Cosmopolitan India

Desiring queer

They say that the way we will end up is coded into us from the moment we are born. But it took me a long time to desire and embrace my life as a queer curator and cultural producer. What makes art queer? Does it follow the same definition as one might use to describe a queer person? For me, no one queer identity is the same, nor are there any assumptions that queerness is only ever one thing and one experience. It validates all experiences as unique but equally real and human. Hence, placing queer curating in a singular box is

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