QueerCampus India (QCI)- Delhi public meeting- October 23, 2010

TIME:

Saturday, October 23, 2010

3 pm - 5 pm

LOCATION:

Yodakin 2 Hauz Khas Village

Hauz Khas

New Delhi, India

(Near Green Park/ Hauz Khas metro station)

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◄ QueerCampus India invites you to its bi-weekly public meeting at Yodakin Bookstore►

Join us for a discussion on 'coming out'! 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'. For a start, we can address the following questions-

1. What does coming out mean?

2. When does one come out? Or how do we know when the time is right?

3. To whom does one come out?

4. How should one prepare oneself and others for coming out?

5. Individual coming out experiences. everyone can discuss how they did it, or how they want to do it, or why they haven't done it yet.

6. Some coming out 'tips', especially for youth. You can also share links to any online resource or website that may be of help.

We hope that this discussion will serve as a way to document some general ideas on 'coming out' which may belong to the entire spectrum of queer individuals of various age groups. We also hope that it helps us to address this issue 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.


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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.

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.

QueerCampus India (QCI)- Delhi public meeting- October 9, 2010

TIME: Saturday, October 9, 2010

3PM-5PM

LOCATION:

Yodakin 2 Hauz Khas Village

Hauz Khas (5 min walk from Hauz Khas and Green Park Metro)

Delhi-110 16

New Delhi, India

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◄Queer Campus India invites you to come and join for our bi-weekly 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!

Also, stay back after the meeting for a performance by Jana Natya Manch from 7 PM onwards at Yodakin. Details are available below and the Yodakin FB page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Delhi-India/yodakin/218073975901.

So see you on Saturday!

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

The venue can easily be reached by a 5 min walk from the two nearest metro stations i.e. Hauz khas and Green Park.

QueerCampus India (QCI)- Delhi public meeting- Sept 25, 2010

TIME: Saturday, September 25 · 3:00pm - 5:00pm

PLACE: Max Mueller Bhavan,

Atul Grove Lane, Connaught Place (Near Barakhambha Road Metro Station)

New Delhi

Introduction and interactive discussion session for the attendees. Share your experiences and ideas/suggestions for QCI.

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1) We'll talk about group structuring for QCI and various ways of doing the same.

2) We'll focus on our first college meeting. We'll initiate discussion regarding a 'QCI talk and activity' session for colleges- something fun and interactive.

3) and a lot more. . .

If you can help us to arrange a meeting at your college, please contact at qcampus.india@gmail.com.

You can help us to approach the administration of your college, or get us some contacts regarding the same. We need campus spaces to hold QCI meetings because it'll allow us to get more visible among the general college-going youth and initiate a queer call.


PS- This Time the meeting won't be conducted in the Hall area. Instead of that, the meeting will be held in the cafeteria.


-- Also, please email us if you'd like to have the contact number of one of our members.

QueerCampus India(QCI)- Delhi public meeting- Sept 11, 2010

Date: Saturday, September 11, 2010

Time: 3PM-5PM

Location: Max Muller Bhavan

Atul Grove Lane

Connaught Place (Near Barakhambha Road Metro Station)

New Delhi

QueerCampus India is a queer collective for students/youth which provides a space to share your experiences/interests, find a support group and hang out. We have been meeting every second and fourth Saturday of the month.

For this week's QueerCampus meeting, come with anything that you would like to perform or read out - either at the meeting or in the future.

It could be poetry, or nonsense verse, excerpts from books, passages from other pieces of writing which you have found interesting.

It could be music, or an idea for a play that you might have had.

It could be your own work or somebody else's work that you have found inspiring, fun, and something that you would like to share with others. (if anybody else's work is being presented, do remember to give credit to the author/artist)

Note that it needn't be a finished product, we are just here to discuss our ideas with each other.

Cheers and hope to see you all there. Please spread the word!

QueerCampus, New Delhi

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116217135068834#!/group.php?gid=116217135068834&ref=ts

QueerCampus India (QCI)- Delhi public meeting-- Aug 14, 2010

Time: August 14, 2010

3.00PM - 5.00PM

Location: Max Mueller Bhavan

Atul Grove Lane, Connaught Place (Near Barakhambha Road Metro Station)

New Delhi, India

Introduction and interactive discussion session for the attendees. Share your experiences and ideas/suggestions for QCI.

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1) We'll talk about group structuring for QCI and various ways of doing the same.

2) We'll focus on our first college meeting. We'll initiate discussion regarding a 'QCI talk and activity' session for colleges- something fun and interactive.

If you can help us to arrange a meeting at your college, please contact at qcampus.india@gmail.com.

You can help us to approach the administration of your college, or get us some contacts regarding the same. We need campus spaces to hold QCI meetings because it'll allow us to get more visible among the general college-going youth and initiate a queer call.

-- Also, please email us if you'd like to have the contact number of one of our members.

QueerCampus India(QCI)- Delhi public meeting

Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010

Time: 3PM-5PM

Location: Max Muller Bhavan Cafe

Max Muller Bhavan, Atul Grove Lane

Connaught Place (Near Barakhambha Road Metro Station)

New Delhi

Introduction and interactive discussion session for the attendees. Share your experiences and ideas/suggestions for QCI.

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One of our aims at the meeting would also be to understand the term 'queer'- how we relate it to different aspects of our life and the society at large. Feel free to bring along any relevant material/text on your part- newspaper articles, magazines or a book.

The text that we have selected for the above discussion includes two chapters from the book, 'Because I Have A Voice', by Arvind Narrain and Gautam Bhan.

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#We'll start discussion with the 'Introduction' chapter which can be read online at the google book preview.

Read introduction

#Rest of the chapters from the book or other texts selected for discussion will be scanned and uploaded at our google group. Join in!

QCI google group

Or drop us an email and we'll send them to you. Also, please email us if you'd like to have the contact number of one of our members.

qcampus.india@gmail.com

QueerCampus India(QCI)-Delhi public meeting

Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010

Time: 3PM-6PM

Location: Max Muller Bhavan Cafe

Max Muller Bhavan, Atul Grove Lane

Connaught Place (Near Barakhambha Road Metro Station)

New Delhi

3PM - 5PM
Introduction and interactive discussion session for the attendees. 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. Share your experiences with respect to coming out, family, friends, realization of your sexuality, your 'rainbow life', your specific interests or what you expect from a queer youth support group like QCI.

5PM - 6PM

Introductory workshop on queer youth support spaces