Claire Pamment, Jeffrey A. Redding
Our conversations toward “Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia” began in the dismaying aftermath of the 2023 Pakistani Federal Shariat Court judgment in Hammad Hussain v. Federation of Pakistan. This judgment (now in abeyance while being appealed) deemed major portions of Pakistan's 2018 Tra...
Jeffrey A. Redding
Non-contiguous at inception, its western wing and eastern wing (now Bangladesh) bifurcated by thousands of kilometers of Indian territory, Pakistan has remained constellated with India. This is especially true regarding Kashmir. Moreover, Kashmir's uncertain political identity and agency provides a ...
Jeffrey A. Redding
In South Asian states as diverse as Nepal, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, transgender people have come to sit at the center of a rich conversation about how law can and should be used to counter social and political marginalization. The transformation in transgender law in these states has been re...