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They are wives who choose not to work and enjoy being a traditional homemaker; a ‘trad wife.’ No, this is not a scene from a 1950’s movie, it is 2023 and a snippet of what to expect life as a trad wife to be.
This paper considers the dance and activist labour of a group of cis- and transgendered performers who lobby for the decrimininalisation of sex work in India. Known as Komal Gandhar, the group operate out of Sonagachi, Kolkata and are the cultural wing of the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a collective of over 65,000 sex workers. Based on in-depth interviews with Komal