha Mokkil tracks the cultural practices through which sexual figures--particularly the sex worker and the lesbian--are produced in the public imagination. Her analysis includes representations of the prostitute figure in popular media, trajectories of…
Introduction: sexual figures of Kerala -- Tracing the prostitute: between excess and containment -- To claim the day: the sex worker as subject in the time of AIDS -- Wandering in the vernacular: divergent visions of queerness -- Living together, dying together: the politics of …