SWANA's Got Pride

SWANA’s Got Pride SWANA Resources for Continued Engagement & Activism beyond Pride 2021 2020 - 2021 WCAPS / SWANA LGBTQIA+ Highlights ● WCAPSisOut launch with the Queer Arabs Podcast. Learn more about WCAPSisOut! ● WCAPS featured queer Arab artist, Leila Khoury, at the 2021 WCAPS Conference ● WCAPS honored Sarah Hagizi as June 2020 Woman of the Month Upcoming Events Supporting SWANA LGBTQIA+ ● Weekly Queer Global South Women/Non-Binary/Trans Weekly Drop-in Space, organized by @queerpalestinian and @themarginalizedmajority https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/queer-global-south-women-non-binary-trans-weekly-dro p-in-space-tickets-133906847987?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Highlighting SWANA’s LGBTQIA+ Community Activists ● Dalia Al Farghal https://middleeasternsarecool.tumblr.com/post/174981699748/dalia-al-farghal. ● Lama (Creator of @queerpalestinian) https://www.instagram.com/queerpalestinian/. ● 15 LGBT Arabs Getting Social Media Attention, Stop Feed (10/12/2017), https://stepfeed.com/15-lgbt-arabs-who-are-getting-media-attention-4429. ● Antoun Issa (Non-resident Scholar at MEI on Middle East/LGBT+ Issues) https://www.mei.edu/profile/antoun-issa.

Queer Arab Artists to Follow: ● Yassin Ahmed: @middleeasternqueer (https://www.instagram.com/middleeasternqueer/). ● Amal Amer, Trans Multidisciplinary Artist: @youcandoithabibi (https://www.i nstagram.com/youcandoithabibi/). ● Leila Khoury: @_leilakhoury (https://www.instagram.com/_leilakhoury/) (https://leila-khoury.com/) ● Anissa Krana, Beirut Drag Performer and LGBTQIA+ activist: @anissakrana (https://www.instagram.com/anissakrana/) ● Queer Habibi: @artqueerhabibi (https://www.instagram.com/artqueerhabibi/) ○ Bo Hanna, “This Anonymous Instagram Artist Paints a Hidden Queer Arab World” Them (June 6, 2018), https://www.them.us/story/queer-habibi-art-instagram.

● Rise Salmi, Moroccan-Canadian Singer and songwriter: @rimesalmi (https://www.instagram.com/rimesalmi/) ● Samra Habib: @samra.habib (https://instagram.com/samra.habib?utm_medium=copy_link).

Instagram Accounts to Follow: ● @thequeerarabs (https://www.instagram.com/thequeerarabs/) ● @artqueerhabibi (https://www.instagram.com/artqueerhabibi/) ● @thequeermuslimproject (https://www.instagram.com/thequeermuslimproject/) ● @habibicollective (https://www.instagram.com/habibicollective/) ● @copticqueerstories (https://www.instagram.com/copticqueerstories/) ● @themarginalizedmajority (https://www.instagram.com/themarginalizedmajority/) ● @Blair Imani (https://www.instagram.com/blairimani/) ● @gaydruzecommunity (https://www.instagram.com/gaydruzecommunity/) Organizations to Know: ● Tarab NYC - an inclusive and safe community of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and/or gender non-conforming Arab, Middle Eastern, and/or North African people in the greater New York City area - https://tarabnyc.org/about/ ● Nassawiyat - LGBTQI+ and Women rights organization based in Morocco/ ‫منظمة دفاع‬ ‫ بالمغرب‬+‫ع‬/‫ عن حقوق النساء و الميم‬- contact@nassawiyat.org, linktr.ee/nassawiyat, https://www.instagram.com/nassawiyat/ ● Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity (MASGD) https://www.themasgd.org ● OutRight International - https://outrightinternational.org/about-us ● No Longer Alone – LGBT Voices from the Middle East and Africa: Human Rights Watch and the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE) teamed up to produce videos featuring Arabic-speaking LGBT activists describing their journeys of self-acceptance. Through the campaign “No Longer Alone,” they offer messages of support and encouragement to LGBT people living in Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2018/04/16/no-longer-alone Books, Movies, Articles ● Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52764801-the-thirty-names-of-night. ● Arab Film Institute, Queer Arab Films to Watch During Pride Month, https://arabfilminstitute.org/queer-arab-films-to-watch-during-pride-month/. ● My.Kali.Mag: A monthly magazine that concerns the LGBTQ community from all around the world and dedicated for people who live in the: Middle East, for foreigners

who live in the Arab world, for those new-gay-to-be, for those who're away fom home and for those who're intereseted in entering the world of My.Kali. http://mykali.weebly.com ● RECIPROCAL SOLIDARITY: WHERE THE BLACK AND PALESTINIAN QUEER STRUGGLES MEET: In this article, two queer men, one Black American and the other Palestinian, theorize "reciprocal solidarity" as a model of solidarity that thrives on love, friendship, storytelling, reciprocity, shared experiences, struggles, and queer kinship.

Support SWANA LGBTQIA+ Businesses ● InsiabJewelry: https://www.instagram.com/insiabjewelry/ ● Canada’s LGBTQ archives project (ArQuives): https://arquives.ca ● The Queer Arabs Podcast: Amuna, an activist and entrepreneur in the UAE is a Queer Black Arab woman who founded the Black Arabs Collective, a space for sharing stories and amplifying voices of Black Arabs https://thequeerarabs.com/tag/black-arabs-collective/ ● Blair Imani: https://blairimani.com No Pride in Apartheid: Intersection of Queer & Trans Liberation with Palestinian Liberation ● Nadia Elia, “Palestine as a Queer Struggle,” US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, https://uscpr.org/queerstruggle. ● “Queer Liberation & Palestine”, Al-Qaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society (5/26/2021), http://www.alqaws.org/articles/Queer-Liberation-Palestine?category_id=0. ● @letstalkpalestine - “Let’s Talk Pinkwashing” (6/26/2021), https://www.instagram.com/p/CQlsTjOt72w/. ● Maikey, Haneen, and Mikki Stelder. " Dismantling the Pink Door in the Apartheid Wall: Towards a Decolonized Palestinian Queer Politics". The Global Trajectories of Queerness. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004217942_007 Web. ● Adam Haj Yahia, “I'm a Queer Palestinian. Here's How I'm Fighting for Liberation,” Them (May 28, 2021), https://www.them.us/story/im-a-queer-palestinian-heres-how-im-fighting-for-liberatio n. ● Aaron Jaffe, “Palestine is Queer: Anti-Zionism at NYC’s Queer Liberation March”, Spectre Journal (June 26, 2021), https://spectrejournal.com/palestine-is-queer-antizionism-at-nycs-queer-liberation-m arch/. ● @jewishvoiceforpeace - Photos of Anti-Ziolinst contingent of NYC’s Queer Liberation March (6/28/2021), https://www.instagram.com/p/CQq-FFWgOrz/.