Madrassa
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Read more: Kharabaat: Archiving the Male Sexual Culture of Lootis in Iran
Kharabaat: Archiving the Male Sexual Culture of Lootis in Iran
by Khajistan Cultural Desk
The following piece is a summary of a conversation between Saad Khan of Khajistan and Farhad Qashqai of Kharabaat. In a Khajistan podcast episod...Read more -
Read more: Pitcher and Dust
Pitcher and Dust
by Saad Khan
As a child, I wanted life around me to be seen in the media around me without a top-down gaze as lower-class stories are represented…imitated. As a grown man who could speak English, I got access to the guarded spaces of the upper and the middle classes, of rich diasporas and the whites. I wanted the life I had known around me to be understood by these others: the culture-makers, the trendsetters, the ones whose narratives are imperial, are heard, acknowledged, and lauded, and whose hot-takes, opinions, and stories are ‘nuanced’ and thus overwrite our stories. Read more
