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LABIA is an organization for queer and transgender people in Mumbai, India. It was founded in 1995 as Stree Sangam (transl. Womens Association), and is often cited as a significant organization in the history of LGBTQ organizing in India. According to The Hindu,

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  • LABIA is an organization for queer and transgender people in Mumbai, India. It was founded in 1995 as Stree Sangam (transl. Womens Association), and is often cited as a significant organization in the history of LGBTQ organizing in India. According to The Hindu, (en)
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  • LABIA is an organization for queer and transgender people in Mumbai, India. It was founded in 1995 as Stree Sangam (transl. Womens Association), and is often cited as a significant organization in the history of LGBTQ organizing in India. According to The Hindu, "When they started out, the name Stree Sangam was chosen because it seemed generic and sanitised, and wouldn’t call attention to itself on mailers that were the mode of communication then.…Circa 2002, this dichotomy was laid to rest, when the group christened themselves LABIA (Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action), and were unequivocal about welcoming trans people. The explicit reference to female genitalia was deliberate and combative, as the group increasingly saw themselves as public campaigners, than just enablers of screenings and soirées for closeted lesbians." Jaya Sharma and Dipika Nath describe LABIA as among the wave of "explicitly political activist groups…whose political activism combines with their role as resource organizations." An important tenet of LABIA's politics has been inter-sectionality — the idea that all systems of oppression are interlinked in many overlapping ways, which struggles for parity on any turf must take into account. LABIA's activities have involved networking with individual queer women and queer groups in India and in other countries, campaigning for the rights of peoples and communities of marginalized genders and sexualities and organizing feminist and people's movements jointly with the struggles of other marginalized groups. LABIA intends to further this activism and sees Scripts (see ) as a vibrant space for multiple conversations of queer/feminist/activist/creative voices. (en)
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