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 singers of the Arab world, an artist whose songs...
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 anarcho-queer berlin we don’t know each other anymore on...
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, – I know why I am in this situation, – thoughts constantly recur, remind me. I’ve developed and actioned plans,…
TQU @Whose Museum
WHEN? June 8th to June 29th, 2019
WHERE? Whose Museum @KRETS, Kristianstadsgatan 16, 214 23 Malmö, Sweden
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 a chosen family. As an only child, I have…
WHEN OUR MOVEMENT BECAME THEIR CAUSE
TEXT BY: Nikola Italo // Argentina
In Argentina we are living through a very particular but incredibly significant course of events. The parliament (Congress, to be specific) has decided to start the project of a new law: the decriminalization of abortion.
Call Me A Boy – My journey into music and manhood
TEXT BY: Faris Saad // Malaysia || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tom Moore // Germany
“My bandmates assured me that no one in the straight cis-male crowd would care, and if they did, fuck them, selamba je. Even if I lost everything else, I would still have my core group of friends who accepted me as my handsome self.”
Stop Talking, Start Doing:
My experience with the eBay Startup Cup 2018
TEXT & PHOTOS: Lazar Mikov // Germany / Macedonia
“If someone told me that our team would generate revenue on the first day of our business I would have laughed in disbelief. Yet that’s exactly what happened at…”
Evan Mwangi’s ‘Quenya’ word is Derogatory to the Gender-Fluids
TEXT BY: Alexander Opicho // Kenya
Professor Evan Mwangi finished reviewing Professor’s Mutongi’s new book, Matatu: a history of popular transportation in Nairobi, by remarking that; ‘matatus are…
Frankenstein’s Children: Here Be Monsters And They Are Glorious
text by: Ever Dundas // Scotland || illustration by: tom moore // Germany
I have arrived in the liminality of the monstrous, and I must assure you of my welfare. In actuality, I’ve never felt more safe and welcome in this shifting, uncertain realm. I am confident in the success of my endeavour.
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 in many ways, that’s me. I am Nikola when I write, when I tell stories. I was Nikola when I discovered what being a feminist means. Now I am one.
On Being a Queer Musician
text by: Kat Hamilton // USA || photo by: Manic Pixi // USA
First of all, I love the term “Queer”. There is something unifying and inclusive about it. It covers a lot of ground. In the past year, I’ve really taken to identifying as queer vs. gay or lesbian. I hear it often in the music scene especially.
BLACK VELVET: A DIRECTOR’S GUIDE TO QUEER UNDERGROUND HOLLYWOOD
article by: Tobias Daniels // USA || photo by: Mark Stuplin // USA
Directing my first feature documentary, Black Velvet, taught me what I was capable of as a filmmaker. It also opened the door to conversations with other
Trans In Prison
text by: Calvin Gimpelevich // USA || illustration by: solundurraga & mujer gallina // Chile
What we know is there are trans people and there are prisons and sometimes the two overlap. It happens all over, but I’m from California, so let’s talk about the US.
Introducing… Kumbia Queers
text by: Verena Spilker // Germany || photo by: Verena Spilker // Germany
This July Berlin had the pleasure of welcoming Kumbia Queers, a band from Mexico & Argentina in Berlin for no less than three concerts, in which they introduced us to their version of cumbia, aka tropipunk.
