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Chaitanya Lakkimsetti’s work focuses on gender, sexuality, law, and citizenship. Their empirical and theoretical research employs transnational intersectional approaches to study sexual and gender inequalities in a global context. Lakkimsetti's book, 'Legalizing Sex: Sexual Minorities, AIDS Citizenship in India' (NYU Press, 2020), along with related articles published in 'Signs' and 'Qualitative Sociology', examines how sexual and gender minorities are demanding legal and political citizenship in contemporary India, particularly in the context of the global HIV/AIDS crisis. They utilize a Foucauldian lens and biopolitical and postcolonial frameworks to analyze these relationships. Additionally, Lakkimsetti is involved in interdisciplinary collaborative projects, notably co-editing the dossier '#Metoo Transnational Gender Justice' (2021) and the upcoming anthology '#MeToo Politics: Transnational Feminism' (NYU Press, 2025). Their current project 'Demanding Death: Rape, Death Penalty, Vigilante Violence in Contemporary India' studies the growing demands for the death penalty and extrajudicial killings related to rape. Lakkimsetti has published articles on rape vigilantism and state violence in 'Signs: Journal of Women, Culture, and Society'.
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