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#TQUlovesYou – what’s new:
Oum Kulthoum’s Sexuality
Book Review By Stella Andrada Kasdovasili In Οum Kulthoum’s Sexuality, Musa Al-Shadeedi offers an interesting reflection on the sexuality of one of the most prominent…
an old tradition
with illustrations by Lena Dirscherl our last kiss fumbling and strange in a spanish airport bathroom she headed home to a new career me onto…
POEM I DON’T WANT TO WRITE
by aabbchot aabbaadd aabbswallow // illustration by Jespa Jacob Smith /// I’m trapped in my silence, – I don’t tell anyone about my alarm, -…
To be or not to be… this has been my question
by Jocelyne Rigal // illustration by LITA /// Family is a strange thing to me… I like to think my friends constitute some sort of…
Sweet Movie
Film Review // by Stella Andrada Kasdovasili // On January 25th, 2019, Dusan Makavejev, one of the most prominent figures in Yugoslavian film history –…
No Date, No Signature
Film Review // by Stella Andrada Kasdovasili // No date, No signature (Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza) by Iranian director Vahid Jalilvand is an intense moralist…
Propslist – make meaningful connections
Propslist is non-commercial and free, however please consider making a donation to support TQU to continue this work.
PROPSLIST is for artists, film makers, writers, photographers, cooks, explorers, listeners, football players – any person who wants to connect with others in a meaningful and creative way. On PROPSLIST you can find calls for submissions, learn about interesting people, wonderful projects and much more. Explore new ideas for your own work or find someone to collaborate with.
Alex Giegold
What? Photography Where? Germany Alex Giegold is a queer photographer and artist resident in Berlin. With her work she is questioning […]
Techwoo
WHAT? Drawing / Comic WHERE? Bulgaria Techwoo (officially Teodora Doncheva) was born in the town of Plovdiv in 1981. In 1999 she graduated in graphic…
Mahdi
PROPSLIST | SKILL SHARING Offering: Visual Art, Graphic Design, lllustration Looking for: inspiring projects
Aneta Willertová
What? Mixed media Where? Czech Republic I’ve put on a preview of some of my works that are somehow related to tqu’s topics. […]
DeCompany Studio
PROPSLIST | INTRODUCING What? documentary film project about the lives of LGBT people in Africa REACHING OUT TO potential sponsors
Satadru
What? Multidisciplinary Art Where? South Korea || India My work takes shape in varying formats and it is focusing on the gender topography of South Asia…
Pride season is here again!
Faces of Pride – Zine
Happy (critical) Pride 2018 everyone! Download and view Pride zine here! Interviews with pride organizers from all around the world. Ever wondered what’s still political about Pride? This is!
Faces of Pride: Kenneth J. Miller || Phuket Pride
For four years, we funded three additional HIV Testing in the gay area. The rate of HIV was 25% in 2012 and by 2017, we saw…
Faces of Pride – Zine
Happy (critical) Pride 2018 everyone! Download and view Pride zine here! Interviews with pride organizers from all around the world. Ever wondered what’s still political…
Faces of Pride: Jessica Lima || Ljubljana Pride
“It’s time we work together, and that we work through/despite our differences. It’s important to stay true to our political goals, but we need to…
Faces of Pride: Sothy Linda || Cambodia Pride
“First of all, Prides helped me to come out and they can encourage individuals to be themselves through educational, social, community and other activities. Then…”
Faces Of Pride: Evie Wu || Shanghai Pride
“This year is the 10th year of pride in Shanghai and we initiate CnPRIDE at this moment with grassroots organizations around Mainland China, that have…
Faces Of Pride: Eva Jóa || Reykjavik Pride
“I think Reykjavík Pride is important because the fight isn’t over. Socially we might be one of the most accepting countries, but our laws have…
OUR_STORY – queer history in the making
Storytelling is one of the oldest and most accessible tools used to share culture and experiences over generations.
But telling our own stories, and sharing our own experiences in our own words, is also a means of empowerment and self-affirmation – especially when our voices have been marginalized for as long as we can remember. OUR_STORY aims to gather queer narratives from all around the world, seeing that freedom of expression for people that don’t conform to the majority’s gender norms is still relatively or completely absent in some parts of our planet and underrepresented everywhere.
Another Coming Out Story
TEXT BY: Norman Belanger // USA || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tigrowna // Germany Howard Roarke laughed. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff…he laughed…
Trans In Prison
text by: Calvin Gimpelevich // USA || illustration by: solundurraga & mujer gallina // Chile What we know is there are trans people and there…
To the girl who made me realise that my being straight was a phase!
TEXT BY: Sneha Rooh // India || ILLUSTRATION BY: Elizabeth Watkin // USA I remember asking you if you were sure of what you were…
Smear Signal
text by: Corinna Cliff // Germany || illustration by: tom moore // Germany Eleanor froze. Unable to move, she saw Mandy materializing in front of…
Diversity in Education
text by: Jonathan Daniel // USA || illustration by: Elizabeth Watkin // USA I can’t feel. I thought – I had reached my limits, but…
Have You Been a Good Girl?
text by: Elizabeth Watkin // USA || screenshot: from Elizabeth’s film The video combines poetry and film to explore and challenge the constraints forced upon…
The Christening
TEXT BY: Jocelyne Rigal // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tigrowna // Germany I broke the uneasy pause which followed, with a statement which boomed throughout…
Dark Juices
text by: Nyar Afrika // Kenya || illustration by: Lekouzinthomas // France The prospect of getting laid sends chills down my body. Exhilaration dances through…
Some Girls & Pissing Annie
text by: by Desi Valentinova / Ulpia // Bulgaria || illustration by: Verena Spilker // Germany Pissing Annie sat along – Asking me if I…
Queermoves
Next Date: June 23rd, 2019 // At: ReSource – Wissmannstr. 20, 12049 Berlin, Germany // What is queermoves? Why queer-y yoga and what will it look like? …
