Bekhsoos
Bekhsoos is a queeri Arab magazine published weekly by queeri and transgender people from the Meem community. They cover topics related to (homo)sexuality in the Arab world and discuss a variety of subjects such as politics, apartheid in Israel and diversity within the queer community, allowing a space for LBQ women and transgendered persons to share their stories and write to break the veil of secrecy.
They believe that the wealth of LBQ women’s and transgendereds’ stories and experiences have not yet been realized enough online or in print, so they use the website to speak their minds and tell their stories. “We must write for the eyes that want to read us. We must write for our thoughts that need to be expressed. We must give new meanings to things through new words, new phrases, and new paragraphs. We must write”, they emphasize.
