Rafiul Alom Rahman Email and Phone Number
I am the founder and director of The Queer Muslim Project (TQMP), Asia’s leading digital and cultural platform for Queer, Muslim and diverse voices, with a global community of over 70,000 people. We use art, culture and media to challenge harmful stereotypes and norms, build power and visibility of underrepresented LGBTQIA+ artists and storytellers, and enable them to shape their own narratives. At TQMP, I lead our growth and impact strategy, fundraising efforts, and develop key new programs and projects.I bring with me over 10 years of experience in gender and sexuality rights organising, arts management, strategic partnerships, communications, and advocacy. Among the projects I have delivered is ‘Language is a Queer Thing’, an international poetry exchange programme featuring 12 multicultural LGBTQIA+ spoken word poets from India and the UK through on-site residencies in cities such as Birmingham, Leeds and Mumbai, and showcases at major festivals, including BBC Contains Strong Language, Tata Literature Live and Spoken Fest.I have spoken at reputed international platforms, including the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, the UN Minority Forum in Geneva, Facebook South Asia Safety Summit, among others. In 2020, I represented India on the Generation Equality Global Youth Task Force set up by UN Women to strengthen gender-responsive action and achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.In 2017, I ran a popular online writing campaign called ‘Write For Pride’ in an effort to amplify the voices of young LGBTQIA+ individuals in Indian cities, which was recognised among the top campaigns of 2017 on the leading youth portal, Youth Ki Awaaz.I am a 2018 Acumen India Fellow, a 2020 Swedish Institute Leader Lab Fellow, a 2022 Cross Culture Programme Germany Fellow. In 2018, I was nominated as a ‘Young Changemaker’ by The Hindu Business Line. In 2020, the Human Rights Campaign recognised me as a ‘Global Innovator’ for my innovative use of social media to counter violent extremism and promote Queer-affirming conversations on faith. I am a member of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust Network.
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Founder, DirectorThe Queer Muslim ProjectDelhi, India
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Founder, DirectorThe Queer Muslim Project Mar 2017 - PresentNew Delhi Area, IndiaThe Queer Muslim Project is an award winning cultural platform and Asia’s leading digital network for queer, Muslim and diverse voices, with a growing global community of over 70,000 people. We use art, culture and media to challenge harmful stereotypes and norms, build power and visibility of underrepresented LGBTQIA+ artists and storytellers, and enable them to shape their own narratives. Our vision is to establish a creative pipeline for queer artists, storytellers, writers and organisers from underrepresented communities to take up transformative leadership roles everywhere that content is created: films, television, media, publishing, and social change movement building. We are the lead curator for British Council’s Five Films For Freedom program in India. In 2022, we delivered an international poetry residency as part of British Council’s India/UK Together Season of Culture program - Language is a Queer Thing - featuring 6 diverse Queer spoken word poets from India and the UK, with showcases at major festivals like BBC Contains Strong Language in Birmingham and Tata Literature Live in Mumbai. Our current programs include The Queer Writers’ Room, a creative writing and narrative change program for young South Asian writers in the age group 18-25, supported by the U.S. Consulate General Mumbai.In 2020, we partnered with Instagram to produce ‘Safe and Strong: An LGBTQIA+ Guide to Facebook and Instagram’. Together with the British Council and Instagram, we hosted two editions of our Digital Pride Festival in June 2020 and 2021, focused on celebrating and platforming LGBTQIA+ artists and creators in South Asia. As part of our strategic efforts to combat religious extremism in South & South East Asia, we continue to organise the Interfaith Preconference at the ILGA Asia Conference, in collaboration with GIN-SSOGIE - the recent one being held in Ho Chi Minh City in November 2022. -
FellowUnited Nations Human Rights Nov 2023 - Dec 2023Geneva, SwitzerlandLaunched in 2005, the Minorities Fellowship Programme (MFP) is OHCHR’s most comprehensive training programme for human rights and minority rights defenders belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities.At the end of the MFP, the fellows should have a general knowledge of the United Nations system, international human rights instruments and mechanisms in general and those relevant to minorities in particular. Fellows should also be capable of further training their communities/organizations.The Programme further serves as an opportunity for human rights activists working towards the protection and promotion of minority rights to expand their partners’ base. They do this by building a strategic dialogue with fellow activists from across the globe, the United Nations, and relevant Geneva-based NGOs, amongst other partners. -
Fellow - Crossculture ProgrammeIfa (Institut Für Auslandsbeziehungen) Jun 2022 - Nov 2022With its CrossCulture Programme (CCP), ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) is working in partnership with the Federal Foreign Office to build strong civil society networks between Germany and the rest of the world. Since 2005, professionals and committed volunteers from the fields of culture, education, human rights, science, sustainable development, arts and media have benefitted from the opportunities provided by work related stays, either in Germany or in CCP partner countries to expand their area of professional expertise and gather intercultural experience. -
Representative - Generation Equality Youth Task ForceUn Women Sep 2019 - Mar 2021During my mandate with the Generation Equality Global Youth Task Force, I helped set up the Youth Global Review of the Beijing Platform for Action at the 64th UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2020. I also represented India as a youth leader at the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference in Bangkok in November 2019. -
Fellow - Si Leader LabThe Swedish Institute May 2020 - Dec 2020SI Leader Lab is a programme for civil society leaders in South Asia, the MENA region and Sweden who are active advocates of gender equality. The programme is an opportunity for leaders to develop their advocacy skills and work on their strategic outreach. It is also an opportunity to grow as a leader, exchange experiences, form new connections and to try out innovative tools and methods with other people who work in a similar context.The training is founded on experience-based and collaborative learning and is as much about personal as professional development. It is about growing as a person with renewed confidence and insights, and growing as a leader with new tools, methods, and perspectives.A total of 51 participants from 14 countries participated in the programme. -
Global Innovator - Global Innovative Advocacy SummitHuman Rights Campaign Jun 2020 - Oct 2020''Through his work, Rafiul has pioneered an approach to countering extremism that utilizes alternative narratives around faith, sexuality and gender expression.'' - Human Rights Campaign -
Changelooms FellowPravah Sep 2018 - Mar 2019New Delhi Area, India -
India FellowAcumen Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 -
Founder, Community CoordinatorDelhi University Queer Collective Jan 2014 - May 2018In January 2014, I founded the Delhi University Queer Collective (DUQC), the first ever LGBTQ support group on Delhi University campus. Today, the collective has grown enormously as a movement – with membership in various undergraduate colleges in Delhi – and has brought about a major shift in the way LGBTQI rights is viewed in higher educational spaces in India. In April 2015, I launched ‘Zero Tolerance’, a campaign calling for an end to the violence directed against LGBTQ students and faculty members. It allowed me to channelize my own anxieties, fear and my resolve to raise awareness of campus homophobia despite the existence of a homophobic law, Section 377. I was featured by CNN IBN, a national news broadcaster that partners with Cable News Network, as a Citizen Journalist campaigning for a safe campus for LGBTQ students and teachers. The campaign gradually enabled more people to speak up against homophobic violence in Delhi colleges.I also facilitated the first ever Parents Support Meeting at the National Capital of Delhi and created a safe space, where parents and relatives of LGBTQ individuals shared deeply moving and powerful stories of love, acceptance and unflinching hope against social odds. This event was hugely successful, leading to subsequent editions, and the mobilization of culturally specific resources and tool-kits for parents and families of Indian LGBTQ individuals.
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Communications And Advocacy ConsultantUnited Nations Population Fund (Unfpa) Feb 2018 - Apr 2018New Delhi Area, IndiaDeveloped a process documentation of the Action for Adolescent Girls (Samriddhi) Project in Chhatarpur District, Madhya Pradesh through field visits, in-depth interviews and focused group discussions with different stakeholders. -
Teaching AssistantAshoka University Apr 2017 - Sep 2017Sonipat, Haryana, IndiaCourse Name: Women, Society and Changing IndiaSupervising Professor: Urvashi Butalia•Conducted interactive sessions with about 100 students to help them understand basic concepts of gender and sexuality and to trace the history of the women’s movement in India•Assessed individual student responses and offered in-person advising•Mentored students on gender and sexuality related issues through regular office hours and group discussionsCourse Name: Models of Religious Pluralism in South AsiaSupervising Professor: Dr. Neelima Shukla-Bhatt•Conducted interactive sessions with over 100 students to facilitate dialogues on the need for religious pluralism and creative engagement with diversity•Assessed individual student responses and offered in-person advising -
Teaching AssistantThe University Of Texas At Austin Aug 2016 - Dec 2016Austin, Texas AreaCourse Name: Introduction to the Study of SocietySupervising Professor: Mehdi Haghshenas•Developed lesson plans on a variety of sociological topics•Delivered lectures and conducted interactive instruction in weekly labs for around 100 students•Assessed student assignments and offered regular in-person advising -
Program ManagerI View World International Film Festival Oct 2015 - Mar 2016Delhi•Developed program content highlighting issues of gender, sexuality and marginalities in South Asia•Maintained social media communications, drafted fundraising proposals and business emails•Assisted the Festival Director with venue signage, managing film submissions, and designing publicity for the festival•Supervised interns and volunteers on day-to-day tasks•Assisted the Programming and Guest Services team with events, filmmaker logistics, screening introductions and leading Q & A sessions with audiences
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Resource Mobilization InternUn Women Jun 2015 - Aug 2015New Delhi Area, IndiaSupervisor: Nishtha Satyam, Deputy Country Representative, UN Women India MCO•Prepared talking points for the Country and Deputy Country Representatives on a variety of issues•Conducted desk research, drafted fundraising proposals and articles for the organization•Promoted ‘HeForShe’, the global solidarity movement of UN Women, aimed at bringing about gender equality•Managed social media outreach on Facebook and Twitter•Assessed trends in corporate social responsibility (CSR) among major Indian companies•Monitored external media outlets for relevant news topics•Identified new opportunities for collaborations with partner organizations
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Rafiul Alom Rahman attended Delhi University, Delhi University.
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