Abstract

Online Queer blogs have opened up spaces where alternative and non-normative sexual and gendered subjects articulate personal accounts of their sexual experiences, their queer love, desires, subjectivities, struggles and coming-out stories, etc. with vivid details. This paper will focus on and explore such non-canonical texts i.e. the virtual personal accounts in a few newly emerging video blogs (vlogs) on YouTube posted by Indian female queer subjects. It aims to understand how these narratives by non-heterosexual Indian women engender a queer practice that is concomitant with the claim: ‘the personal is political’. This will help locate the personal narratives of female queer sexualities in the broader context of queer politics in India. As community formation and community-belonging constitute a large part of any identity- politics, this paper also seeks an explanation of how a virtual queer community for women is formed through the sharing of personal accounts with an invisible (and often unknown) audience who often share similar subjectivities, desires and inscribes comments.