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Durba Mitra

Durba Mitra teaches women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton University Press, 2020). icon

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“Remaindered Life”: Durba Mitra in Conversation with Neferti Tadiar

By Durba Mitra

“The survival of the world depends on the gendered work of subsistence and reproduction, carried out predominantly by women in the global South.”

“Mississippi Masala” @30: Revisiting a Film Classic in Authoritarian Times

By Durba Mitra

What might it mean to forge a politics explicitly based in the places we are, rather than a politics of the places from which we came?

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