Queeritude décoloniale : quels enjeux, quelles possibilités ?

Suturing decolonial thinking to transnational queer narratives, this essay aims to problematise accounts of coloniality/modernity that emplace eurocentred thinking in a dialectical relation to other formations of knowledge. Specifically, it offers a reassessment of contemporary queer paradigms in the geopolitical west and its other, South Asia. Focusing on South Asia as the geographical location that is traditionally associated with the repression of all forms of sexuality and simultaneously as the site of orientalised fictions of (homo)sexual promise, the essay attempts to borrow from insights of two established fields of critical inquiry, i.e., decolonial studies and queer theory. In staging this encounter, it aims to theorise decolonial queerness, developing epistemic tools for a decolonial critique of global queerness which obliterates particularised gender and sexual arrangements that escape legibility in standard accounts of queer studies.