Queer Revelations

A Mead-Swing talk, by Dr. Omar Kasmani

Can a religiously inspired dream act as a queer vision in life? Bridging personal history with years of research among mystics in Pakistan, this talk offers an intimate account of a dream and its public afterlife, especially the multiple departures that followed in the wake of visions. In a migrant story spanning twenty years and four cities, displacement remains, desire comes out through encounters with the sacred, and queerness arrives like a sense of pilgrimage. Categories like religion, migration and queer are made companions. The talk invites us to appreciate dreams as queer revelations: partial word and deviant forces through which our ties to the world are made, unmade and remade.