Invite: Our Lives Our Tales - Early queer activism in Delhi

[Nazariya QFRG]

Dear friends, 

Greetings from Nazariya!

As a part of it's Our Lives Our Tales (OLOT) series, Nazariya is organizing part two of the conversation on early queer activism in Delhi. Pramada Menon, Vani Subramanium and Purwa Bharadwaj will share their personal stories as part of the early queer activist community in Delhi

​ specifically as a part of Voices Against 377 and CALERI. ​

​Day & date: Saturday, May 7th 2016

Venue: ANHAD - B5 Basement Nizamuddin West, New Delhi - 110013

Time: 6 to 8 pm

About Our Loves Our Tales (OLOT): ​

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Nazariya had an idea to organise talk sessions with individuals who have been involved in queer activism (including but beyond 377)

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 decades. The idea came to us when we received a donation of some old (now obscure) publications by queer collectives. After going through the books we realized that people who are in their 20s or people who haven't been involved in queer activism as much might have never heard about the

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collectives, the people involved, their challenges and the lives they led.

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The histories of our movement are vastly underrepresented and unrecorded. As generations of feminists and queer activists pass along, legacies are disjunctured and weakened. One of our objectives as Nazariya is also to preserve and record material from the past that create a history and legacy. A queer legacy will strengthen our movement and validate the existence of queer realities.

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Through Our Lives Our Tales series​

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we want to create

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a series of

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talks given by people who have lived queer lives and fought battles for the queer movement, as a way of preserving and passing along oral histories that might otherwise be lost with them.

Thank you and regards, 

​Nazariya Team 

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Nazariya: A Queer Feminist Resource Group

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​ (Monday to Friday - 10 am to 6 pm)

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