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Mar 21 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
More than slight tbh. This was a really odd one. Homophobia of various (older, female) characters was a running and not very funny gag. Yet it also centred a homosocial relationship the way Bolllywood often has. #ABollywoodStateofMind
I re-watched the film while working on my book & found the depiction of Kantaben’s homophobia disturbing and fascinating. It’s articulated via the older, female, Gujarati house help which adds a whole range of intersections of gender, class, ethnicity etc #ABollywoodStateofMind
I find Shohini Ghosh’s work interestting and her essay #Queer unpicks this and other representations
#ABollywoodStateofMind

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Section 377 was very much on the books and Hindu far right was actively - violently - weaponising homophobia at the time. There was also much gossip/speculation about IRL sexuality of the two male stars (with notable dose of Islamophobia) #ABollywoodStateofMind
I found the homophobic gag of Kal Ho Na Ho deeply unfunny (same with Dostana) at the time. I remain ambivalent now as I was when I wrote this on rethinking queerness in Indian cinema #ABollywoodStateofMind

taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

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Mar 23
Much to critique about Starmer’s stance on trans rights but 2 points:
1. Human rights are not beans to be counted and ‘balanced.’ Either we ALL have human riggts. Or none of us do.

2. Changes for equality have ALWAYS been against “public will” (a euphemism for elite bs) Image
How does he plan to assess this ‘public will’? By another Brexit like referendum? Or by the hateful shreiks of a moribund press? Or by the numbers who turn out at protests?

Or by principles, ethics, basic morality? Changes for equality have ALWAYS been guided by the last!
A reminder of what was “against public will”: ban on slave trade; ban on enslavement; end of empire; end of section 28; legislation protecting refugees; human rights legislations; end to marital rape….

I could keep going!
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Mar 23
A decision delivered on the day marking the martyr of the independence movement (specifically Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru who were executed in prison in 1931). Almost as if nobody thought this one through….
Almost as if BJP want to build RG as the face of the opposition in the country.
How things have changed in a decade…a privileged scion of a fading political dynasty is being reinvented as a serious opposition leader, as a voice against authoritarian diktat. Not just by his own steps or growth or acuity but by the hubris of the ruling party….
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