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This paper explores different attempts at collaborative methodologies regarding care practices in Palestine. Drawing on feminist, queer and decolonial approaches, it reflects on the possibilities and commitments of co-producing research navigating the imposed academic/activist dichotomy.

Paper long abstract

This paper reflects on an ongoing PhD project exploring Queer Care in Palestine as a temporally and spatially situated anti-colonial practice. Building upon previous research on Radio Alhara and international solidarity, it examines how care, mutual aid, and collective resistance are reconfigured under ongoing occupation and genocide. Combining visual ethnography, Relief Maps, and decolonial, feminist, queer and collaborative methodologies, the project situates care simultaneously as theory, method and praxis. It also interrogates the institutionalized manufactured tension between academic legitimacy and academic praxis, while envisioning alternative future(s) grounded in liberation and radical hope. Building on ongoing fieldwork in Palestine (May 2024, October 2025), this research explores queer-feminist solidarity as a form of decolonial praxis that challenges the dominant narratives surrounding Palestine. It traces how translocal networks of resistance mobilize radical care, art, and collective knowledge production against settler colonialism, pinkwashing, and neoliberal co-optation. Methodologically, the projects experiment with zine-making, DIY media, collective podcasts, concerts, listening sessions, photographic exhibitions, short-video and collective mapping. These practices are approached not only as modes of dissemination but as epistemological tools that privilege embodied knowledge, memory and affect, while challenging extractive and colonial research relations. By exploring visual ethnographic practices, this research tries to merge the academia/activism equilibrium with art. At the same time, it exists in constant tension with institutionalized forms of knowledge production that fail to acknowledge the validity of this equilibrium. Still, from the margins, we continue to occupy space and create new ways of building hope and alternative future(s) based on liberation.