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Reflecting on Queerness in Times of Genocide
alQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity and Queers in Palestine are "Reflecting on Our Queerness in Times of Genocide". Invest in building queer communities …
Engaging with a New Political Reality: Lessons & Changes
Read our 2021 annual report highlighting our engagement with a changing political, social and organizational reality inside alQaws and in Palestinian society .
On the Question of: Coming Out
What does "coming out" mean to each of us? How is this affected by our lived reality and our culture?
Our Queer Life: Coming Out
We reflect on the idea of sharing our orientations and experiences with others, the opportunities and costs of "coming out" in different places, and seeing this …
Jerusalem: A Queer and Feminist Reading of the City
The session tackles several layers, questions, and issues given rise to by the political reality of the city, including our daily lived experiences as LGBTQ+ …
A Rallying Cry for Queer Liberation 2021
We call on queer Palestinians, allies, friends, comrades, political and social movements, groups, organizations, families, journalists, and activists to join us …
New Queer Youth Group in Jerusalem!
alQaws organizes a another youth group titled "Me, My Sexuality, and Society: Exploration, Knowledge, and Impact" in Jerusalem!
Our Queer Life: The Latest Uprising
We share and reflect on our mixed emotions, our presence in the street, our complicated relationship with society, our roles, and different oppurtunities that …
REGISTER NOW An Online Seminar: Palestine Through the Lens of Queer Politics
alQaws is pleased to launch our first online seminar, "Palestine Through the Lens of Queer Politics."
Feminist and Queer Reflections on the Latest Palestinian Uprising
What is our definition of "justice" as feminists and queers? How do we challenge gendered power structures in society, while working as a society to resist …
On the Question of: Our Experiences during the Uprising
An online workshop for LGBTQA/queer floks to share how we feel about everything we went through during the latest Palestinian uprising and up until now.
alQaws Holds Study Day with Palestinian Counseling Center
alQaws holds discussion and launch of "The Interaction of Palestinian Families with Diverse Gender and Sexual Experiences" alQaws' most recent field study.
On the Question of: Holidays and Family
An online workshop for LGBTQA / queer floks to share how do we deal with the holidays. How does it reflect on us and our relationships with our families?
The Interaction of Palestinian Families with Diverse Gender and Sexual Experiences
This research aims to help us reach a careful understanding and analysis of Palestinian family structure, dynamics and roles around sexual and gender diversity …
Our Queer Life: Bodies
We reflect on social norms regarding weight, femininity/masculinity, and skin color, among others. We examine how these norms affect us and our friendships, …
Sexual and Gender Diversity Issues in the Political Palestinian Landscape
How can we center the voices and experiences of queer people while in a state of political turmoil? And what is our role as feminist-queer movements, and …
New Queer Youth Group in Haifa!
alQaws organizes a another youth group titled "Me, My Sexuality, and Society: Exploration, Knowledge, and Impact" in Haifa!
Social & Organizational Transformation: A Queer Organizing Milestone in Palestine
Social transformation and organizational changes in a global pandemic. Read alQaws' annual report for 2020.
alQaws Fellowship 2021: Palestine Through the Lens of Queer Politics
alQaws is seeking a fellow for a three-month political education program focused on cross-border networking, knowledge-sharing, and movement building for LGBTQ …
alQaws Welcomes a new Director
We are pleased to announce that alQaws activist Haneen Sader is joining alQaws' professional staff team as our new director beginning January 2021.
[Webinar] Beyond Propaganda: Reorienting Anti-Pinwashing Organizing
Join this community conversation between alQaws and Adalah Justice Project discussing the work of the Palestinian queer movement, how to reorient our …
alQaws Summer 2020 Newsletter: A Rallying Cry for Queer Liberation
In the midst of a global pandemic exacerbated by a capitalist, patriarchal, colonial system, we choose to confront and let out a rallying cry for queer …
Join alQaws’ 12th Annual Training for Hotline Volunteers
Would you like to support people seeking a listening ear and information related to sexual/gender identity and sexual orientation? This is your chance!
Call for Registration: alQaws’ Fourth Academic School
This space serves to center our lived experiences of oppression and pain created by the capitalist-patriarchal-colonial system we live under, and massively …