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Project OBO: Our Bodies, (Our) Opinions
Project OBO: Our Bodies, (Our) Opinions is a youth-led, youth focused non-governmental organisation based in Kolkata, India, aimed at creating positive spaces for young people to come together to discuss body-centric issues through conversation, media and art in an uninhibited, safe manner. OBO was founded by Mirna Guha, aged 22 at the time, in 2009. OBO's stated purpose is to provide young people of Kolkata with a platform to explore, develop and showcase their talents, and then encourages them to use those talents to spread awareness on the issues such as the body, sexual identity, gender diversity, personal safety (including self defence), child abuse, domestic abuse, sexual harassment, sexually transmitted disease, etc. Through media such as poetry, music, movement, dance, painting, photography, film, and other fine arts, during a series of workshops, OBO's intent is to train participants to become youth leaders who in turn, can train other youngsters to do the same, and pass on its philosophy.
==Origin==
In 2009, October, Start Up! an incubator for social enterprises in Delhi and Anjali, an organisation that works on mental health in Kolkata, collaborated to form "Lattoo Academy" a week-long residential training institute for young social changemakers. At the end of training period, that covered a wide variety of social issues, around 20 participants, including Mirna Guha, were asked to design their own projects which would address a social issue that they personally deeply cared about. The ideas the organisers judged the best were awarded a Lattoo Fellowship from the Sri Ratan Tata Trust to enable the participants to start implementing their ideas.
After a three-month-long selection procedure, Guha was awarded the fellowship. Project OBO was founded by Mirna Guha in 2009 as a result of this fellowship. In an interview with ''Sex, Etc.'', Guha explained that her project was inspired by a realisation that sexual abuse is commonplace, and how this affects young boys and girls in India, and the world at large. In an interview with Idealist.org, Guha spoke of her frustration with how, in her opinion, anything centered on the subject of sex was treated as taboo in much of India, and she felt she needed to do something to challenge that. This frustration was the inspiration behind Project OBO.〔
Mirna Guha, believes that myths regarding gender roles and correct body shape, size or colour, etc., have been rarely challenged. She argues that the notion that young urban Indians have easy access to information regarding these topics is also a myth, and that while it may be true that young urban Indians have a vast amount of information at their disposal, they do not have suitable spaces in which they are encouraged to discuss this information in a constructive, positive way. She believes this results in young people becoming inured to, and/or adopting popular stereotypes before they've had a chance to question them.〔
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