Debanuj DasGupta

Debanuj DasGupta is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the South Asia Studies Initiative at the Ohio State University. His dissertation “Racial Regulations and Queer Claims to Livable Lives” interrogates the intersection of HIV/AIDS and immigration regulation, along with the cultural politics of queer migrant activism in New York City within the past two decades. Debanuj integrates a mixed-method approach towards an analysis of trans/border travel of LGBT and Disability rights activism. He has worked for over 16 years across two continents in the “civil society sector.” Debanuj’s work has been published in The Scholar & Feminist Online, South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection (SAMAR), make/shift, and the WhiteCrane Journal.