Pakistan Desires

“In this volume Pakistan emerges as a valuable site from which to think queer not only because it is forgotten in the scholarly and global imagination, but because it is richly complex in its gender and sexual politics. Pakistan Desires is an urgent re-narration of Pakistan as well as an important call to queer studies to more seriously engage the Muslim world, see the limits of the field’s universal theorizations, and to ask how else queer can manifest elsewhere.” - Kareem Khubchandani, author of (Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife) “This extraordinary collection of literary, aesthetic, ethno-historical, art-historical, and sociological writings on queer thought, lives, and politics in Pakistan captures the pulse of a defiant, restless, and fierce creativity: it is what makes Pakistan Desires such a pathbreaking collection.” - Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, author of (The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories)

Omar Kasmani is Guest Lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin and author of Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan, also published by Duke University Press.