Terrifying Drag

a conversation with Faluda Islam & LaWhore Vagistan RSVP: apa.nyu.edu/events This conversation brings together two fabulous US-based South Asian drag queens, Faluda Islam and LaWhore Vagistan, to discuss a broad array of topics connected to the aesthetics of their practices. Specifically: pastiche as a mode of re-making the world; death as well as conviviality as …

April 11 :: South Asian American Masculinities & Popular Culture in the Age of Trump

South Asian American Masculinities & Popular Culture in the Age of Trump a roundtable featuring D’Lo, Swati Khurana, Rajiv Menon, Mallika Rao, & Imran Siddiquee April 11, Wednesday 6 to 8 pm ** SEATING IS ON A FIRST-COME BASIS. DOORS OPEN AT 5:30 PM ** D’Lo, actor, writer, comedian Swati Khurana, artist, writer Rajiv Menon, Visiting Scholar, Center for …

Sept 25: APPARATUS OF POWER: Shahzia Sikander

Apparatus of Power a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Shahzia Sikander September 25, Monday 6 to 8 pm Shahzia Sikander, visual artist This talk will explore Sikander’s pioneering practice that takes classical Indo-Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting with scale …

Impossible Communities

Impossible Communities Critical and Visual Studies Colloquium presents a panel discussion moderated by Professor Gayatri Gopinath (NYU), featuring DJ Ashu Rai (Sholay Productions) and DJ Rekha (Basement Bhangra) Thursday, April 22nd 2010 6:30 – 8:00 PM A conversation on the emergence and history of a South Asian Queer Diaspora in NYC, and the use of …