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Call for Registration: alQaws’ Fourth Academic School

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0200

alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society is excited to announce our Fourth Academic School. This year, the School will be held virtually over the period of five weeks, comprising five sessions on September 5, 12, 19, 26 and October 3.

The Academic School is a space for activists and academics to reflect on sexual and gender politics within the settler colonial context in Palestine. alQaws has been organizing the Academic School since 2014 as a unique opportunity to learn, share experiences, and integrate political activism and academia into queer Palestinian liberation discourse.

alQaws Concludes Third Academic School for Sexual and Gender Diversity

Sat, 04 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0200

Today, alQaws concluded the Third Academic School for Sexual and Gender Diversity. The event titled “On Violence: Sexual Politics in the Colonial Context of Palestine” ran for three days in Beit Jala.

The School, organized by alQaws for its third run since 2014, took up the theme of “violence” as a topic to analyze through the lens of sexual politics under colonialism. Since the last Academic School in 2016, the notion of violence—in its different forms—became at the center of alQaws’ work, as highlighted by the social media campaign launched by alQaws last year tackling the violence experienced by queer Palestinians.

“Jadaliyya” Publishes New Articles on Sexual Politics in Palestine

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0200

Sexual Politics in the Colonial Context of Palestine

An Introduction

By: Aamer Ibraheem

(Originally published on Jadaliyya.com in Arabic)

Knowledge has long traveled across different geographies and cultures. This constant movement and creation of ideas and concepts offers us a lens through which to view ourselves and analyze our realities. Historically, ideologies either travel forcibly through the hegemonic powers of their creators, or arise as a response to those powers. Yet, in some rare cases knowledge can emerge independent of this reactionary dynamic. However, this notion of “traveling theory,” as Edward Said describes it^[1], tends to be based on the violent clash between the knowledge created to control and the knowledge created to liberate. On this journey following the routes of knowledge, we must ask ourselves the question “how did we come to know what we know today?” We need to to examine the political, social, and economic factors affecting our bodies and the processes that allowed us to arrive at a specific type of knowledge while censoring others. The question then becomes “why this knowledge specifically?”