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    Samachar, Vol. 8
    Volume 8 of Samachar, the newsletter of LOTUS, published for Mar/April 2001. Includes a note about fundraising efforts for the Gujarat earthquake of January that year.
    Interview with Shazia Siddiqi
    Shazia Siddiqi was born in Texas and raised in California for most of her life. She is a first-generation American-born to parents who emigrated from Pakistan in the 1970’s. She is the eldest with one younger brother. Her whole family is hearing. Her parents found out she was deaf at 3 and half years old.
    Oral History Interview with Mani Soma
    Mani Soma performs as the drag artist KaMANI Sutra. In the oral history, Mani describes growing up in India, navigating a queer relationship as a teenager, helping to organize a flash mob at Osmania University, finding south asian LGBTQ community after immigrating to the DC area, and their experiences performing as a drag artist.

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    Daniel Sunkari Oral History Interview
    Daniel Sunkari is a writer living in Long Beach, California. He details his family’s journey from the rural community of Guntur to Sacramento, and the discrimination they faced as Dalit.
    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 Shanti Kumari Bhatia