Khookha McQueer

Khookha comes from a conservative Tunisian family. After going through a severe depression, they left university and started their LGBT+ activism. They came out twice: once in regards to their sexual orientation, as a gay guy, before having their transition, and the second in 2015 in regards to their identity as a trans non-binary woman; thus starting to use the English pronouns They and Them and the feminine pronouns for French and Arabic, as well as their chosen name, Khookha McQueer. For them, although they identify as non binary and not as a woman, they still prefer using the feminine pronouns in french and arabic to express that part of their identity that was oppressed during a large part of their life.

Khookha McQueer (Arabic : خوخة مكوير), born on the 17th of March 1987, is a Tunisian, LGBT+ and feminist activist and artist.

They started their professional career as a graphic designer. All of their work is shared on their official Instagram account. Their works deal with the question of identity and non-binarity. The artist also aims to show the challenges the Tunisian LGBT community face in a normative heterosexual and homophobic society according to what them. They accept that we qualify the work they produce as ''drag'', but they consider themselves and their art work as a living experience whose parameter that changes with each product is the gender and its esthetic expression. They get a lot of their artistic inspiration from the Tunisian heritage, but their main muses remain the 1980s and 1990s divas from the Middle-East and Latin America such as Sherihan, Thalía and Nawal Al Zoghbi.