TY - JOUR TI - Sikh queer community navigates invisibility as the ‘terrorist-monster’ DO - https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3R49TXR PY - 2017 AB - In this research, I examine some of the dynamics that complicate our understanding of how Sikh queer groups relate to feminist and queer spaces within mainstream North American and South Asian diaspora. Due to their racial, ethnic, and sexual difference they are marginalized within mainstream and South Asian queer spaces. My research looks at the multiple aspects of their marginalization, including their religious identity by which the Sikh community is characterized as a “terrorist-monster” within the post-9/11 era. I begin to ask some critical questions regarding the invisibility of the Sikh queer and feminist groups within mainstream and South Asian feminist spaces, and interrogate the premise upon which the human rights discourse is situated. Furthermore, I critique the notion of the “safe space” within mainstream and South Asian queer politics using the standpoint of the Sikh queer subject. Finally, the vast presence of a virtual Sikh queer community, as an alternate to traditional forms of advocacy, allows us to gain insight into the complex ways in which Sikh queer groups navigate their marginalization as an ‘outsider-within’ the mainstream, South Asian feminist and queer groups, and the larger heteronormative Sikh community. KW - Women's and Gender Studies KW - Feminism--Religious aspects--Sikhism LA - eng ER -