1 Nrivijana Patrika [Journal of Anthropology], 2015 Vol-20, Department Of Anthropology, J.U. Bangladesh. Page: 21-32 Forget about names, talk about politics: Identity politics and dilemma of Trans/‘Hijra’ recognition Nasrin Khandoker “There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself--whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc.--because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. But once you do that, then you've lost because then you become acquired or bought by that particular essence of yourself, and you've denied yourself all of the energy that it takes to keep all those others in jail.” Audre Lorde: Interview." Denver Quarterly 16.1 (1981:10- 27). Introduction The problems with identity politics highlighted by Audre Lord arise within critical scholarship and political activity that focuses on power relations between presumed social groups like gender, class, race etc. The reason to focus on identity is the presumption that power relations work through categorical identification,