Academic, activist, artist. Believes in glitter, neon, paisleys, sequins, mehndi, mohawks, dessert, materiality, and feelings. Abstract, but not obscure.
Black is apparently me after too much sun. My aunty in Bangalore asked, “Who’s going to marry you if you’re so black?”
By KareemPuff Mar 26 2016 |
This short video features interviews with a few members of the Bangalore-based queer dance group, The Pink Divas, as well as footage from rehearsals and performances.
By KareemPuff Feb 19 2015 |
Shazad Hai is the MSM Outreach Coordinator at ASAAP where he coordinates HIV/AIDS outreach and prevention based programming for self-identified South Asian queer men and is the lead on the “Colour Me Queer” project.
By KareemPuff Nov 17 2012 |
I put this video up on YouTube for Amitabh's 70th birthday.
By KareemPuff Nov 2 2012 |
Student of the Year was simply an apology by Karan Johar for being a flamboyant, closeted, powerful homosexual who takes pleasure in flaunting shirtless muscle queens for his own liking while refusing to show actual compassion to gay people.
By KareemPuff Oct 31 2012 |
I’ve recently witnessed several instances of straight men compassionately representing gay or queer men on stage.
By KareemPuff Sep 7 2012 |
As the host of Jai Ho!, Chicago’s queer Bollywood night, I perform as my alter-ego Lahore Vagistan, a desi drag queen trying to make it from the Chicago stage to the Mumbai screen.
By KareemPuff Aug 14 2012 |
Tyler Clementi has clearly been significantly memorialized by the barrage of “it gets better” videos that poured onto YouTube after his suicide.
By KareemPuff Jun 21 2012 |