CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Beccarello, Erica |
|---|---|
| Title | Mawjoudin: The LGBTQI+ Community and the Construction of Spaces of Visibility in Tunisia |
| Summary | The Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival (MQFF), started in Tunisia in 2018, uses creatives practices for the representation of the LGBTQI+ community, with the aim of celebrating the LGBTQI+ communities of Global South and developing for them spaces of freedom. The artistic and creative processes that take place during the Festival play a central role in the understanding of specific issues and needs of the community, in a social and political context where homosexuality is criminalized by law and who recognises as LGBTQI+ still awaits a reframing of rights and recognition of equality. The combination of art with social activism in what can be defined as a form of artivism reaches here an effective outcome, pushing for a legitimization of the community in the society and also bringing out a colonial question that enhances the need of recognition inside the International Queer Community itself. |
| Supervisor | Strausz, Erzsébet |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/beccarello_erica.pdf |
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