Queers For Palestine x FORT 2025 A3 poster by Firpal

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Designed and @printedatfort by @firpal for @queers.for.palestine. All profits from this print will go to causes decided by @queers.for.palestine (£4 per print sale, with £1 per sale funding the poster's production) DESIGNED BY STUDIO RESIDENT @FIRPAL.

From Firpal about their design:

I was listening to ‘singing sexuality’ volumes, one and two. Which I found through Alqaws here. "Minkom O Feekom” is a colloquial way for us to say we are an integral part of society, a statement against social denial and colonial narratives isolating Palestinian queers from Palestinian society, and an invitation for our society to engage in a discussion around sexual and gender diversity in Palestine.

Within this I was listening to Yusor a queer Palestinian artist called Yusor who plays and studies the Qunan. Widely used in Palestine. 

My work tries to visually preserve ornaments and objects so I chose the Qunan. 

The other aspect of the drawing revolves around the preservation of Tatreez embroidery. All of the tatreez layers and textures in the image  are sourced from Tirazain Palestinian tatreez library which you can find here and here.

Other motifs in the image include an olive branch across the lacquered edge of the Qunan. Several dove silhouettes in light and also Palestinian flag 🇵🇸 colours. 

References for the two people playing the Qunan came from traditional and contemporary formal Palestinian clothing.

Printed by RISO on recycled Birch paper with Red, Green, Aqua and Metallic Gold organic soy-based ink.

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