Netflix’s Never Have I Ever and Indian Matchmaking to the BBC’s A Suitable Boy – are beginning to tell our stories, these can sometimes focus on ‘exotic’ cliches of the culture (such as arranged marriages) rather than offering nuanced, authentic stories.
If finding other South Asians in television wasn’t hard enough, finding femme queer ones that represented me was even more of a challenge.
While talents such as Tan France, Lily Singh, Jameela Jamil and Dr Ranj Singh are constantly breaking boundaries and speaking out; for me, what was still lacking was someone who embodied an unapologetically femme energy.
Someone my younger self who loved designing clothes for my Bratz dolls, wearing towels as wigs and lip-syncing to Britney songs,.