QABD is a community-based archive and we value the significance of engaging with the community. QABD facilitates lectures, training sessions, community discussions, and various events to activate our archival collection. This approach serves archiving as a means for collective thinking within our community.
Himal, the digital South Asian magazine of politics and culture, invited Queer Archives of the Bengal Delta to participate in a panel discussion.
10 December 2021
On Nov 12, Queer Archives of the The Bengal Delta organized a group discussions with community members to explore the concepts of archives.
12 November 2023
The co-makers of Moving Memories exhibit came together to talk about archiving.
14-22 November, 2022
The Feminist Studies Department of University of California, Santa Barbara invited Queer Archives of the Bengal Delta for a lecture on Feb 24, 2022.
24 February, 2022
Himal, the digital South Asian magazine of politics and culture, invited Queer Archives of the Bengal Delta to participate in a panel discussion.
10 December 2021
On July 12, 2021, Queer Archives of the Bengal Delta launched its first oral history project in collaboration with the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA).
12 July 2021
Queer Archives of the Bengal Delta organized a community dialogue following the murder of George Floyd in June, 2020.
June 2020
In Fall 2021 and Fall 2022, Queer Archives of the Bengal Delta led three invited sessions titled “Do Queers Need Saving?”, “Queering the Terrain of Geopolitics, Rights, Violence, and Representation”, and “Archiving, Migration, and Retelling” in a Gender and Global Politics course at the University of Minnesota.
Fall 2021
In this archivist talk, Queer Archives of the Bengal Delta shared the process of co-creating Moving Memories with Pan Asians In Action at Smith College.
10 November 2023
On Nov 12, Queer Archives of the The Bengal Delta organized a group discussions with community members to explore the concepts of archives.
12 November 2023
