MUDIYETTU, MASKING, AND QUEERNESS:
Layers of gendered expression in Kerala’s Bhadrakali worship, 2019
An analysis of a Keralan ritual drama through the lens of a lecture by Sarah Ngu on precolonial systems of gender pluralism
SPECULATIVE FUTURES OF THE BORDERED PRESENT;
Post-Border Perspectives on National Security, 2019
A reflection on (1) national borders, (2) neoliberalism’s displacement of state security needs onto the individual citizen’s sense of security, and (3) the work of artist-activists to recontextualize borders within a radical framework
CYBORG POLITICS;
The Role of Gender and Biopolitics in Posthumanist Art, 2017
(1) A brief outline of Posthumanist Cyberfeminism and Transhumanism, (2) a description of the cultural figure of the cyborg and its relation to the aforementioned movements, and (3) a comparison of posthuman artworks by Stelarc and VNS Matrix
