"Lessons in Drag" explores South Asian popular culture (literature, film, performance) through anecdote, monologues, research interviews, stand-up comedy, and dance. The show raises issues of gender, discipline, diasporic nostalgia, film reception, racialization, and racism.
Kareem Khubchandani is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University writing a dissertation titled "Ishtyle: Queer Nightlife Performance in India and the South Asian Diaspora." He is an activist working ...
"Lessons in Drag" explores South Asian popular culture (literature, film, performance) through anecdote, monologues, research interviews, stand-up comedy, and dance. The show raises issues of gender, discipline, diasporic nostalgia, film reception, racialization, and racism.
Kareem Khubchandani is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University writing a dissertation titled "Ishtyle: Queer Nightlife Performance in India and the South Asian Diaspora." He is an activist working with the LGBT South Asian organization-Trikone-Chicago, and with the Bangalore Campaign for Sexual Minority Rights.
Part of the Spring 2014 SASP Seminar, this performance is sponsored by South Asian Studies Program in University of Iowa International Programs; the Department of Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa; the Department of Theatre Arts; the UI Center for Human Rights; the Women's Resource and Action Center; and the LGBT Resource Center.
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