Desh Pardesh Flyer (3rd Annual)
Flyer for the third annual Desh Pardesh South Asian arts festival in Toronto. Dated March 24 to March 28, 1993, and lists a number of speakers, musicians, speakers (including author Michael Ondaatje), theatre acts, and dance performances.
Desh Pardesh Festival Program (1995)
Program for the fifth annual Desh Pardesh festival in Toronto, dated May 10-14, 1995. The program lists the scheduled workshops and events and includes a number of advertisements from festival sponsors.
Desh Pardesh Presents "Delicate Essence Cafe"
Flyer for an event hosted by the annual Desh Pardesh festival in Toronto; it describes a play written by Uma Kali Shakti entitled Delicate Essence Cafe. The play was performed on Wednesday, May 10, 1995.
Desh Pardesh Festival Program (1996)
Program for the sixth annual Desh Pardesh festival in Toronto, dated June 5-9, 1996. The program lists the scheduled workshops and events and includes a number of advertisements from festival sponsors.
Desh Pardesh Festival Program (1997)
Program for the seventh annual Desh Pardesh festival in Toronto, dated June 11-15, 1997. The program lists the scheduled workshops and events and includes a number of advertisements from festival sponsors.
Oral History Interview with Rangoli
Anish, Deepshikha and Satvika are co-founders of Rangoli, an LGBTQ+ South Asian group based in Pittsburgh, and editors of Mirrors, an LGBTQ+ South Asian anthology. They describe their personal histories individually followed by a discussion on how their involvement with Mirrors and Rangoli.
Urooj Arshad Oral History Interview
Urooj Arshad is a co-founder of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity and the first LGBTQ+ Muslim Retreat. In the oral history, Urooj describes growing up in Pakistan and Illinois, finding LGBTQ south asian community during college, and ongoing activism to resist islamophobia and queerphobia.
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Oral History Interview with Anjali R.
Anjali R. is the founder of Parivar, a trans and queer south asian space in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the oral history, Anjali describes growing up in India, exploring different permutations of gender expression while moving throughout the U.S. and Canada, and navigating transphobia within queer south asian spaces.
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Oral History Interview with Bishakh Som
Bishakh Som is the author of the graphic novel Apsara Engine. In the oral history, Bishakh describes growing up in Ethiopia and New York, studying and practicing architecture, "hatching" as a trans person, and storytelling through illustration.