Nigah Queerfest '10: Queer 101 Workshop

As a part of QueerFest 2010, Nigah is conducting a workshop on basics of sexuality, coming out, and queerness. Nigah has also worked on some documents/guides related to these issues. At recent QueerCampus Delhi public meetings, we've had discussions on a range of questions related to coming out and sexuality. Input and comments from these meetings have been added to the guides which will be released at the Nigah workshop.

There are two workshops, one in English and the other, in Hindi. These workshops are happening on 30th November, 2010. If you want to help out QueerCampus with approaching colleges and organizing campus events/discussions, please do come for these workshops. We'll also have a few members from QueerCampus who will be attending both English and Hindi workshops.

If you wish to attend these workshops as a part of QueerCampus or if you have any queries, drop us a mail at qcampus.india@gmail.com

These are the details of the workshop-

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English I हिन्दी

***Please forward widely***

Queer 101

Venue: Kunzum Café, T-49, GF, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi

Dates: Tuesday, November 30.

Time: 7- 9 PM

What does it mean to be Queer? How does it differ from being gay? Is it a choice? Is it natural? Is it normal? Is it against Indian culture?

There are hundreds of questions that we encounter, when we’re figuring out our sexuality or helping someone figure out theirs. Nigah invites you to a fun, interactive workshop on finding your answers to the basics of Sexuality, Queerness, Coming Out and being yourself.

cheers,
Nigah

***कृपया व्यापक रूप से फॉरवर्ड कीजिये***

क्वीयर 101

स्थान: सहेली, दूकान नंबर १०५-१०८ के ऊपर, डिफेन्स कालोनी फ्ल्योवर मार्केट, नई दिल्ली ११००२४

समय: शाम को ७ से ९ बजे, मंगलवार, ३० नवम्बर

क्वीयर होने का मतलब क्या है? वो "गे" होने से अलग कैसे है? क्या ये एक तरह का विकल्प है? प्राकृतिक है? सामान्य है? क्या यह भारतीय सभ्यता के विरुद्ध है?

जब हम अपनी यौनिकता या किसी और की योनिक्ता को समझने की कोशिश करते हैं तो हमे हजारों सवाल का सामना करना पड़ता है. निगाह आपको आमंत्रित करता है एक मज़ेदार और संवादात्मक कार्यशाला मे जहां हम यौनिकता के इन अनेक सवालो के जवाब साथ खोजेंगे!

आपकी,

निगाह की टोली

QueerCampus India (QCI)- Delhi public meeting- November 20, 2010

TIME:

Saturday. Nov 20, 2010

3PM-5PM

PLACE:

Yodakin

2, Hauz Khas Village

Hauz Khas

New Delhi

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Campus India invites you to come and join for our public meeting at Yodakin Bookstore!

We will continue our ongoing discussion on coming out and sexuality. Feel free to discuss your views because it'll help us in compiling experiences from a wide range of queer individuals of all age groups while addressing these issues from a youth centric perspective.

Later this month we will be coordinating with another queer group in the city and participating in sexuality and coming out workshops so as to reach a wider student audience. We'll talk about these workshops in the meeting and we invite you to attend them as a part of QueerCampus.

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QueerCampus India- this is your space to speak your mind, share your experiences with respect to coming out, family, friends, realization of your sexuality, your specific interests or what you expect from a queer youth support group like QCI. Feel free to give ideas or suggestions for QCI. We will also talk about implementing future QCI objectives- like organizing QCI in other cities, ways of reaching out to queer youth, QCI activities etc.

YODAKIN is a bookstore which is an independent publishing house that focuses on urban studies, sexuality and gender, among other subjects. Yodakin is a Queer-friendly space and will be hosting this QCI meeting and more in the future. Yodakin stocks a number of books on gender and sexuality and we will read and discuss passages from some of these books during the meeting. Also, anyone attending the meeting is free to bring a passage or poem they want to share!

Phone: 9999096097 (Please feel free to contact QCI for any query)

The venue can easily be reached by a 10 min walk from the two nearest metro stations i.e. Green Park and Hauz khas.

QueerCampus India (QCI)- Delhi public meeting- November 20, 2010

TIME:

Saturday. Nov 20, 2010

3PM-5PM

PLACE:

Yodakin

2, Hauz Khas Village

Hauz Khas

New Delhi

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QueerCampus India invites you to come and join us for our public meeting at Yodakin Bookstore!

We will continue our ongoing discussion on coming out and sexuality. Feel free to discuss your views because it'll help us in compiling experiences from a wide range of queer individuals of all age groups while addressing these issues from a youth centric perspective.

Later this month we will be coordinating with another queer group in the city and participating in sexuality and coming out workshops so as to reach a wider student audience. We'll talk about these workshops in the meeting and we invite you to attend these workshops as a part of QueerCampus.

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QueerCampus India- this is your space to speak your mind, share your experiences with respect to coming out, family, friends, realization of your sexuality, your specific interests or what you expect from a queer youth support group like QCI. Feel free to give ideas or suggestions for QCI. We will also talk about implementing future QCI objectives- like organizing QCI in other cities, ways of reaching out to queer youth, QCI activities etc.

YODAKIN is a bookstore which is an independent publishing house that focuses on urban studies, sexuality and gender, among other subjects. Yodakin is a Queer-friendly space and will be hosting this QCI meeting and more in the future. Yodakin stocks a number of books on gender and sexuality and we will read and discuss passages from some of these books during the meeting. Also, anyone attending the meeting is free to bring a passage or poem they want to share!

Phone: 9999096097 (Please feel free to contact QCI for any query)

The venue can easily be reached by a 10 min walk from the two nearest metro stations i.e. Green Park and Hauz khas.

QueerCampus India (QCI)- Delhi public meeting- November 13, 2010

Time: 3.00PM - 5.00PM

Location:

Yodakin

2, Hauz Khas Village,

Hauz Khas, (Near Hauz khas & Green park metro)

New Delhi, India

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Queer Campus India invites you to come and join for our public meeting at Yodakin Bookstore ►

Queer Campus India- this is your space to speak your mind, share your experiences with respect to coming out, family, friends, realization of your sexuality, your specific interests or what you expect from a queer youth support group like QCI. Feel free to give ideas or suggestions for QCI. We will also talk about implementing future QCI objectives- like organizing QCI in other cities, ways of reaching out to queer youth, QCI activities etc.
YODAKIN is a bookstore which is an independent publishing house that focuses on urban studies, sexuality and gender, among other subjects. Yodakin is a Queer-friendly space and will be hosting this QCI meeting and more in the future. Yodakin stocks a number of books on gender and sexuality and we will read and discuss passages from some of these books during the meeting. Also, anyone attending the meeting is free to bring a passage or poem they want to share!


So see you on Saturday!


Phone: 9999096097 (Please feel free to contact QCI for any query)

The venue can easily be reached by a 10 min walk from the two nearest metro stations i.e. Green Park and Hauz khas.

QueerCampus India (QCI)- Delhi public meeting- November 6, 2010

Time:

November 6, 2010

Saturday, 3.00PM-5.00PM

Place:

Max Mueller Bhavan

Atul Grove Lane

Connaught Place(near Barakhamba road metro station)

New Delhi

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Join us for a discussion on 'coming out' and 'sexuality'!

# We'll continue and conclude our discussion on 'coming out' that we started at our previous meeting.

Share your understanding of this term, your experience of being 'out' or bring along any relevant material in form of passages/poems/articles etc that can offer a perspective on 'coming out'.


#We'll start with a discussion on 'sexuality' with an aim to gradually address a broad range of questions related to it. Initially, we'll focus on the following-

1) Will homosexuality negatively impact the family?
2) Is homosexuality unnatural?
3) Is homosexuality abnormal?
4) What makes people gay? Does something have to ‘happen’ in order to make a person gay?
5) Is homosexuality a mental disease?
6) What about Bestiality/Paedophilia?
7) Can homosexuality be cured?
8) Does homosexuality lead to spread of HIV/AIDS?

Feel free to bring/refer/share any resource on this topic that can help develop a better understanding of such questions, from a scratch!

We hope that this discussion will serve as a way to document some general ideas on 'coming out' and 'sexuality' which may belong to the entire spectrum of queer individuals of various age groups. We also hope that it helps us to address these issues from a youth-centric perspective, so that it can form a basis for student-interactions and campus visits that QCI plans to hold in future. Join us and contribute to the initiative!

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QueerCampus India- this is your space to speak your mind, share your experiences with respect to coming out, family, friends, realization of your sexuality, your specific interests or what you expect from a queer youth support group like QCI. Feel free to give ideas or suggestions for QCI.