Hamzah

I don’t need to de-queer my Dalit-ness. I need to fuck my Dalit into my queerness.
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Punjab Deputy General Secretary of Awami Workers Party, Alia Amirali, and Toronto-based labor union organizer Sara Jaffri discuss organizing, imperialism, feminism and class in Pakistan.
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to be with someone we love is a heroic act of defiance, a grave dissidence to every single normativity of state, religion and society which tells everything about us is somehow wrong. all of a sudden you become a Luti (people of Lut), a mental condition, a pervert, or might be going through a...
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14th August 1947: When women were talked about only for the sake of political sensationalism. When women’s bodies were incised by border-making. When killing daughters became a more honorable deed than risking their rape. When independence fighters threatened each other’s ownership by stealing women. When “Pakistan ka matlab kya La ilaha ilallah” rang in...
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I shuttle not only because I am always anxious of others appropriating my narrative, but also because I don’t really know how to process and narrate my queerness, how to come out politically through a narrative that is mine, that refuses to be globalized. Part of the reason for our collective shuttling is our...
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It is important that we ask ourselves if we can do without the Western academic rhetoric that for all its usefulness can never understand the true scope and complexity of our identities, our stories and our traumas. Is it possible in Pakistan to speak about the right to love and live as we...
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A violence links Euro-America and the Muslim world, Paris and Peshawar. But it not the violence of ‘terrorism'. It is the savagery of the liberal imperial project.
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