Part of the Desi Undead collection, Forbidden Love is a celebration of the queer love that is often shunned within the culture I was brought up in. Whilst not outwardly homophobic, my parents and community instilled in me the goal of ending up in a heteronormative marriage, becoming a loyal housewife, and providing children for my husband. I rejected this idea from an early age, but very quietly. Although I rebelled by having boyfriends, I was too afraid of the consequences of ever bringing up my queer identity to my family and most of my friends. Recently, I have connected with many queer South Asians and realised that our experiences, whilst not identical, were very similar in the way that...