Description
***Out of Print***
Within this compilation, the British Asian Queer experience is meticulously chronicled, delving into themes of race, identity, sexuality, and culture. It ultimately offers the reader and viewer a collection of positive and vibrant depictions of queer visibility.
These photographs have been showcased everywhere, from Calcutta to New York, from fetish nights to the pristine walls of the Photographers’ Gallery. They have adorned safe-sex posters and been projected onto various surfaces. Illustrated in full colour, they capture individuals who defy conventional categorisations: queer Asian Brits, Bollywood queens in drag, women dressed in men’s suits, or confidently baring themselves in the street.
This unique book is excellent for academic study and as a decorative piece for a coffee table, thanks to the insightful opinions of three avant-garde cultural theorists: Sunil Gupta, Raman Mundair, and Cherry Smyth.
The groundbreaking “Red Threads” is the first of its kind, representing an unmissable opportunity for insight and reflection. Published in hardcover as a coffee table book, it debuted on April 1, 2004.
About the Authors:
Poulomi Desai is a British photographer, multi-media artist, curator and an activist community worker. A self-taught outsider artist originally inspired by a street theatre background, her works are performative, textual, image based, and acoustic – both digital and analog. Wikipedia
Parmendar Sekhon
A self-tahught photographer known for her work in Butch and Femme, Nothing But the Girl and elsewhere, Parminder Sekhon has worked since the mid-1990s with the Naz Project, an HIV and AIDS network based in West London. Her new collection of photographs with Poulomi Desai, Red Threads: The South Asian Queer Connection in Photographs (Diva Books), spans a striking and subversive array of South Asian queer images, from queens in Bollywood drag to butch-femme couples to a provocative series of nude urban portraits.
