“Faire le pont”: digital networks of queer creativity in the Maghreb
Record type:
media
Creator:
Emi
Publisher:
Liv
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The following article discusses the role of digital media in the creation and dissemination of queer art from the Maghreb. It especially interrogates how NGOs and activists leverage virtual spaces as creative networks. By doing so, they offer an accessible, collaborative alternative to Western cultural industries, which often dominate conversations about the production of queer Maghrebi narratives. I illustrate these dynamics by analyzing the social media presence of Mawjoudin, a Tunisian LGBT rights NGO;
Machi Rojola
, a Moroccan podcast about contemporary masculinities; and
L’amour fait loi
, an anthology of queer Moroccan writing. Although the three projects have distinctive aesthetic and thematic focuses, all create multilingual, transnational virtual spaces where artists and activists share their work and reflect the diversity of queer Maghrebi art.
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence:
creativecommons.org
.
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