Reviews
Making Queer Worlds
- By Subhalakshmi Gooptu
"They say This world isn’t for you
Why then was I born into it, if it wasn’t for me."
These lines hit you like a gust of unforgiving wind. Almost two-thirds through the book, editors Aditi Angiras and Akhil Katyal have tricked you. Lulled with poems of joy, resistance, freedom, love and escape, you flip through pages quickly, looking for more. But some poems stop you in your track. To startle you. Phurbu Tashi’s “This World Isn’t For You”...