Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction *stan 1
5. Mehfil 1
6. 1 Of Girls, Desire, and Sacred Things 23
7. 2 Loving Men, Loving God 31
8. 3 Fixed Possibilities 49
9. 4 Spaces of Critique, Spaces of Desire 65
10. 5 Partitioned Listening 83
11. 6 Miraji’s Poetics for Queering History 100
12. 7 This Is Home after All 118
13. After Heather Love, and Others 121
14. Mehfil 2
15. 8 Temporal Nonconformity 125
16. 9 On the Other Side of the Rainbow? 146
17. 10 A Queer History of Pakistani Art 166
18. 11 Beyond Hooking Up 184
19. 12 How I Like It 203
20. 13 Queer Desi Formations 216
21. 14 Queer in a Time of Kashmir 236
22. Afterword 251
23. Contributors 257
24. Index 263