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Queer Indian Media: A Compilation

(Now also including stuff from south asia in general! Because I cannot help myself)

A couple of days ago, @impala124 sent @lurkingshan an ask about the lack of discussion about Queer Indian Media in fandom spaces. I wrote about it here, @neuroticbookworm here, and @waitmyturtles here (both of them have excellent points, I highly recommend you read their posts!). It's become quite apparent that people are willing to watch and engage in discourse about queer Indian media, it's just that the lack of popularity and accessibility makes it harder for people to start. So, I've decided to make a list tracking all of the queer Indian media I know of, and hopefully also any meta/discourse about it, which is an idea I've had floating in my head for months now.

This list is by no means comprehensive, so if you have recs, send them my way! Text me on DM, send an ask, tag me in your posts, whatever. And though it's not possible for me to watch everything on the list, I will be slowly going through as many of these as I can and writing about them, as well as hopefully finding more stuff and easier to access versions for the ones that are harder to access right now. This post is going to be a slow work in progress, but I'm hoping to update it regularly. So, if you'd like me to keep you updated, let me know through the tags/replies and I will tag you in future posts!

I've tagged the people who've recommended certain shows alongside each show. Everything on here is available online. The hyperlinked titles lead you to the media itself, meaning that it's available for free online with subtitles. Other details will be mentioned separately. If you want to watch something but can't access it, DM me and I'll see if i can help you.

(The list was getting too long so I've put all of the recs under the cut)

heretherebedork

Pride Rainbow: Duang with You Edition

This show really did just take over my soul for a while, y'all.

#duang with you #pride

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

hypokeimena

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

herius-is-drawing

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH TO ALL OF YOU 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖 let’s parade even for those people who can’t be in the street, we’ll be louder even for you 🗣️💖

#pride #happy prideee #lgbtqia+

wildlymint

who’s ready for pride month? 🏳️‍🌈🪼🫧

🔗 more flag colours in folder here

#woahhhhh #pride #lgbtqia+

willgrahamscock

I noticed you haven’t been online in 10 hours, is therapy finally working?

this websites hate mail game is ruthless

willgrahamscock

is therapy not working anon?

willgrahamscock

I’m cocked in for my tumblr shift boss

willgrahamscock

It’s illegal to bully people with dickslexia so have fun in jail

50-shaeds-of-fae

mikkeneko

well heaven forbid that tumblr user willgrahamscock should be made fun of for a penis typo

capriceandwhimsy

tumblr user willgrahamscock is probably NOT the best judge of whether therapy is working or not.

uncahier

momento-more

@elodieunderglass - This made me think of you.

elodieunderglass

Thank you so much for this

#do yall think it would be possible to bake a horse-digestion friendly cake?#like people do for their dogs #do people do that for their dogs?#im sure they do #right?

chinchillion

MY SCHOOL PRESIDENT (2023) episode 04 TICKET TO HEAVEN (2026) trailer

#ticket to heaven #my school president

grakkie

Duke appreciation, let him interact with his siblings more often dc 🙏

#duke thomas #tim drake #dick grayson #damian wayne #cassandra cain #jason todd #bruce wayne #dcu #batfam

zhabe

I LOVE YOU MONTREAL VICTOIREEEEEE 😊😊😊😊

#pwhl #montreal victoire

hearteyesilya

imagine winning the walter fucking cup with your wife!!!

#pwhl #montreal victoire

emoi-aftonhockey

HANG IT IN THE LOURVE

renthony

I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."

Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.

Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.

Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.

You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.

At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.

#louder for the people in the back. please.

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