Celebrating Insurgent Love on Valentine’s Day
In India, Valentine’s day is the time when patriarchal authorities can exercise the powers of moral policing that they have bestowed upon themselves. Acting under the banner of Indian civilization, which supposedly legitimizes their war against “Western” ideas of romantic love, vigilantes will subject young men and women to “head shavings, face blackening, public thrashings and forcibly solemnized marriages”. “Politically-connected[Read More…]