Dressed for Dissent: Decolonial Fashion and the Queer Struggle for Palestine

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In the wake of the Second Intifada and energized by the Arab Spring, young Palestinian designers have used fashion to voice their political consciousness and forge affective communities in the face of Israeli occupation. This book proposes to understand their practices as "queer decolonial fashion," a collaborative aesthetic ...