GRSJ 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heterosexuality, Heteronormativity, Chutney Popcorn

• School: UBC
• Department: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
• Course: GRSJ 300
• Professor: Manjeet Birk

Document Summary

"rituals of queer diaspora in nisha ganatra"s chutney of popcorn" - Chutney popcorn is a film that explores ethnic diaspora + sexuality (queerness) About 2 sisters --> reena and sarita (reena is a lesbian and sarita is trying to establish her ethnicity) The film establishes a setting made for the queer diaspora and concludes with an optimistic ending of multicultural + accommodating. North american family (hinting at the possibility of a future - as the ending is quite open ended) Henna is used to establish the idea of female intimacy and how heterosexuality did not necessarily come first (as the film opens with. Reena and her partner drawing henna on each other - goes against the idea of heterosexuality being the original) Matches the process of marriage in sarita --> film suggests they are both embarking on a journey. Becomes an diasporic and lesbian practice --> used to evoke eroticism with lesbian sex.