ABSTRACT The 2010 Israeli Supreme Court judgment in the matter of the Jerusalem Open
House for Pride and Tolerance, Jerusalem's LGBT community center, was a turning point in …

An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field. In Gender and the Abjection of Blackness,
Sabine Broeck argues that gender studies as a mostly white field has taken insufficient …

South Asia abounds with diverse gender identities that vary regionally based on religion,
language, and cultural practices. Transgender rights activists have successfully deployed …

ABSTRACT Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming the Sabbath) is a traditional Jewish ritual
marking the transition between the profane weekday and the holy Shabbat. Reform Jewish …

Queer Politics in India simultaneously tells two interconnected stories. The first explores the
struggle against violence and marginalization by queer people in the Indian subcontinent …

This paper examines the (non) fluid embodied geographies of a queer nightclub in Tel Aviv,
Israel. The nightclub is considered to be a space of sexual liberation and hosted the Friendly …

This article asks if and why sexual orientation and gender identity-related rights should
connect to a human rights framework. To answer that question it begins by addressing how …

Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to
Zionism. The very language of Zionism prizes the concept of immigration to Israel (aliyah …

What role did gender and sexuality play in the making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions?
And how did the drafters of the most important document ever formulated for armed conflict …

In this paper, we juxtapose the present-day Supreme Court battles over the colonial anti-
sodomy provisions in the Indian Penal Code (Section 377), with everyday interpretations of …