Skipper Mogapi and a handful of self-identified trans and intersex persons formed a support group in Botswana that would later be known as the Rainbow Identity Association (RIA). The founding of RIA was a result of the influence of the awareness raised at the ARC International conference in Johannesburg in December 2007 and the meeting of the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) feminist institute in Mozambique in February 2008.