Ishita Srivastava’s Desigirls! has been picking up more press and was featured last week on After Ellen. The documentary on queer desi girls (and featuring Sholay’s own Ashu Rai) will also be shown in Delhi at the end of this month. Kudos to Ishita for making a much-needed and fab film!

The queer south-asian dance party desilicious celebrates nine years of bolly good fun. Generally when one thinks of Indian women, the first thing that comes to mind is a midriff-bearing Bollywood heroine. That’s all thanks to our awesomely representative global entertainment market.Maybe you think of a shampoo ad or Apu’s wife from The Simpsons. Each representation places the Indian woman in some skewed, heteronormative context. But what about all the Indian

Check out a special screening of DESIGIRLS!, presented by NYU Cinema Studies ithis Friday, May 7th at 7pm. Directed by Ishita Srivastava, who recently completed her Masters degree in Cinema Studies from New York Unioversity’s Tisch School of the Arts, the short documentary highlights NYC’s South Asian lesbian community. It focuses on three characters: ‘A’ who might never be able to open up to her family about her lesbian identity;