Decolonial Queering in Palestine

<p>This book provides a vivid account of the political valence of weaving queer into native positionality and the struggle for decolonisation in the settler colonial context of Palestine referred to as decolonial queering. It discusses how processes of gender and sexuality that privilege hetero-colonising authority shaped and continue to define both the Israeli-Zionist conquest of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle for liberation thus future imaginings of free Palestine. This account emerges directly from the voices and experiences of Palestinian activists and artists; particularly it draws on fieldwork with Palestine’s most established queer grassroots movement alQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society and a variety of artistic Palestinian productions (photography fashion music performance and video art). Offering a comprehensive and in-depth engagement with the situated context history and local practices of Palestinian queerness scholars students and activists across (de)colonial race and gender/sexuality studies would appreciate its unique insights; its empirical focus also reaches to those academics in the wider fields of Middle Eastern anthropological and political studies.</p>