Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Issue 52, November 2025


Fatness, Queerness, and Neurodivergent Narratives
of Intersectional Identities in Media and Pop Culture


guest edited by Neha Kumari

Papers

Fatness, Queerness, and Neurodivergent Narratives of Intersectional Identities in Media and Pop Culture
Neha Kumari

'Am I disgusting?' Exploring the Spatial Embodiment of Fatqueer and Neuroqueer Bodies in Cinema
Parveen Kumar

Brainless Bullies and Frantic Bodies: A Qualitative Study of Select Indian-Broadcast Animated Programs
Kashish and Arosree Biswal

The Error in the System: Fat, Queer, and Neurodivergent Bodies Against Algorithmic Futurism
Himani Choudhary

Excess and Otherness: Fatness, Witchcraft, and Queer Deviance in Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle
Pragya Sinha and Meghna Prabir

Neurodivergent Narratives, Fatness, and New Materialistic Agencies: Rethinking Traumatised Bodies in Double XL and Disfigured
Rajesh Bharvad and Neha Kumari

Beyond the Margins: How Indie Films are Redefining Fat, Queer, and Neurodivergent Narratives
Shraddha Tripathi, Kriti Vashishtha, Charu Dhankar, and Ruchi Joshi

Neuroqueering the Ableist Spaces: Rethinking Post-Normative Possibilities through Neurocosmopolitanism in the Graphic Novel, The Thud
Aritra Ghosal and Shri Krishan Rai

'Normal' vs 'Abnormal': A Socio-Cultural Perspective of Neurodivergence in Sitaare Zameen Par
Saumya Agarwal and Nagendra Kumar



Additional Paper

'Angry Young Women': Evolving Forms of Female Resistance in Contemporary Bollywood Cinema
Neda Parvin Shaikh and Sonia Ghalian


Book Review Section
edited by Kumiko Kawashima and Muhammad Safdar

Tsurumi Shunsuke
The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume
reviewed by Flora Roussel

Veenus Jain
Devadasis of India: Tradition or Travesty
reviewed by Vaidehi Uniyal and Debapriya Ganguly

James Welker (editor)
Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia
reviewed by Ashley Remminga

Alvin K. Wong
Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone
Unfortunately the university leadership of the reviewer strongly disagreed with publication of this review. It has regretfully been withdrawn.


Contributors


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