Queering The Map (@queeringthemap

Queering The Map

339 posts

Queering The Map

@queeringthemap_

Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.

Joined December 2020

Queering The Map
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Nov 21, 2023
in Gaza, Palestine: "Idk how long I will live so I just want this to be my memory here before I die...I was too shy to kiss last time. He died in the bombing. I think a big part of me died too. And soon I will be dead. To younus, i will kiss you in heaven."
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Queering The Map
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Nov 21, 2023
In Gaza, Palestine: "I’ve always imagined you and me sitting out in the sun, hand and hand, free at last...Yet you are gone now. If I had known that bombs raining down on us would take you from me, I would have gladly told the world how I adored you more than anything."
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Queering The Map
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Nov 21, 2023
in Gaza, Palestine: "Pls know despite what the media says there are gay Palestinians. We are here, we are queer. Free Palestine."
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Queering The Map
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Feb 14, 2024
In Rafah, Palestine "...she got married later and i left gaza strip, to this day i think of you, to this day i wish to be back to sleep with you in the same bed, i want you to call for my name again, i wish if i can be with you again my heartبحبك وبالرغم من الي صار دايما في بالي"
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Queering The Map
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Feb 14, 2024
In Rafah, Palestine "...i miss you beyond words can describe, i wish if i had the courage to tell you but again i was scared, I didn't want to cause you any trouble. Now both of us outside gaza strip, but much far a way from each other, بحبك وبخيالي انتي كمان بتحبيني."
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Queering The Map
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Nov 21, 2023
in Gaza, Palestine: “I wish I could watch the sunset over Gaza sea with you. For one night I wish this occupation was no longer and that we could be free for once on our own land.”
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Queering The Map
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Nov 21, 2023
At Ben Gurion Airport, Israel:"I received messages at grindr from Israeli men wearing military uniform saying they will kill me' with photos of D9- Z machine guns with laughing faces...I had to delete the Palestinian flag next to my name to stop receiving these kinds of messages"
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Queering The Map
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Nov 21, 2023
in Gaza, Palestine: “The only thing that keeps me patient living in Gaza is the sea and you الاشي الوحيد يلي مصبرني على العيشة بغزة هو البحر و انتي”
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Queering The Map
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Nov 21, 2023
in Gaza, Palestine: "During the Palestinian nakba, my grandparents were forced out of their land to Lebanon. The only thing grandpa got from the house before fleeing was the key and a picture of him and grandma infront their house..."
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Queering The Map
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Nov 21, 2023
in Tel Aviv, Israel: "First time visiting Israel/Palestine, I dated an ex airforce officer... He was trying to impress me by telling me he targeted a residential building in Gaza. I'll never forget this date, it changed my whole perspective about the conflict"
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Queering The Map
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Apr 24, 2023
in Camanga Monferrato, Italy: "while my father screams about the sin of being gay, I think about kissing her in a library. Every time I see her I feel a sense of belonging that I never felt in my own home" #queeringthemap
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Queering The Map
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Mar 11, 2024
Judith Butler reads a post from Queering the Map in Gaza, in conversation with Nasri Sayegh Jr.
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Queering The Map
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Apr 21, 2023
In Cairo, Egypt: "We are everywhere, stay strong" "نحن في كل مكان ، خليكم اقوياء" #queeringthemap
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Queering The Map
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Apr 4, 2023
in Bierces, Spain: "My father called me his son today. I never thought he would take me being trans seriously" #queeringthemap
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