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DESCRIPTION:Shimmers in the Dark: On the Possibilities of Intimate Touch in
  Bombay’s Queer Sexpublics \n\n \n\nAbstract:In Bombay’s cruising park
 s\, gay parties\, pride events\, and virtual spaces—what I call queer se
 xpublics—queer sex\, touch\, and intimacy flourish. Though queer and tra
 ns people perpetually negotiate risk and rejection in search of love\, sex
  and intimacy\, queer sexpublics enable practices that allow them to both 
 endure as well as play with state and social violences. Drawing on 28 mont
 hs of fieldwork conducted in Bombay between 2013 and 2019\, this talk asks
 : How might queer and trans lives be lived outside of and against the reac
 hes of cultural intelligibility and legal and social recognition? And how 
 might queer studies and anthropology engage this abundance of life in the 
 face of violence\, risk\, and erasure—“More Life” (Chambers-Letson 2
 018)—as a means of recognizing minoritarian lives not just in the moment
 s when they are in crisis\, but also when they brim with unbridled possibi
 lities? I develop the concept of the shimmer—fleeting\, coded moments of
  queer touch and intimacy–to examine unruly\, temporary\, and critical f
 orms of life that are simultaneously ephemeral (here and then gone) as wel
 l as speculative (strategic calculations of risks for rewards). Shimmers n
 ame how people eke out forms of possibility\, pleasure\, and intimacy amid
  precarious and risky existences. \n\n \n\nDr. Brian A. Horton is an Assis
 tant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University. A
 t Brandeis\, he is also an affiliated faculty member in Women’s\, Gender
 \, and Sexuality Studies\, African and African American Studies\, and the 
 South Asian Studies Program\, which he currently chairs. Brian is a socioc
 ultural anthropologist working across queer anthropology\, South Asian Stu
 dies\, and “otherwise anthropology”—or an anthropology of the politi
 cal\, social\, ethical\, and aesthetic possibilities that emerge from ongo
 ing structural violence\, precarity\, and crisis. Across each of these bro
 ad domains\, his research and teaching center the thresholds between pleas
 ure and violence\; wherein he asks how gender\, sexual\, and racial minori
 ties experience and endure myriad forms of violence while simultaneously e
 nacting new possibilities and futures. Currently\, he is working on his fi
 rst book-length monograph\, Shimmers of the Fabulous: Public Sex and Intim
 ate Touch in Queer and Trans Bombay. His work has appeared in Sexualities\
 , South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies\, and QED: Journal of GLBTQ W
 orldmaking. \n\nCo-sponsored by South Asia Program and Feminist\, Gender\,
  and Sexuality Studies. thank you.\n\nContact Liz at ek61@cornell.edu if y
 ou have any questions or if you need accommodations.
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