edition of 5 plus 2 AP.

“Transness and queerness always existed. We existed long before Europeans invaded South Asia grafting their particular brand of imperialism onto the legacies of  past colonizers, marrying whiteness with casteism, entrenching homophobia via their penal code, and pushing our identities further into the margins. Anti- freedom. Anti- what is.” 

– Nandani Bharrat, Bollywouldn’t

 ID: A daytime photo of exterior of Victoria & Albert Museum, a decorative ye olde London building. On half its main building’s entrance is a Bollywood poster mural of a slender person with moustache, beautiful joined eyebrows and body hair, their skin in light-medium golden-amber tones. They wear a hairstyle and outfit deconstructed from Disney’s Jasmine and Aladdin – blue bandeau top, purple half-vest, blue headband with jewel, gold necklace and one chunky triangle earring, amber waist band and blue bottoms. They are engulfed from below waist down in red flames that also fill the background where red-toned Aladdin and Jasmine scream at the fire rising from the main figures raised hands. In large block-cursive letters is the black and white title ‘I’m not Jasmine, I’m not Aladdin’