Episode 192 [in English]: Hamzeh Daoud on Presencing Ourselves

The Queer Arabs

Hamzeh Daoud is a trans femme Palestinian researcher, organizer, and tech person originally from Amman, and currently based in Texas. She’s co-lead of the ongoing survey Presencing Ourselves: A Survey of LGBTQI+ Muslims in the U.S. (along with our recent guest Amara, and in partnership with Queer Crescent). **If this applies to you, you can take the survey here!!** This episode consists of complete emotional whiplash in which we alternate between serious conversations of queerphobia, family trauma, and settler colonialism, and utter ridiculousness. Hamzeh discusses the importance of the survey from their perspective, both identifying and critiquing the ways that…