Status Updates From Impossible Desires: Queer D...

...the value of diaspora...lies in its critique of the nation form on the one hand, and its contestation of the hegemonic forces of globalization on the other...
Theories of diaspora that emerged out of Black British cultural studies... particularly those of Gilroy and Hall... use the term (diaspora) to reference ... a conception of identity which lives with and through, not despite, difference; by hybridity.

Impossible Desires examines a range of South Asian diasporic (art) ... to ask if we can imagine diaspora dufferently....by paying special attention to queer female subjectivity in the diaspora.

Reading diasporic texts as translations may seem to run the risk of reifying the binary between copy and original; it risks stabilizing the ‘‘nation’’ as the original locus that diaspora merely attempts to replicate. Just as the nation and the diaspora are mutually constitutive categories, by extension so too do the ‘‘original’’ national text and its diasporic translation gain meaning only in relation to one another.