A eunuch at the threshold: mediating access and intimacy in the Mughal world
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DOI: 10.1017/s1356186322000827
Abstract: Across the early modern Islamicate world, the phenomenon of eunuch slavery constitutes a significant aspect of courtly contexts and royal households. Although Mughal historiography has focused on the eunuch primarily in relation to the harem,… read more here.
Keywords: access intimacy; threshold mediating; eunuch threshold; world ... See more keywords
Queering the Desire to Die: Access Intimacy as Worldmaking for Survival
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DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2103874
Abstract: ABSTRACT Based on heightened suicide rates of LGBTQ+ people, in this essay I reclaim the desire to die as a queer desire in itself. This framework aims to demedicalize—and thus re-politicize—the desire to die as… read more here.
Keywords: access intimacy; desire; desire die;