ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses alQaws’s role in decolonising from within and demonstrates how its local practices aim to offer an alternative vision of free Palestine, thus Imagining Otherwise. The chapter unpacks the underexplored dimension of internalised pinkwashing, showing how activists’ critical engagement with this concept reflects the work of decolonisation that Palestinian queers lead in the local context of Palestine. Internalised pinkwashing is symptomatic of colonised re-instantiation-on subjective and objective scales-of the spatial, temporal, and sensual regiments of hetero-conquest. The chapter examines the significance of alQaws’s decolonial queering work in relation to radical self-determination. It traces everyday decolonial queering practices aimed at decolonising desire, building communities, and rebuilding the homeland. The exploration of activist modus operandi reveals the significance of alQaws’s work as it offers a space for queering Palestine’s futurity.
