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			'''Jaya Sharma''' is a queer feminist author<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-word-reached-the-fields/229581\|title = ...The Word Reached the Fields \| Outlook India Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.posterwomen.org/Posterwomen/?p=5993 \|title=Poster Women – A Zubaan project » Jaya Sharma \|website=www.posterwomen.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119183340/http://www.posterwomen.org/Posterwomen/?p=5993 \|archive-date=2016-11-19}} </ref><ref name="https://books.google.com/books=jaya+sharma+nirantar">{{Cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5uHIYv6LISMC&pg=PA259 \|title = The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context\|isbn = 978-0822349877\|last1 = Kester\|first1 = Grant H.\|date = 2011-09-12}}</ref> based in [[New Delhi]], [[India]]. She identifies as a [[queer]] [[feminist]] activist, working on issues of [[gender]], education and [[sexuality]]. As the founder of Nirantar and part of the sexuality education initiative within Nirantar, she is involved with [[capacity building]], research and advocacy.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.rahifoundation.org/rahi-board-of-trustees.html\|title=RAHI Board of Trustees\|website=RAHI Foundation\|access-date=2018-03-23}}</ref>
	'''Jaya Sharma''' is a queer feminist author<ref>http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-word-reached-the-fields/229581</ref><ref>http://www.posterwomen.org/Posterwomen/?p=5993</ref><ref name="https://books.google.com/books=jaya+sharma+nirantar">{{Cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5uHIYv6LISMC&pg=PA259 \|title = The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context\|isbn = 978-0822349877\|last1 = Kester\|first1 = Grant H.\|date = 2011-09-12}}</ref> based in [[New Delhi]], [[India]]. She identifies as a [[queer]] [[feminist]] activist, working on issues of [[gender]], education and [[sexuality]]. As the founder of Nirantar and part of the sexuality education initiative within Nirantar, she is involved with [[capacity building]], research and advocacy.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.rahifoundation.org/rahi-board-of-trustees.html\|title=RAHI Board of Trustees\|website=RAHI Foundation\|access-date=2018-03-23}}</ref>

	==Life and career==		==Life and career==
	She is a founder member of [http://www.nirantar.net Nirantar], a Centre for Gender and Education based in [[New Delhi]]. Nirantar is an [[NGO]] based in [[India]] that deals with [[feminist]] and [[LGBT]] issues. She has been working on the rights and education of women and the LGBTQ+ community for over fifteen years.<ref>https://insightbhutan.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/talking-lgbtq-with-indian-activist-jaya-sharma/</ref>		She is a founder member of [http://www.nirantar.net Nirantar], a Centre for Gender and Education based in [[New Delhi]]. Nirantar is an [[NGO]] based in [[India]] that deals with [[feminist]] and [[LGBT]] issues. She has been working on the rights and education of women and the LGBTQ+ community for over fifteen years.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://insightbhutan.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/talking-lgbtq-with-indian-activist-jaya-sharma/\|title = Talking LGBTQ with Indian Activist Jaya Sharma\|date = 4 December 2015}}</ref>

	She co-founded Pitara, a rural magazine which aimed at sustaining literacy in rural spaces by publishing relatible local and international news. This project was supported by Nirantar. The programme started in the wake of the total literacy campaign, and stopped functioning in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-word-reached-the-fields/229581\|title=...The Word Reached The Fields\|work=outlookindia.com/\|access-date=2018-02-10}}</ref>		She co-founded Pitara, a rural magazine which aimed at sustaining literacy in rural spaces by publishing relatible local and international news. This project was supported by Nirantar. The programme started in the wake of the total literacy campaign, and stopped functioning in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-word-reached-the-fields/229581\|title=...The Word Reached The Fields\|work=outlookindia.com/\|access-date=2018-02-10}}</ref>
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	She also co-authored a landscape analysis of early child marriage in India. The research was approached from a feminist perspective, analysing the influence of sociocultural norms on gender and sexuality. The research also considers interventions which could be further used by the government, NGOs, and researchers so they can empower girls to achieve greater autonomy over their lives.<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aONiDgAAQBAJ&q=jaya+sharma+nirantar&pg=PT46\|title=Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure\|last1=Jolly\|first1=Susie\|last2=Cornwall\|first2=Andrea\|last3=Hawkins\|first3=Kate\|date=2013-06-13\|publisher=Zed Books Ltd.\|isbn=9781780325736\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.nirantar.net/uploads/files/EM%20Report%20-%20English.pdf\|title=Early and Child Marriage in India: A Landscape Analysis.\|website=Narintar Trust\|access-date=2018-08-30}}</ref>		She also co-authored a landscape analysis of early child marriage in India. The research was approached from a feminist perspective, analysing the influence of sociocultural norms on gender and sexuality. The research also considers interventions which could be further used by the government, NGOs, and researchers so they can empower girls to achieve greater autonomy over their lives.<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aONiDgAAQBAJ&q=jaya+sharma+nirantar&pg=PT46\|title=Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure\|last1=Jolly\|first1=Susie\|last2=Cornwall\|first2=Andrea\|last3=Hawkins\|first3=Kate\|date=2013-06-13\|publisher=Zed Books Ltd.\|isbn=9781780325736\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.nirantar.net/uploads/files/EM%20Report%20-%20English.pdf\|title=Early and Child Marriage in India: A Landscape Analysis.\|website=Narintar Trust\|access-date=2018-08-30}}</ref>


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'''Jaya Sharma''' is a queer feminist author<ref>http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-word-reached-the-fields/229581</ref><ref>http://www.posterwomen.org/Posterwomen/?p=5993</ref><ref name="https://books.google.com/books=jaya+sharma+nirantar">{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5uHIYv6LISMC&pg=PA259 |title = The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context|isbn = 978-0822349877|last1 = Kester|first1 = Grant H.|date = 2011-09-12}}</ref> based in [[New Delhi]], [[India]]. She identifies as a [[queer]] [[feminist]] activist, working on issues of [[gender]], education and [[sexuality]]. As the founder of Nirantar and part of the sexuality education initiative within Nirantar, she is involved with [[capacity building]], research and advocacy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rahifoundation.org/rahi-board-of-trustees.html|title=RAHI Board of Trustees|website=RAHI Foundation|access-date=2018-03-23}}</ref>

==Life and career==
She is a founder member of [http://www.nirantar.net Nirantar], a Centre for Gender and Education based in [[New Delhi]]. Nirantar is an [[NGO]] based in [[India]] that deals with [[feminist]] and [[LGBT]] issues. She has been working on the rights and education of women and the LGBTQ+ community for over fifteen years.<ref>https://insightbhutan.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/talking-lgbtq-with-indian-activist-jaya-sharma/</ref>

She co-founded Pitara, a rural magazine which aimed at sustaining literacy in rural spaces by publishing relatible local and international news. This project was supported by Nirantar. The programme started in the wake of the total literacy campaign, and stopped functioning in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-word-reached-the-fields/229581|title=...The Word Reached The Fields|work=outlookindia.com/|access-date=2018-02-10}}</ref>

She is also the founder trustee of [[RAHI Foundation|RAHI]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rahifoundation.org/rahi-board-of-trustees.html|title=RAHI Board of Trustees|website=RAHI Foundation|access-date=2018-03-23}}</ref> an organization that works with women who are survivors of incest and [[Child sexual abuse]]. She also advocates for adolescent education and sexuality education. She also works on sexuality with women from marginalized communities through workshops.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/Pp6.pdf|title=Bringing together pleasure and politics: sexuality workshops in rural India.|last=Sharma|first=Jaya|date=|website=Institute of Development Studies|access-date=2018-08-30}}</ref>

She is also a co-founder of The Kinky collective, an Indian [[BDSM]] community that aims at destroying myths about the community practices.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/cover-story/did-you-know-that-bengaluru-has-bdsm-community/articleshow/57226458.cms|title=Did you know that Bengaluru has BDSM community?|last=Binoy|first=Valsan|date=2017-02-21|work=Bangalore Mirror|access-date=2018-03-23}}</ref>

== Academic work ==
She has authored papers on pleasure vs danger binary, which address the lack of agency rural and marginalized women felt over their sexuality before and after perspective changing workshop.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aONiDgAAQBAJ&q=jaya+sharma+nirantar&pg=PT46|title=Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure|last1=Jolly|first1=Susie|last2=Cornwall|first2=Andrea|last3=Hawkins|first3=Kate|date=2013-06-13|publisher=Zed Books Ltd.|isbn=9781780325736|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Sharma|first=Jaya|date=2013|title=Challenging the Pleasure versus Danger Binary: Reflections on Sexuality Workshops with Rural Women's Rights Activists in North India|journal=Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure Sex, Gender and Empowerment}}</ref>

She also co-authored a landscape analysis of early child marriage in India. The research was approached from a feminist perspective, analysing the influence of sociocultural norms on gender and sexuality. The research also considers interventions which could be further used by the government, NGOs, and researchers so they can empower girls to achieve greater autonomy over their lives.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aONiDgAAQBAJ&q=jaya+sharma+nirantar&pg=PT46|title=Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure|last1=Jolly|first1=Susie|last2=Cornwall|first2=Andrea|last3=Hawkins|first3=Kate|date=2013-06-13|publisher=Zed Books Ltd.|isbn=9781780325736|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nirantar.net/uploads/files/EM%20Report%20-%20English.pdf|title=Early and Child Marriage in India: A Landscape Analysis.|website=Narintar Trust|access-date=2018-08-30}}</ref>

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