Maisnam Arnapal (any pronouns) is a PhD student in Feminist Studies at UC Santa

Barbara. He belongs to the Meitei Indigenous community from Manipur located in the

Indo-Myanmar borderland in Asia. A survivor of an ongoing seven-decade-long armed

conflict, he is interested in studying gender and sexuality with special focus on the

Indigenous peoples of Northeast India. He looks at armed conflict, nation-state, identity

politics, religious revivalism, popular culture, and globalization to study queer and trans

subjectivities and movements among the Indigenous peoples of the region.