Ghaida Moussa is an M.A. student at the University of Ottawa, currently completing a collaborative program blending Globalization and International Development with Women’s Studies. Her thesis, titled “Narrative (Sub)Versions: How Queer Palestinian Womyn ‘Queer’ Palestinian Identity”, focuses on the various forms of traditional, daily and creative resistance of Palestinian womyn who challenge colonial, neocolonial and national narratives which are oppressive because of the false dichotomies they create, their inaccuracy in “representing” Palestinian queer realities and the unattainable ideals they set up.

The thesis challenges the notion that national struggles have priority over all other struggles, including feminist and queer ones. It also adds a feminist perspective to a male-dominated literature on the subject, and allows a celebration of the diversity of voices that these womyn express.