{"id":29582,"date":"2026-01-15T14:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=29582"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:17:52","slug":"red-threads-the-south-asian-queer-connection-in-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/red-threads-the-south-asian-queer-connection-in-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Threads &#8211; the South Asian Queer Connection in Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xlbf6X4GM0Y?si=4cfHy7aqGcDVuhIT\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (0:22): A quick leaf through the photography book, Red Threads (2004) by Poulomi Desai and Parminder Sekhon.<\/p>\n<p>Red Threads: The South Asian Queer Connection in Photographs<br \/>\nby Poulomi Desai (Photographer), Parminder Sekhon (Photographer)<br \/>\nHardcover<br \/>\nPublished by Diva Books April 1, 2004<br \/>\nThis hardback, gold embossed book is now out of print.<\/p>\n<p><em>Red Threads<\/em> is a ravishing, sublime and insightful photographic book by two very different British Queer South Asian photographers, Poulomi Desai and Parminder Sekhon. Tracing their contrasting portraiture work since the 1980&#8217;s and 1990&#8217;s, their images explore layered, complex issues of sexuality, gender, race, class and identity within wider political contexts. With brilliant essays by Sunil Gupta, Raman Mundair and Cherry Smyth. <\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (0:22): A quick leaf through Red Threads (2004) by Poulomi Desai and Parminder Sekhon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1511],"tags":[1178,1175,1139],"class_list":["post-29582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-book","category-india","tag-cherry-smyth","tag-parminder-sekhon","tag-poulomi-desai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29584,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions\/29584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}