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Two plays about the legal battle to decriminalize homosexuality in India. 

On September 6, 2018, a decades-long battle to decriminalize queer intimacy in India came to an end. The Supreme Court of India ruled that Section 377, the colonial anti-sodomy law, violated the country’s constitution. “LGBT persons,” the Court said, “deserve to live a life unshackled from the shadow of being ‘unapprehended felons.’” But how definitive was this end? How far does the law’s shadow fall? How clear is the line between the past and the future? What does it mean to live with full sexual citizenship?

In Love and Reparation, Danish Sheikh navigates these questions with a deft interweaving of the legal, the personal, and the poetic. The two plays in this volume leap across court transcripts, affidavits (real and imagined), archival research, and personal memoir. Through his re-staging, Sheikh crafts a  genre-bending exploration of a litigation battle, and a celebration of defiant love that burns bright in the shadow of the law.

Reparations are not only about money, legal remedy, or moral repair. They are about the radical reimagining and remaking of a world still deeply scarred by colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism. Bringing together scholars, activists, and practitioners from across the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, Australia, and beyond, Reparation and World Remaking asks what genuinely transformative reparations might look like—and shows that, in many places, they are already underway.

Drawing on theorizations from Indigenous, Black, feminist, First Nations, and critical antipodean traditions, the volume extends reparative thinking by attending to the contributions of scholars of decoloniality, post-development, abolition, feminism, community economies, and environmental and climate justice. Reparation and World Remaking illuminates the many ways world remaking reparations are already being envisioned and enacted, in communities and movements across the globe.