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Feminist Middle East
Feminist & Queer Perspectives on
the Middle East
This online platform, with its dedicated focus on exploring the resilient histories of feminist and queer movements in the Middle East, aims to foster an understanding of the complexities of gender and sexuality, and the movements of liberation in the region, while also challenging prevailing oversimplified narratives and Orientalist tropes found within Western discourse.
Under Western Eyes
AI's Middle East
Feminist & Queer Middle East
About Us
This website is a collaborative effort by students enrolled in the WGS340 "Women and Revolution in the Middle East" course at the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto in the winter 2024 semester. Here, students share their research, insights, and critical perspectives, enriching our understanding of how women and queers in the Middle East organize, mobilize, write, create, and actively shape their own history. We also scrutinize various Western representations of gender and sexuality in the Middle East, which often obscure and invisibilize feminist and queer struggles under Orientalist and colonialist depictions of women and queers in the region. Through this platform, we aim to contribute to the feminist knowledge production on the Middle East.
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