QAA is a trans led collective invested in creating art informed care systems and crisis support frameworks in critical areas affecting trans folks.
THE FUTURE IS QUEER
THE FUTURE IS QUEER
Queer art and Action
art curated by and for trans people and Queer trans allies. our collective imagines the world where are artists are policy makers. through manifesto building and practical, critical action we are working towards a truly trans inclusive future where we are all liberated.
New Mythologies was born out of a need and desire to create and realise our collective stories. Using a lens of intersectional feminism, New Mythologies is a method of exploring the unconscious mind and it’s potential for healing.
By rewriting our Mythologies we explore our dreams, grief and potential for a new world that is rooted in togetherness and cross movement allyship. It is an exercise in world building as we co-write, edit and trust each other with the enormous vulnerability that is part of the creative space.
This project has taken place across the world with different communities across borders.
Imagining Utopias is a growing archive by Queer Art and Action. It compiles gender diverse imaginations and reclamation of lost histories. It is an act of mourning turned into celebration, a loss we fill with fiction, our laughter and collective joy.
This is a project that aims to ask important questions about lost, invisible South Asian queer ancestry, and the futures we, as a people, imagine for ourselves. This archive is a compilation of conversations we've had in workshops and public spaces about a world without binaries.
The project worked with over 200 individuals, scattered across rural, suburban south asia, diaspora and bipoc communities in europe, the middle east and the us.
Project Almirah, in collaboration with artist Avril Stormy unger, was a website that provided a safe space to document stories of queerness and of coming out during the pandemic.
the website had interviews in podcast format. For a span of more than three months, Avril dedicated herself to conducting interviews with individuals who had come out during the pandemic.
After the taliban takeover of afghanistan in May 2021, we worked closely with activist and writer nemat sadat and helped evacuate dozens of trans and queer persons from afghanistan.
Due to the sensitive anonymous nature of the project we launched an artivist campaign to raise awareness and fundraise for the evacuation efforts.
Amra Odbhuth Was a community cafe, crisis and art center which operated in Calcutta, india between 2016 to 2021.
The community in Calcutta was searching for a place for trans and queer performance. After being shunned from several establishments under the guise of “Crown Appropriate” we started amra odbhuth which hosted a range of monthly performances, screenings. We had trans people from all over the world perform.
Amra odbhuth provided trans youth shelter particularly during the covid-19 pandemic to protect them from domestic abuse.
The space hosted over 50 events that were attended by thousands of people across calcutta, west bengal, india and the world at large.