All Outputs (11)

Playgrounds of Resistance: A Patchwork Ethnography of Sex Workers’ Sociopolitical Collectivisation in South & West India (2025)
Thesis
Krishnakumar, J. Playgrounds of Resistance: A Patchwork Ethnography of Sex Workers’ Sociopolitical Collectivisation in South & West India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Sex workers in India have long battled singular, stereotypical representations of themselves as victim-criminals, or, as ‘key populations’ in India’s HIV/AIDS Targeted Intervention programmes since the late 1980s through the 1990s. This thesis engage... Read More about Playgrounds of Resistance: A Patchwork Ethnography of Sex Workers’ Sociopolitical Collectivisation in South & West India.

Pride (2024)
Journal Article
Krishnakumar, J. (2024). Pride. Radical History Review, 51-53. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-11027391

Trans Community, Inclusion/Involvement in Research (2024)
Book Chapter
De La Haye, D., Krishnakumar, J., & Everhart, A. R. (2024). Trans Community, Inclusion/Involvement in Research. In A. E. Goldberg (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies, 2nd Edition. Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071891414

Moving toward Radical Love in Organizing Spaces (2022)
Journal Article
Krishnakumar, J., & Menon, A. (2022). Moving toward Radical Love in Organizing Spaces. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 9(3), 488-500. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-9836148

Review of: Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle by Raven Bowen (2022)
Journal Article
Krishnakumar, J. (2022). Review of: Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle by Raven Bowen. International journal of gender, sexuality and law, 2(2), 430-433. https://doi.org/10.19164/ijgsl.v2i1.1269

The Stage Belongs to Fat, Frigid Freaks: A Review of Ms Mabel Syrup's Fucking Accepted (2022)
Other
Krishnakumar, J. (2022). The Stage Belongs to Fat, Frigid Freaks: A Review of Ms Mabel Syrup's Fucking Accepted. Toronto, Canada

Ms Mabel Syrup is a neo-burlesque dancer/drag queen with three years of experience in the Oxford/London drag/burlesque scene. Her larger body of performance seeks to claim aesthetic joy for fat people, subverts dominant ideas of female sexuality, and... Read More about The Stage Belongs to Fat, Frigid Freaks: A Review of Ms Mabel Syrup's Fucking Accepted.

Take a Look Inside: Exploring Closets as Fingerprints of the Queer Community (2022)
Book Chapter
Krishnakumar, J. (2022). Take a Look Inside: Exploring Closets as Fingerprints of the Queer Community. In P. Pain (Ed.), LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A Global Perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003196457-4

The concept of “coming out” of a “closet” is an idea that has taken precedence in queer public life, personal narratives, and fictive stories as opposed to stories about queer life, joy and “normalcy.” This chapter follows the inception and growth of... Read More about Take a Look Inside: Exploring Closets as Fingerprints of the Queer Community.

Review of: Independent filmmaking in Southeast Asia: conversations with filmmakers on building, and sustaining a creative career by Nico Meissner (2021)
Journal Article
Krishnakumar, J. (2021). Review of: Independent filmmaking in Southeast Asia: conversations with filmmakers on building, and sustaining a creative career by Nico Meissner. Media Practice and Education, 22, https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1961553

Differences Empowering Solidarity: Notes from a Workshop (2021)
Digital Artefact
Menon, A., Nandan, A., & Krishnakumar, J. (2021). Differences Empowering Solidarity: Notes from a Workshop

Transgender bill awaits presidential nod to become law but betrays the very community it aims to protect (2019)
Digital Artefact
Krishnakumar, J. Transgender bill awaits presidential nod to become law but betrays the very community it aims to protect

There is an inadequate representation of transgender persons in the proposed National Council for Transgender Persons since only five members will be from the community.

Co-watching as Feminist Transformative Pedagogy
Book Chapter
Krishnakumar, J., Saxena, S., & Date, R. (in press). Co-watching as Feminist Transformative Pedagogy. In E. Romero-Hall, C. M. Daniel, N. Bond, & L. K. Newman (Eds.), Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online. Athabasca University Press