Presenter: Saad Khan, GWSS Ph.D. Candidate
Moderator: Marielle Marcaida, GWSS Ph.D. Candidate

“Nascent moves” investigates the materiality of modes of coming together and collectivizing for pleasure, sociality, and political achievement in the LGBTQ activist scene in Bangladesh. In this colloquium, Khan will introduce the main arguments of his dissertation around themes of archive, loss, desire, failure, and development, and share ethnographic vignettes, particularly focusing on his first chapter: Ephemeral archives ~ Lesbian, Gay, and Hijra publics. He asks: Why do people keep documents of their life as valued objects? How to analyze these valued objects? He builds on queer scholarship to think about research methodologies, the concept of ‘nascent’, and explore how value of queer archives comes from their claim to futurity in the face of violence and erasure.   
 

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