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Welcome to Transnational Queer Underground. We’re glad that you’re here.

Take a look around – we’re sure you’ll find a couple of things you like.

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#TQUlovesYou – what’s new:

Oum Kulthoum’s Sexuality

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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…
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an old tradition

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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…
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POEM I DON’T WANT TO WRITE

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by aabbchot aabbaadd aabbswallow // illustration by Jespa Jacob Smith /// I’m trapped in my silence, – I don’t tell anyone about my alarm, -…
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Sweet Movie

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Film Review // by Stella Andrada Kasdovasili // On January 25th, 2019, Dusan Makavejev, one of the most prominent figures in Yugoslavian film history –…
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No Date, No Signature

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Film Review // by Stella Andrada Kasdovasili // No date, No signature (Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza) by Iranian director Vahid Jalilvand is an intense moralist…
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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.

Sneha Rooh

PROPSLIST | SKILL SHARING Offering: Writing, Painting, Mosaic making, Installations, Illustration Looking for: inspiring projects
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Umba

What? Drawings, comics Where? Russia In my artworks I talk about trans dignity, trans pride and trans rage. And just about these different […]
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Mx. Kilo

PROPSLIST | SKILL SHARING Offering: singing, producing Looking for: inspiring projects
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Jakub Ra Svoboda

What? Photography Where? Czech Republic The theme of gender is important to me. It is something that goes through my heart and penis […]
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Mo Mori

PROPSLIST | SKILL SHARING Offering: tattoo, art, painting Looking for: inspiring projects
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Tom Moore

PROPSLIST | SKILL SHARING Offering: filming, vjing, drawing, illustration, teaching Looking for: inspiring projects
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Pride season is here again!

Faces of Pride

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!
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Faces of Pride

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…
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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.

Roseus Lupus

text by: Janielle Love Williams // USA || illustration by: Verena Spilker // Germany I’m the descendent of a lineage of lycanthropes. As far back…
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Exposed

TEXT BY: Nyar Afrika // Kenya || ILLUSTRATION BY: Elizabeth Watkin // USA I want this mysterious woman to have me. To take me in…
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Burned by the Stake

text by: Ambika Thompson // Canada || illustration by: tom moore // Germany I was passing through the main square of a village, selling pelts…
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call for submissions

What is OUR_STORY?

Storytelling is one of the oldest and most accessible tools used to share culture and experiences over generations. With…
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Dark Juices

text by: Nyar Afrika // Kenya || illustration by: Lekouzinthomas // France The prospect of getting laid sends chills down my body. Exhilaration dances through…
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the christening

The Christening

TEXT BY: Jocelyne Rigal // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tigrowna // Germany I broke the uneasy pause which followed, with a statement which boomed throughout…
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Her Choice

text by: Nikola Italo // Argentina || illustration by: Megan Potoma // USA My name is Nikola Italo. Well, that’s not my real name, but…
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Smear Signal

text by: Corinna Cliff // Germany || illustration by: tom moore // Germany Eleanor froze. Unable to move, she saw Mandy materializing in front of…
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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? …
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Opportunities with Transnational Queer Underground

Volunteers: For 2019 we are looking to build a team of engaged volunteers to make illustrations, write, report and explore content for the website as well as to get involved with the organisation of TQU’s events in Berlin.

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Partner: We don’t like capitalism, but we like you. We’re happy to support queer run shops, publishers, labels, queer artists, musicians, activists, etc. and we’d like to get to know you.

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Transnational Queer Underground brings together and supports diverse queer voices. Art, music, film, writing or activism – we believe that we’re all in this together and we can only grow strong if we support each other.

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