ABSTRACT
This chapter sets to contextualise the historical continuity of what I term as hetero-conquest in Palestine. The chapter’s focus corresponds to the very need to anchor queering into decolonisation by foregrounding the settler colonial context that defines Palestinian Nakba. The chapter is divided into two main parts. The first part historicises Zionist project’s production of a sex/gender system that correlates with the temporal and spatial constituents of conquest. The second part of the analysis is concerned with exploring how Palestinian struggle for liberation-from the First Intifada to the present reality of the Oslo peace accord era-re-instantiate hetero-conquest. Overall, the chapter’s novelty lies in centring the lens of gender and sexuality to historicising Palestine’s settler colonial present. Its unpacking of the political/aesthetic frameworks infusing hetero-conquest enables the reader to follow on the significance of decolonial queering works as shown in the coming chapters.
