Kareem Khubchandani

Kareem Khubchandani is Associate Professor and Interim Chair of Theatre, Dance, and Peformance Studies, and Associate Professor of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. He is the author of two award-winning books, Decolonize Drag (OR Books, 2023) and Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020). He is also the co-editor of the Lambda Literary-nominated Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2021). LaWhore Vagistan is your favorite aunty’s favorite aunty—always over-dressed, over-educated, and over-opinionated. Her music videos, including “Sari” and “There’s a Stranger in My House,” have been featured at film festivals in Mississauga, Hyderabad, Austin, and San Francisco. In 2009, she co-founded the queer South Asian party Jai Ho! in Chicago, and in 2023, she launched Dragistan, an annual South Asian drag showcase in New York.