The Queer Archive for Memory Reflection and Activism is a multimedia archive chronicling and preserving the stories of gender and sexual minorities in India.
It’s been 5 years since the Supreme Court decriminalised all consensual sex among adults, including homosexual sex...
Read our latest blog post at: qamra.in/2023/09/06/5-years-…
The Archives at NCBS and QAMRA Archival Project, NLSIU, with the Alternative Law Forum:
Contested Terrain: Lawyering for Forest Rights
Shomona Khanna in conversation with Radhika Chitkara
15 September 2023, 6 PM, ALF
Link: qamra.in/2023/09/08/shomona-…@Archives_NCBS@altlawforum
Join us for the screening of the film, A Human Question, followed by an audience interaction with the director, T. Jayashree!
For more info: qamra.in/2023/08/18/a-human-…
We are delighted to invite you to a public lecture by Prof. Ruth Vanita being organised as part of The NLS Public Lecture Series.
Please join us at 5 PM on 3 August, 2023, in Room 104, OAB, NLSIU!
New Blog Post!
How can we know the dancer from the dance?: Rituparno Ghosh’s Cinema
In filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh’s (1963-2013) Noukadubi, a couple, separated from their legitimate spouses after a boat wreck...
(More: qamra.in/2023/06/15/rituparn…)
New blog post!
Working Lives: Documenting Labour Histories
…I will be autobiographical to start with, in order to say that this interest in labour, and labour history, came out of my experience as a journalist, who had the freedom...
(More: qamra.in/2023/06/06/working-…)
Join us as Georgie, Tejal and Balbir reflect on their friendship, and the relationship between media and art in India over two decades.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
The QAMRA Archival Project and the Centre for Labour Studies invite you to a conversation on
Working Lives: Documenting Labour Histories
2 May 2023
5:15 – 6: 30 PM
Room 101, OAB
More Info: qamra.in/2023/04/27/working-…
New Blog Post!
QAMRA Talks: Conversation with Lesbian Herstory Archives, NYC
Following three months of conversations and planning, the QAMRA Archival Project, NLSIU and the Lesbian Herstory Archives, NYC...
(Read more: qamra.in/2023/04/10/lesbian-…)
New Blog Post!
Vivek Divan at NLSIU: Archiving Justice Movements of the Marginal
Vivek began with a recollection of a cleric from a small town who...
(To read more: qamra.in/2022/12/29/vivek-di…)
The QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU invites you to a public lecture by Prof. Craig Konnoth on Epistemic Discrimination!
Date: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Time: 5 PM
Venue: Allen & Overy Conference Room, First Floor, Training Centre.
We are excited to invite you to a warm, intergenerational online conversation between the QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU, Bengaluru, and the Lesbian Herstory Archives, New York City, on 4 March 2023 at 5:30 PM (IST).
For more details and to register: qamra.in/qamra_talks_lesbian…
QAMRA organized a collective deliberation on Marriage Equality with petitioners Akkai Padmashali and Uma, and legal scholar Arvind Narrain on 10 February 2023.
The queer archive is committed to creating spaces where people may…
Read more: qamra.in/2023/02/10/marriage…
This Friday: 10 February, 2023!
Join us at the Alternative Law Forum for a discussion on Marriage Equality, and the same-sex and marriage for all petitions.
Check out our latest blogpost by Tekla Emborg, third year exchange student from Denmark at NLSIU:
The first ever official Ultimate Frisbee (ultimate) match was held on NLS grounds...
To read more, click: qamra.in/2023/01/06/a-queer-…
IFA in collaboration with the QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU Bengaluru invites applications for:
IFA-QAMRA Creative Project and IFA-QAMRA Scholarly Project.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 4 January, 2023.
For more information: qamra.in/2022/11/21/ifaqma22…
Inviting you to a QAMRA Talks event:
"Archiving Justice Movements of the Marginal: Lessons from Queer Emancipation & HIV Struggles" by Vivek Divan, and a discussion by Prof. Kunal Ambasta, NLSIU.
Please join us at 4 pm on 28 December 2022 in Room 201, NAB, NLSIU.
Announcing: Archiving Workshop!
Only 15 seats available!
Venue: Alternative Law Forum
Date: 10 December 2022
Time: 2 pm to 5 pm
Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Greetings from QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU!
We are delighted to invite you to our first on-campus event, featuring @anujagupta, @KunalAmbasta, Ashwini and Arun!
Hope to see you there!
Please contact 918722031067 or write to us at qamraarchive@nls.ac.in for any queries.