A NEW MAGAZINE ABOUT WHO WE ARE BEYOND LABELS AND ACRONYMS.

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Issue
No. 1
Welcome to Issue One, a love letter to the queer SWANA diaspora from the heart of Ramzy Masri.

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Dedicated to Sarah Hegazy
Illustration by Maia Faddoul

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COMING OUT ARAB
In a City of Windmills
ON MOURNING SARAH HEGAZY
A portrait of Mariam Bazeed.
ESSAY BY Mariam Bazeed
All of Me, Alone.

Photo Essay • Photo Essay • Photo Essay • Photo Essay • Photo Essay • Photo Essay • Photo Essay • Photo Essay • Photo Essay • Photo Essay •

“
Palestine is settler colonization in motion, it is an apartheid state expanding, it is poised for the next massacre, as these words are being written. [...]

The struggle for Palestine is now. It is as necessary as it has ever been, and our collective struggles have created more capacity for alternative futures than at any other time over the last generation. It is you. It is us together. It is time for us all to move.” 
—

Poet Remi Kanazi in the afterword of"Palestine: A Socialist Introduction" by Sumaya Awad and brian bean

Editor's Letter • Editor's Letter • Editor's Letter • Editor's Letter • Editor's Letter • Editor's Letter • Editor's Letter • Editor's Letter •

Returning Home
Read our editor’s letter
Feature
Alsarah
Is In A A dark-skinned femme with pink and purple eyeshadow on her eyes wearing gold jewelry and a grey fur coat.Genre
All Her Own.
Feature
An illustration labeled Palestine is a Queer Issue linking to a piece by Ghadir al Shafie.
Conversations
A person with winged eyeliner, bright red lipstick, large gold hoop earrings, black curly hair and shoulder tattoos looks inensly ahead.
Decolonizing the Dance Floor:
Letters between Habibitch and Esraa Warda
An illustration labeled Voice Notes, On Poetry, Jinn, and Anti-Colonial Archiving
With artists Morehshin Allahyari and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Greetings from
Wake Island
A pared-down performance and Q&A with the Lebanese electro-pop duo.
Life After the Blast
An illustration of Beirut landmarks, including a clock towers, multiple mosques, and statues.
Memories of queer Beirut.
Jad Wadi as told to Reina Sultan

heart, star fed.

A poem by Amal Amer
IN THE COMMUNITY
Queer SWANA organizations and nightlife events to support.
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