"(This book) is a gripping ethnography of hijras and
their communities. Saria details the intimate, social, and economic
structures that determine how hijras craft their lives, whom and
where they love, and the losses they grieve. With startling insights,
Saria shows how hijras shape and reshape those very experiences.
An iconoclastic, vivid, and deeply meaningful book."
- Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Vaibhav Saria is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. They received their PhD in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University in 2014. Saria is also a member of QuTUB, an international team of researchers working to advance methodologies to measure and improve the quality of tuberculosis care.