Decoloniality, Queerness, Indigeneity : Thinking through the Indigenous Queer and the queerly Indigenous in Nepal
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Abstract
Even though many of the activists within the Nepali LGBTI+ movement are from adivasi janjati/Indigenous and other ethnic minority groups, and the movement as led by NGOs claim vernacular categories and cultural references from within these groups as 'LGBTI+', there has been little concerted engagement with these references and what they mean. Instead, class, caste, ethnic and language hierarchies are deeply implicated in the use of these terms whereby the vernacular terms and people who use them are placed lower in the hierarchy than those who have access to terms and discourses in the English language. This reflects trends reported in other countries like India and Bangladesh in South Asia, including in the colonised territories of the US, Canada, New Zealand or Australia. In this paper, I utilise the concept of queer indigeneity to reflect on such queer hierarchies and simultaneously on how the indigenous is made queer within the dominant Hindu state of Nepal. By queer indigeneity, I mean to refer to the myriad ways in which the ‘queer’ figures within indigenous cultural practices that defy and simultaneously reify normative understandings of gender/sexuality. I will particularly draw from the example of men who perform the Tharu jhumra nach as well as other instances of gender crossing within different indigenous contexts to see what we might learn about how modernity and coloniality might operate to marginalise both the Indigenous and the queer. Doing so would highlight how such narratives might be subsumed under not just hegemonic cisgender, heteronormative frameworks but also under more cosmopolitan articulations of what it means to be queer.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.061 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".