There is no clash of civilisations but the aftermath of gender apartheid and state sexual repressions by dictator regimes that are enabled by colonialism and sponsored by neocolonialism.

QUEER is stateless

(SI spodaj)

On the 13th of June 2023 at 11.00 am, we will gather in front of the embassy of Egypt in Ljubljana in a stand for human rights to end state sexual repression and gender apartheid in Egypt and worldwide.

Colonialism and imperialism enhanced state sexual repression and gender apartheid in its former colonies. Until the 19th century, we had the cross-dressing in Egypt named “Khawalat”, which was a pleasant ceremony of gender-fluid and liberated performances that celebrated homosexuality. French novelist Gustave Flaubert wrote a letter to a friend in 1850 in which Flaubert wrote how “he was shocked by the overall normality and acceptance of homosexuality in Egypt”, noting that the subject was freely admitted and discussed in public. Unfortunately, with the imperialist colonialism by France and the British Empire Colonization in Egypt, the “Khawalat” became a derogatory word reflecting homophobia and transphobia; it is a fact that British Empire Colonization enabled the legal criminalisation of homosexuality in Egypt.
Now we are here to make it loud and clear that we will not forget, we will not forgive, and we will hunt all dictator, sexually repressive and gender apartheid regimes down.
Today we stand to honour the legacy of Sarah Hijazi, an LGBTQIA+ and human rights activist who was arrested, raped and sexually assaulted in the prison of the current dictator regime of al Sisi in Egypt. Sarah was arrested and tortured in the prisons of this repressive regime because she raised the rainbow flag in a concert in the streets of Cairo. After her release in 2018, she suffered from depression, post-trauma syndromes and panic attacks; afterwards, she obtained asylum in Canada, but the regime’s repressive media did not leave her alone. The repressive regime’s media channels continued the sponsored homophobic and transphobic hate speech.

Sarah took her own life on the 14th of June 2020 with a suicide note:
"To my siblings – I tried to survive and failed; forgive me. To my friends – the experience was harsh, and I am too weak to resist it; forgive me. To the world – you were cruel to a great extent, but I forgive.".

Thank you, Sarah. May you rise and rise and rest in peace and power; On the 13th of June 2023,  we announce THAT WE WILL NOT FORGIVE, AND WE WILL NOT FORGET because of the many people who are now behind bars under the repressive and dictator regime of Al SISI in Egypt, this embassy and the repressive dictator regime in Egypt is a product of British Empire and France colonialism and a current neo-colonial instrument in the geographical area so-named and so-called as the Middle East.

Power to the people in Egypt who are striving for justice, equality and peace; Power and justice to all current and former prisoners of conscience and to all current and former prisoners due to gender apartheid and state sexual repression in Egypt, of whom we mention a few, but we won’t forget all:

• Justice and freedom for Amal Fathy, an Egyptian democracy activist and human rights defender. She is a former April 6 Youth Movement activist and member of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms. She continues to be detained under house arrest by the Egyptian authorities since January 2019 for speaking out about sexual harassment in Egypt.

• Freedom for Hoda Abdel Moneim; Hoda Abdel Moneim is a human rights lawyer who works on documenting human rights abuses, including incidents of enforced disappearance.

• Justice and freedom for Patrick George Zaki, a gender and human rights researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). He was arrested in 2020, beaten and threatened by rape while investigating his work.

• Justice and freedom for Manar Samy, a social media star who was arrested with accusations of spreading immortality.

The Misogynist dictator regime of Al Sisi in Egypt is prisoning women over their right of choice, as simple as choosing how they dress, talk and their state of just being.

We conclude with the powerful words of the Egyptian writer and activist Mona El-Tahawy:
“Why do those men hate us? They hate us because they need us, they fear us, they understand how much control it takes to keep us in line, to keep us good girls with our hymens intact until it’s time for them to fuck us into mothers who raise future generations of misogynists to forever fuel their patriarchy. They hate us because we are at once their temptation and their salvation from that patriarchy, which they must sooner or later realize hurts them, too. They hate us because they know that once we rid ourselves of the alliance of State and Street that works in tandem to control us, we will demand a reckoning.”
― Mona Eltahawy, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

The program:
We will start at 11.00 by reading the statement in Arabic, followed by the “Khawalat” performance and then reading the statement in English and Slovene. We conclude with an open mic for feminist intersectional chants.
Bring on your intersectional feminist chants and your most “Immoral” outfits!
There is no clash of civilisations but the aftermath of gender apartheid and state sexual repressions by dictator regimes that are enabled by colonialism and sponsored by neocolonialism.
QUEER is stateless.

SIDE collective of women, queers and migrants in Slovenia

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Ne gre za spopad civilizacij, ampak za posledice spolnega apartheida in državne spolne represije, ki jo je omogočil kolonializem in sponzoriral neokolonializem.
»QUEER« je brez državljanstva!

13. junija 2023 ob 11.00 uri se bomo zbrali pred veleposlaništvom Egipta v Ljubljani v podporo človekovim pravicam za odpravo državne spolne represije in spolnega apartheida v
Egiptu in po vsem svetu.
Kolonializem in imperializem sta okrepila državno spolno zatiranje in spolni apartheid nekdanje kolonije.
Do 19. stoletja smo imeli v Egiptu navzkrižno preoblačenje po imenu "Khawalat", ki je bila prijetna slovesnost spolno-tekočih in osvobojenih predstav, ki so slavile homoseksualnost. Francoski romanopisec Gustave Flaubert je leta 1850 prijatelju napisal pismo, v katerem je zapisal, kako je bil »šokiran nad splošno normalnostjo in sprejemanjem homoseksualnost v Egiptu«, pri čemer je opozoril, da je bila tema svobodno priznana in javno razpravljana. Na žalost je z imperialističnim kolonializmom najprej Francije, nato pa ji je sledilo Združeno kraljestvo; v Egiptu »Khawalat« postala slabšalna beseda, ki odraža homofobijo in transfobijo; to je dejstvo, da je britanski kolonializem omogočil pravno kriminalizacijo homoseksualnosti v Egiptu.
Zdaj smo tukaj, da jasno in glasno povemo, da ne bomo pozabili, ne bomo odpustili in bomo »lovili« vse diktatorske, spolno represivne režime in režime spolnega apartheida.

Danes stojimo v čast zapuščini Sarah Hijazi, LGBTQIA+ in aktivistka človekovih pravic, ki je bila aretirana, posiljena in spolno napadena v zaporu sedanjega diktatorja režima Al-SISI v Egiptu.

Sarah je bila aretirana in mučena v zaporih te represije režima, ker je na koncertu na ulicah Kaira dvignila mavrično zastavo. Po njeni izpustitvi leta 2018 je trpela za depresijo, posttravmatskimi sindromi in napadi panike; nato je dobila azil v Kanadi, a je režimski
represivni mediji niso pustili. Medijski kanali represivnega režima so nadaljevali sponzoriran homofoben in transfobičen sovražni govor.

Sarah si je 14. junija 2020 vzela življenje s samomorilnim sporočilom:
»Mojim sorojence – poskušala sem preživeti in mi ni uspelo; odpustite mi. Prijateljem – izkušnja je bila ostra in prešibka sem, da bi se ji uprla; odpustite mi. Svetu – bili ste kruti v veliki meri, vendar odpuščam.«

Hvala, Sarah. Vstajaj in vstajaj naprej; počivaj v miru in moči; danes smo tukaj, da sporočimo, DA NE BOMO ODPUSTILI IN NE BOMO POZABILI, zaradi mnogo ljudi, ki so zdaj za zapahi pod represivnim in diktatorskim režimom Al-SISI v Egiptu; to veleposlaništvo in represivni diktatorski režim v Egiptu je produkt ZK in francoskega kolonializma ter sedanji neokolonialni instrument na geografskem območju tako imenovanem Bližnji vzhod.

Moč ljudem v Egiptu, ki si prizadevajo za pravičnost, enakost in mir; Moč in pravica do vseh sedanjih in nekdanjih zapornikov vesti ter do vseh sedanjih in bivših zapornikov zaradi spolnega apartheida in državne spolne represije v Egiptu, katerie omenjamo malo, a ne bomo pozabili:

• Pravica in svoboda za Amal Fathy, egipčansko aktivistko za demokracijo in človekove pravice. Je nekdanja aktivistka Mladinskega gibanja 6. april in članica Egiptovske komisije za pravice in svoboščine. Še naprej je v priporu egiptovske oblasti (v hišnem priporu od januarja 2019), ker je spregovorila o spolnem nadlegovanju v Egiptu.

• Svoboda za Hodo Abdel Moneim; Hoda Abdel Moneim je odvetnica za človekove pravice, ki dela na dokumentiranju zlorab človekovih pravic, vključno s primeri uveljavljenih izginotij.

• Pravica in svoboda za Patricka Georgea Zakija, raziskovalca spolov in človekovih pravic pri Egiptovski pobudi za osebne pravice (EIPR). Leta 2020 je bil aretiran, pretepen in grozili so mu s posilstvom, medtem ko je preiskoval njegovo delo.

• Pravica in svoboda za Manar Samy, zvezdnico družbenih medijev, ki je bila aretirana s obtožbo širjenja nesmrtnosti.

Mizoginistični diktatorski režim Al SISI v Egiptu zapira ženske zaradi njihove pravice do izbire, tako preprostih kot so izbira, kako se oblačijo, govorijo in v kakšnem stanju so.

Zaključujemo z močnimi besedami egipčanske pisateljice in aktivistke Mone El-Tahawy:
»Zakaj nas ti moški sovražijo? Sovražijo nas, ker nas potrebujejo, bojijo se nas, razumejo koliko nadzora je potrebno, da ostanemo v vrsti, da ostanemo dobra dekleta z nedotaknjenimi himeni, dokler čas je, da nas »zjebejo« v matere, v katere vzgajajo prihodnje generacije mizoginov za vedno podžigajoč njihov patriarhat. Sovražijo nas, ker smo hkrati njihova skušnjava in njihova odrešitev iz tega patriarhata, za katero se morajo prej ali slej zavedati, da boli tudi njih. Oni nas sovražijo, ker vedo, da ko se znebimo zavezništva države in ulice, to deluje v tandemu, da nas nadzoruje, me bomo zahtevale obračun.«
- Mona Eltahawy, Naglavne rute in himene: Zakaj Bližnji vzhod potrebuje spolno revolucijo.

Program se bo začel ob 11.00 z branjem izjave v arabščini, nato pa bo sledila predstava “Khawalat” in nato branje izjave v angleščini in slovenščini. Prinesite svoje intersekcijske feministične pesmi in svoje najbolj "nemoralne" obleke!
Ne gre za spopad civilizacij, ampak za posledice spolnega apartheida in državne spolne represije, ki jo je omogočil kolonializem in sponzoriral neokolonializem.
»QUEER« je brez državljanstva!

SIDE collective of women, queers and migrants in Slovenia

• demonostration
• queer guerilla
• feminism
• Egipt
• kvir