ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the role of Palestinian queer artistic productions play in distributing futural imaginaries of decolonial queering. It starts by examining alQaws’s tarwiha narratives, which activate the value of the emotive and affective to crafting alternate conceptions of Palestinian selfhood, going beyond the strictures of hetero-conquest. The chapter then draws on Tarik Knorn’s artistic productions and their role in provoking a political message, which is grounded in decolonising sexuality and carving anti-capitalist consciousness against ‘La La Land’ hyper-consumption reality. It finally engages Omar Ibin Dina’s zey al tashrifat to reveal the role of fashion design in queering processes of male- and state-making, thus opening up room for other fabrications to predominant gendered and sexual scripts of Palestine’s futural imaginaries. The main contribution of these artistic practices lies in how they channel imaginaries that enfold conceptions of subjectivities and the space and time of sociality that remain obscured within prevalent understandings of what Palestinian freedom entails.
