Desifuturism

Artists and Creators

• Subash Thebe Limbu (NP)
• Maya Arulpragasam aka MIA (SL-UK-IN)
• Kai (Kari) Altmann aka Hitashya (US-IN)
• Omar Gilani (PK-UK)

Theorists & Critics

• Saddaf Padder

Discussions

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, Prateek Arora, Naveen Shamsudhin, "XLE.LIFE presents XLE.LIVE: #Indofuturism? #Desifuturism?", XLE.LIFE, Online, Mumbai, Zurich, April 2023.

Publications

Books

• Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms], Routledge, Oct 2023, 716 pp. Publisher.

Magazines, Journals, Blogs

• XLE.LIFE: New Terms 2024: Indofuturism(s) and Desifuturism(s), Kai (Kari) Altmann, March 22 2024.
• Kai (Kari) Altmann aka Hitashya's Top Ten of 2023 for XLE.LIFE, Kai (Kari) Altmann, March 15 2024.
• In Search of Inclusive South Asian Futurisms, Saddaf Padder, Hyperallergic, March 22 2023.

Essays, Book Chapters

• Ryan A D'Souza, "Imagining a Desi Future", South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 17, no.1, Apr 2 2019, pp. 47-59.
• Priteegandha Naik, "Dalit-futurist Feminism: New Alliances through Dalit Feminism and Indian Science Fiction", Journal of International Womens' Studies, Volume 22, Issue 10, Casteing Gender: Intersectional Oppression of Dalit women, Bridgewater State University, Oct 2021.
• Hina Siddiqui, "Cultural Futurism: Possibilities, Probabilities and Potential", ArtNowThus.in, May 2022.

See Also

Indofuturism, South Asian Futurisms, New World, Indigenous Futurism, Adivasi Futurisms, Global South Futurisms, Third Culture, Post Western, Tropical Futurism, Afrofuturism, Decolonization, AI, Sci-Fi, Queer Studies