writing

academic

Peer-Reviewed Publications

“A Tale of Two Trials: The Illegible Obscenities of Ismat Chughtai’s ‘Lihaaf’ and Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Bu,’” forthcoming in Law & Literature.

"'Have You Read Oscar Wilde?': Performing Queer Citizenship in Asylum Spaces," forthcoming in Law, Culture, and the Humanities.

"Jack and Johnny Went Up the Hill: Emergent Homonationalism in Post-Section 377 Bollywood Cinema," Journal of Postcolonial Writing 60, no. 5 (2024): 675-688. Winner of the 2021 Postcolonial Studies Association’s Postgraduate Essay Prize.

Legal Scholarship

"'With Sorrow ... We Dissent': The Radical Affective Turn of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Dissent,” forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 36, no. 3.

"The Promise of Disability Protections for Trans Prisoners," Dukeminier Awards Journal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law 21 (2022): 291-340. Winner of the Dukeminier Awards Journal 2022 Student Writing Competition and the Jeffrey S. Haber Prize in Student Scholarship.

"LGBTQI+ Refugee and Asylum Seekers: A Review of Research and Data Needs," in the UCLA Williams Institute (published 2022)

Book Chapters

“Performing Citizenship Across Law and Literature,” in the Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation (Sheera Talpaz and Anuradha Needham eds.), 132-143.

Book Reviews

“A Practice of Proliferation: Anjali Arondekar’s Abundance and Archival Engagement as Timepass," forthcoming in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ World-Making 11, no. 2.

public-facing

Explainers

"Roe and Privacy Rights," in Teen Vogue (2022)

"What the Hell Is Substantive Due Process, Anyway?" in Rewire News (2022)

"What Is Orientalism?" in Teen Vogue (2021; quoted in the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, Colorado and used in syllabi)

"What Is Necropolitics? The Political Calculation of Life and Death," in Teen Vogue (2021; cited in The New Yorker)

Reviews
"Review of The Mothers: Poets in Conversation," in Pleiades Magazine (2023)

"Beyond the Model Minority: A Review of Jenny Bhatt's Each of Us Killers," in Pleiades Magazine (2021)

Criticism

"Illegibly Queer: On All This Could be Different," in The Millions (2022)

"Absent Center: Netflix's Dark and Time Travel as White Privilege," in The Los Angeles Review of Books (2020)

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