In asking ‘How do queer Palestinian womyn ‘queer’ Palestinian identity”,  the present research  focuses on  the  various forms of traditional, narrative, and creative resistance practices of Palestinian womyn whochallenge the following three narratives: 1) the national narrative which tags ‘queer’ as ‘Other’ and which posits the national movement at the top of the hierarchy of struggles; 2) the colonial narrative which is sustained by the Israeli public relations campaigns aiming to portray Israel as a modern, progressive, safe gay haven for queers, in opposition to a Palestine and Arab World which are said to be integrally homophobic, barbaric, regressive, etc. in an attempt to ‘pinkwash’ the occupation; and 3) the neocolonial narrative in which Western and Israeli Jewish queer movements reproduce colonial dynamics in their attempt to ‘save’ Palestinian queers who are  deemed to be powerless, voiceless victims in need of saving. to read the thesis download the attched file>>