Reimagining the queer characters of Syrian TV
19 August 2022
In every TV drama, film or song, I always managed to find someone who “represented” me, regardless of whether this character was queer or not. However, I would get ecstatic...
Salina: Untitled
22 July 2022
What are the places, events, memories, contradictions and transformations that can shape one artist’s consciousness around queerness as a revolutionary “identity”? How do queerness and different identities still resist (hetero)normative...
Thank you, Um Kamel!
Yaz |
24 June 2022
"A man and a woman in one body—it was a ray of light that fired up my imagination in an era before any usage of the many letters that now...
On childhood, ‘being different’ and memory
17 June 2022
I want to tap into the happy memories of LGBTIQ people. When we revisit and deconstruct our memories, we do not always have to start from the bad, traumatizing or...
On childhood, ‘being different’ and memory
10 June 2022
There are so many demands for us to be accepted—unfortunately, mostly by our family members and those who populate our environments, which end up being the places where you get...
Queerness and transness on the Syrian cultural scene
03 June 2022
How can we create a sustainable queer archive that has the potential to become a reference for LGBTIQ people, civil society, and the Syrian artistic and cultural public sphere?
A queer refugee in Neukölln
08 April 2022
Omar fled Syria in 2015 and today lives openly queer in Berlin. This is his/her story of self-discovery.
