Ep 161: The History of Desire in India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Role of Language in the Landscape of Desire
Sarally: There are only two things in the world that have gender, physical human and animal beings and languages. Gender is what confers identity on human beings and animals, but for now we'll talk about human beings. Sarally: What i find fascinating is that languages can play a really interesting role an how we think about desire. And so for meds, which will shut down anything that does not fit into two genders, they say to us 'don't mock me any more'
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