The night of 22. 6. 2024

We recall starting this journey with research in anger and afterwards creating and making the performance of 1834: Al Ghawazi and Khawalat.

Celebrating, reclaiming, and enjoying Al Ghawazi and Khawalat was so powerful during the full moon night of 22 June, in the transition to summer and in the vibes of the unilinear presence of time.

We love feeling anger. It brings us peace knowing that we are alive and genuinely present with our feelings as much as we must be.

Al Ghawazi the women belly dancers who were banned in upper Cairo in 1834 and Al Khawalat which is an important part of the queer heritage in Egypt.

Al Khawalat nowadays unfortunately is derogatory term of what was before celebrated as a queer identity and art expressions.

Al Ghawazi means the conquers, and this is how we reclaimed and celebrated the parts of us where al Ghawazi and Khawalat are.

This celebration took us to many places of unlearning and learning.

It took us on a radical rioting journey for freedom against colonisation, genocidal occupation, theocratic repressive regimes, elitism, all forms of oppression, and into a sexual revolution.

A sexual revolution as the Egyptian feminist writer and activist Mona Eltahawy wrote in her book “Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution?”

Live, feel, and rise in anger, as anger is OK and riots are the way.

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