ABSTRACT
This chapter cohesively ties together the arguments made throughout the book, re-asserting that it is the urgent need of queer politics in India and across the world to re-think the directions in which it is heading, already turning its back on lower class, lower caste queer subjects, and queer subjects of colour. The prevalence of critiques like homonationalism and pinkwashing demonstrate how queer politics can obfuscate other power differentials and lend itself to nationalist and imperial agendas. By reminding ourselves of sexual subaltern subjects who pay the cost of such problematic queer identity politics by giving up their lives, this chapter urges us to remember them, and remain responsible for them, as we move forward to imagine newer and more radical ways to queer politics.
