HST 375: Modern South Asia

South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive documents and preserves the work of activists, grassroots organizations, and social justice movements committed to promoting the visibility and experiences of LGBTQAI+ people and women in South Asia and its diasporas.

SAADA has a number of oral history interviews and archival projects relating to sexuality. You can browse them either as curated by activists and scholars or by theme.

Reports pertaining to a number of conferences including the Indian Association of Women’s Studies Conference; the National Conferences on Women’s Movement in India from 1980–2000; UN World Conference on Human Rights; UN World Conferences on Population and Development; UN World Conferences on Women.

The text of the Toward Equality report of the committee on the status of women in India of 1974 and subsequent reports and government action.

Documents on a number of different issues around gender and sexuality in India.

These books are memoirs related to the effort to get a sexual harassment law passed in Pakistan in 2010.
Working with sharks: A Pakistani Woman’s Story of Sexual Harassment in the United Nations: From Personal Grievance to Public Law. Fouzia Saeed. 2013
The AASHA Experience: A Decade of Struggle Against Sexual Harassment in Pakistan 2001 to 2011. Fouzia Saeed. 2011.

The poster collection represented in this archive is physically located in the offices of the feminist organization, Sahiyar. Members of Sahiyar have designed and produced some of these posters. Many others they have collected from different women's groups and feminist organizations from all over India.

The poster collection represented in this archive is physically located in the offices of the feminist organization, Olakh (meaning Identity). Members of Olakh have designed and produced some of these posters. Many others they have collected from different women's groups and feminist organizations from all over India.

Zinedabaad Collective, based out of India, publishes zines and runs workshop. Their zines are often focused on gender and LGBTQ+ identity.

An Indian rural journalism website, featuring journalists who are women, Dalit, indigenous, or Muslim.