Last session of #smsi2024 featuring conversations on people and culture in India - queer culture w/ The Queer Muslim Project changing language of communication w/ Shephali Bhatt and emerging extremist pop music w/Kunal Purohit

April 9, 3.45 PM US Eastern / 1.15 IST

influencers.conference.si.umich.edu

Reminder: Your deadline to apply to participate in the Queer Muslim Project's Queer Writers' Room is rapidly approaching! Go to bit.ly/TQWR2024 and find out what you'll need to submit by Sunday, March 17.

Attended this fab conference last year and it was the most gratifying three days I've had! So many friends and people I admire this year - Shephali Bhatt Rajshri Deshpande Balram Vishwakarma | बलराम विश्वकर्मा The Queer Muslim Project Hussain Haidry Dhanya Rajendran!

Great lineup joyojeet pal, I have so much FOMO now 👏🏻👏🏻

Join us on the 10th year of #FiveFilmsForFreedom ! 🌈🎬

Dive into 5 short LGBTQIA+ films & get cozy for a fireside chat with Kumar Chheda (Halfway).

🗓 13 Mar 2024
🕔 5 PM
📍 British Council Delhi
✉️ RSVP: lnkd.in/g6KbyeV2

British Council in India UK in India🇬🇧🇮🇳 Alison Barrett Becks Buckingham

Hear what our past fellows have to say about The Queer Writers’ Room!

2024 highlights include a writing retreat in Sri Lanka in May & mentors from International Writing Program!

Apply at bit.ly/TQWR2024

Deadline: 17.03.2024

Supported by U.S. Consulate Mumbai

I was really proud to host the evening with Prash Palanimalai!
Queer representation in its own right is paramount.
❝We matter and we are not going anywhere!❞

🏳️‍🌈Celebrating #MumbaiPride & the culmination of the QueerFrames Screenwriting Lab, a beautiful initiative by The Queer Muslim Project, supported by The French Institute in India & sponsored by Netflix India.

A really joyful soirée with eminent personalities from LGBTQ community at the Residence of France.

In collaboration with U.S. Consulate Mumbai, The Queer Muslim Project is empowering young LGBTQIA+ writers and driving a narrative change through a 10-week creative writing program. Read more! #SPANMag
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#PrideWeekendInMumbai 🏳️‍🌈 Screening of the award-winning 🇫🇷 film “Two of us (Deux)” by Filippo Meneghetti followed by a Panel discussion on “Pathways to #Queer Inclusion in #Cinema ” between filmmakers, directors, actors & screenwriters.

🏳️‍🌈A lecture by Ms. Juliette Grandmont, a BAFTA winner film producer & currently the Head of Film Department at The French Institute in India, on “How to work with France: Co-Production, Shooting, and Distribution Strategy”.

Organized by The Queer Muslim Project

#PrideWeekendInMumbai 🏳️‍🌈
#LGBTQ +

'We are fighting every day to make sure that we can be heard equally as human beings.'

UN Human Rights Deputy High Commissioner Nada Al-Nashif on why Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights matters to her.

#HumanRights75

An excellent opportunity for those working to amplify LGBTQIA+ and other minority issues!

Since 2005 the UN Minorities Fellowship Programme has brought voices of minorities to the UN & beyond. 

I was honoured & inspired to meet these brave #humanrights defenders who are dedicated to promoting & protecting human rights around the world as they #StandUp4HumanRights

32 UN Human Rights Minorities Fellows visited the Swiss Parliament today!

They had opportunities to exchange with officials on minority protection in 🇨🇭, including:
- #language diversity in the media with SRG SSR;
- international cooperation for #HumanRights with Swiss Peace and Human Rights.

[BREAKING] Supreme Court says no to same-sex marriage or civil union; CJI recognizes civil unions in minority opinion

report by Debayan Roy

#SupremeCourt #SupremeCourt ofIndia #SameSexMarriage

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BREAKING: Supreme Court of India will pronounce its verdict on #MarriageEquality tomorrow.

We have been here before. We will be back here again. Regardless of the outcome, we will continue to live and love and resist with pride ❤️

The Queer Muslim Project is amplifying LGBTQ+ voices globally.

Tonight, join them for 'an evening of poetry, performances, and lots of mingling in London!'

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🗣️ Celebrating #NationalPoetryDay with behind the scenes highlights from BBC Contains Strong Language Festival with The Queer Muslim Project #SimonArmitage LEEDS 2023

'You have a unique voice and a story to tell ... and there is power in individual stories.' - Hafsa Bukhary

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#queerpoetry