On June 3, 2011, four people were brutally killed by the police in Bhajanpur village of Farbisganj, Bihar. Those killed were Pasmanda Muslims. In this article, the political and social implications of that incident have been analyzed.

बिहार के फारबिसगंज के भजनपुर गांव में पुलिस ने 3 जून, 2011 को चार लोगों की क्रूरतापूर्वक हत्या कर दी थी। मारे गए लोग पसमांदा मुसलमान थे। इसे आलेख में उस घटना के राजनीतिक, सामाजिक निहितार्थों का विश्लेषण किया गया है।

Analysis of the communal violence that took place on September 14, 2011 in Gopalgarh town of Rajasthan

राजस्थान के गोपालगढ कस्बे में 14 सितंबर, 2011 को हुई सांप्रदायिक हिंसा का विश्लेषण

वर्ष 2009 में प्रकाशित यह लेख बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री रहे नीतीश कुमार के कुनबावाद की पड़ताल करता है।

पेरियार पर केंद्रित तीन हिंदी किताबों के प्रकाशन के बाद मुझे कुछ रोचक और कुछ त्रासद अनुभव हुए, यह छोटी सी टिप्पणी उसी के बारे में है।

In August 2019, Prof Avijit Pathak and Prof Apoorvanand have written two poignant pieces on the government-sponsored maligning of JNU and the fall of the university, published in The Wire and the Indian Express, respectively. Taking the discourse forward, Forward Press managing editor Pramod Ranjan emphasizes the need for those fighting to save…[Read more]

इस लेख में यूनिवर्सिटियों में सामाजिक न्याय की अवहेलना के कारण होने वाले नुकासान की चर्चा की गई है। लेख में कहा गया है कि प्राध्यापकों का मुख्य काम शिक्षण, यानी ज्ञान की व्याख्या करना है। ज्ञान का निर्माण एक सतत प्रक्रिया है, जो समाज में घटित होती है, यूनिवर्सिटियां भी इस प्रकिया का उतना ही अंग हैं, जितना किसी किस…[Read more]

Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. The award recognizes Joubin’s a…[Read more]

This is an email I sent a friend on May 24, 1994, to help them upload a file in Word Perfect. Using Pine. and Raphael and Kermit. Really.

This is an email I sent a friend on May 24, 1994, to help them upload a file in Word Perfect. Using Pine. and Raphael and Kermit. Really.

This special issue on contemporary performance proposes “trans” as method and as a social practice rather than as an immutable identity category that stands in opposition to more established ones such as cis-gender men or cisgender women. We ask new questions about Shakespearean performance: How might the meanings of the plays change if we…[Read more]

Gender is a set of interpersonal relationships and social practices that evolve in the presence of other people , in social spaces, and over time. My theory of trans lens corrects the institutionalized cis-sexism that assumes the cis status of even those characters with fluid gender practices. It does so by questioning the purported neutrality of…[Read more]

This interview with Dr. Mary Ann Saunders, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, offers a new interpretation of Julie Taymor’s 2010 film The Tempest. Bringing her life experience to bear on cisgender biases in non-trans artists’ works, Saunders proposes a new interpretation of Ariel, as performed by Ben Whishaw, as a trans woman who is “both beautiful…[Read more]

This interview with Terri Power, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, focuses on the representations of trans masculinity in Power’s play Drag King Richard III. For nearly two decades Power has been at the forefront of trans and queer representation in performances of Shakespeare. Weaving a personal story of the 1990s with Shakespeare’s early modern d…[Read more]

This interview with King Sammy Silver, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin and Terri Power, explores drag as a stage practice. A London-based actor and YouTube personality, he represents a new generation of trans artists. He has worked with Power on multiple Shakespeare productions at Bath Spa University in the UK and elsewhere, and has been…[Read more]

This interview with non-binary actor Jess Chanliau, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, explores genderplay onstage. A bilingual actor, Chanliau has played Viola, “an intrinsically trans character” in Twelfth Night and a queer Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. They spoke candidly on their experience of either being toke-nized or being cast frequently as…[Read more]

Using a qualitative method of research, the study investigated the increasing use of traditional medicine in Ghana, focusing on Afigya Kwabre South District. Traditional medicine has gone through various stages since time immemorial, especially with regard to how its patronage has evolved over time. The period ranges from the pre-colonial era,…[Read more]

You read it everywhere. Everyone talks about it, always as a value in itself. We are all haunted by it, not least at universities, not least in the humanities, by the ubiquitous requirement to be innovative. Projects that do not require innovation would not receive the grace of funding in an academic system that is both bloated and thinned out at…[Read more]

Cross-gender roles and performances permeate many of Shakespeare’s plays. This special issue on contemporary transgender performance of Shakespeare was published by the open-access journal dedicated to Shakespeare and appropriation, Borrowers and Lenders, and edited by Alexa Alice Joubin. It contains research articles and interviews of actors. S…[Read more]