Mihir R
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socio-legal doctoral student
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![Veronica might have been too shy to talk, but she overcame that limitation through her circulation of nonverbal signs. Veronica was a fan of the music of Milan Singh, a female who performed in the male persona of
"Milan." Veronica brought one of Singh's cassettes to Sakhi and showed it to Cath: "Cath just showed it to Giti [Thadani]. Giti looked at the cassette, looked at Cath and said [about Milan], 'Definitely 1oo percent dyke.' It was the first time I had heard this 'dyke.' I didn't know what it meant. I asked Betu, and she didn't want to tell me."
Veronica's "sizing up" by educated authorities would rely on the successful recognition of signs. The first in this case (and many others) was the haircut-a ubiquitous sign that is taken to have a symbolic, but also indexi-cal, relationship to lesbian desire. There was also trafficking in an iconic sign: Even after being sized up and brought into a lesbian community, Veronica still could not speak of her lesbian desire. But to signal her recognition of the terms of that sphere, she presented the authorities with a photograph of Milan Singh-a photograph that not only bore a resemblance to Veronica, but that further linked her to the image through her affective identification with it. The authorities did not have to point to Veronica and say, "Hey, dyke!" Instead, they "dyked" the image— an iconic sign
that could now serve as the premise linking Veronica to the logical conclusion of herself ("This is a dyke. I am like this. I am a dyke.").](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:scpmi37ctxikporvuw6y74yl/bafkreicqkxoi6q544pb5yzteyc2f3ccw3eevmztv7n45kjjmmti5gmdbdi@jpeg)