Shad
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Location | Los Angeles, United States |
| Introduction | I'm an effeminate gay boy from Delhi, India. I believe in feminism, marxism, confessions and struggles to stay alive. I am working on my PhD on writings about same-sex desire in Urdu, Hindi and Arabic literatures in the 20th c. |
| Interests | walking, keeping a journal, poetics, psychoanalysis, smoking, straight men. |
| Favorite Movies | Happy Together, La Ley del Deseo, Sum of Us, Pakeezah, Volver, Tarnation, Cabaret, The Night Porter, Dancer in the Dark, Victim, Wild Side, Khamosh Pani, Fox and his Friends, Salo |
| Favorite Music | Maria Callas, Gangubai Hangal, Siddheshwari Devi, Begum Akhtar, Kesarbai Kerkar, Nina Simone, Noor Jahan, Iqbal Bano, Rufus Wainwright, Antony, Aruna Sairam |
| Favorite Books | Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall, The Beauty of Men, Villette, Anna Karenina, Kulliyat-e Mir, SCUM Manifesto, The Satanic Verses, Giovanni's Room, Gravity and Grace, Paradise, To the Lighthouse, Jogajog, Yuganta, Angela Carter, Speaking of Siva |