Selected Occasional Publications

 “Biennale By the Sea.” The Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 1 March. 2015.

“From HIV to trafficking: Shifting Frames for Sex Work in India.” (excerpted from Chapter 1, Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai, Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), Open Democracy: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery (blog), 26 January. 2015.

“From the Land of What Might Have Been.” Special Issue on Politics in the South Asian Diaspora, Himal South Asian Magazine, 27(4): 104-117. 2014.

“Gloria Steinem vs. Prostitution in India.” Huffington Post, 28 November. 2014.

“Protesting Modi at Madison Square Garden.” Al Jazeera America, 7 October. 2014.

“Private View: As museums increasingly move into commercial spaces, new tensions emerge in artists’ alternative histories.” The Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 1 October. 2014.

“Queering Diplomacy: Shifts in US Foreign Policy Reflect the Globalisation of LGBT Politics.” The Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 1 May. 2014.

“Why We’re Not Losing: Decoding Indian Sexuality Politics in an Election Year.” SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection. Vol. 42. 2014.

“The Challenge of New Delhi, Steubenville, and Amherst.” Pioneer Wired Magazine, 22-23, March. 2013.

“Reflections on the spatial politics of sex work in documentary film.” Seminar 636: 72-74. 2012.

“What Kamathipura (Mumbai’s Largest Red Light District) Means Today.” Special Issue on Sex Work, Himal South Asian Magazine, 23(8): 26-30. 2010.

“Sex Work and Ethnography.” Anthropology News, 51(2): 35-36. 2010.

“Making Sense of the Second Generation.” Economic and Political Weekly, 44(30): 14-17. 2009.

“A Briefing of Two Meetings on Human Trafficking.” Sexuality Policy Watch, Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association, 23 January. 2009.

“The City’s Red Lights: Mumbai’s Boom Town of Migrant Laborers.” $pread Magazine, 4(3): 40-43. 2008.

“Life at Mumbai’s Nakas.” Infochange Agenda: News and Analysis on Social Justice and Development Issues in India, July. 2008.

“Hijras, a Police Crusade and an Action.” SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection. 30. 2008. 

“Mississippi Mutiny Challenges Anti-Trafficking Law.” SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection. 29. 2008.

“The World Social Forum Revisited, or Why We Should Care about the WSF.” SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection. Vol. 17. 2004. 

“Out and Out Radical: Sexuality and the South Asian Progressivism in the US.” SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection, Vol. 14. 2001.

“A Report-back from the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR).” The Public Eye (from Political Research Associates).15(3):19-21. 2001.