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BE/LONGING: Homelands in Photography

QAMRA ARCHIVAL PROJECT PRESENTS BE/LONGING:Homelands in Photography A conversation between Sarah Jabbari and Georgina Maddox 11 MARCH 20245PMCR01, NLSIU LIBRARY SARAH JABBARISarah Jabbari was born in Tehran, Iran, and developed an interest in photography at the Tehran Visual Arts School.…
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The Little Girls That We Were… and the Women We Are

The Centre for Child and the Law and the QAMRA archival project, NLSIU present a National Award Winning Film by RAHI Foundation The Little Girls That We Were… and the Women We Are Saturday, October 14th 2023 6:30pm The Ballroom,…
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Contested Terrain: Lawyering for Forest Rights

The Archives at NCBS and the QAMRA Archival Project, NLSIU, are organising a public lecture by Shomona Khanna, followed by a conversation with Radhika Chitkara, at the Alternative Law Forum Contested Terrain: Lawyering for Forest Rights Archives at NCBS |…

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5 Years Since Navtej

5 Years since Navtej QAMRA | 6th September 2023 It’s been 5 years since the Supreme Court decriminalised all consensual sex among adults, including homosexual sex.  Visit the Archives to…
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How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance Dr. Kaustav Bakshi | 6th September 2023 QAMRA remembers the contributions of iconic filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh in the tenth year of…

KEEPING QUEER IDENTITES ALIVE

Watch the trailer from the T. Jayashree Collection at QAMRA!

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QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU, Bengaluru

The Queer Archive for Memory Reflection and Activism is a multimedia archival project which aims to chronicle and preserve the stories of communities marginalised on the basis of gender and sexuality in India.