Talks
My academic talks examine fashion and textile practices as forms of political expression, visual critique, and collective world-making. Lectures and conference presentations have addressed creative activism in Palestine/Israel, queer and feminist art, textile media, fashion under settler colonialism, and the political life of photographs. My public-facing talks extend this work into international museums, film festivals, and cultural institutions, where I am regularly invited to discuss the relationship between fashion, power, memory, and anticolonial struggles.
Guest Lectures (most recent)
2025
“Activist Fashion in Contemporary Palestine”
Institute of Art in the Arab World, Lebanese American University
23 October 2025
“Queer Art and Fashion in Palestine”
Graduate Research Seminar, Creativity from the Margins, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, University of British Columbia
3 March 2025
2024
“What’s Queer About Queer Fashion Now?”
New Directions in Queer and Feminist Fashion Studies Workshop Series, Ghent University
5 June 2024
“Queer Threads: Fashion in Palestine”
Palestine Lecture Series, Department of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University
28 February 2024
2023
“Dressed for Dissent: The Rise of a Fashion Movement in Palestine/Israel”
The New School, School of Art & Design History and Theory
16 February 2023
2022
“Redressing the State: The Queer Visual Politics of Palestinian Fashion”
School of Political Science & International Studies, Visual Politics Research Center, University of Queensland
24 November 2022
“Designing a Way Out: The Rise of a Queer-Feminist Movement”
Queensland University of Technology
21 November 2022
“Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress”
Design Innovation Research Center, University of Technology Sydney
16 November 2022
“Queer Threads: Photographers and Designers in a War Zone”
Communication and Culture graduate program, Toronto Metropolitan University
27 October 2022
“Fashion Media under Settler Colonialism”
Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University
19 October 2022
2021
“The Fashion Magazine as a Desirous Queer Archive”
Transnational Periodical Cultures Research Center, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
28 April 2021
2020
“‘Queer, Black, Fabulous’: Fashion Media’s Intersectional Imaginaries”
Keynote Inaugural Lecture for the Gender Studies MA Program, Università Roma Tre
25 September 2020
“Critical Fashion in the Middle East”
Annual Design History Lecture, University of Technology Sydney
4 March 2020
Conference Presentations (most recent)
2026
“Militant Fashion and the Aesthetics of Stealth in Jenin”
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
24 June 2026
2025
“The Cloth(es) of Gaza”
Violence and Visuality Conference, American University of Beirut
24 October 2025
2024
“Redressing the Homeland: Textiles and Feminism in Palestinian Diasporic Art”
New Work in Queer and Feminist Fashion Studies Annual Workshop, University of British Columbia
27–28 June 2024
“‘Dababeer Nest’: Fashion Storytelling in Jenin”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Boston
16–18 March 2024
2023
“Queer Stealth: Fashioning Fugitivity in Palestine”
World Picture Conference, Institute for Cultural Analysis (ICI), Berlin
17 November 2023
“Fashion Media Activism in Palestine/Israel”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Denver
12–15 April 2023
“Fashion Justice in the West Bank”
Earth, Water, Air, Fire: The Four Elements of Fashion Conference, Iuav Università di Venezia, Venice
16–17 March 2023
“Fashion Media vs. the State”
College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York
15–17 February 2023
2022
“Fashion without a Nation? The Queer Case of Palestine”
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA), RMIT Melbourne
1–3 December 2022
“Dressed for Dissent: The Queer Life of Clothes Under Occupation”
Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference, Columbia College Chicago
2–4 June 2022
“Designing a Way Out: The Rise of a Queer-Feminist Fashion Movement in Palestine”
Costume Society of America (CSA) Annual Conference, Minneapolis
25–28 May 2022
“Queer Threads: Activist Fashion Media in Israel/Palestine”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Chicago
31 March–3 April 2022
“Queer Threads: Fashion Design and Media Activism in Israel/Palestine”
College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Chicago
16–19 February 2022
2021
“In Praise of Crossdressing: Queer Ethnography in the Work of Mario Mieli”
Fashion Tales: Politics through the Wardrobe Conference, Università Cattolica, Milan
17–19 June 2021
“Have Fashion Magazines Ever Been Queer?”
Fashion & Queer Culture Conference, Drexel University, Philadelphia
21–22 May 2021
2020
“Decentering Queer Futures: Fashion Media Practices in the Middle East”
Fashion at the Periphery Conference, The Art Institute of Chicago
5–8 October 2020
“Fashion Gestures in a Conflict Zone”
Critical Fashion Studies Conference, University of Melbourne
26–28 February 2020
Public Talks
2026
Speaker, “Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine” symposium
Victoria & Albert Museum Dundee
22 April 2026
2025
Speaker, “Fashion and Power” symposium
Spui 25, Amsterdam
27 May 2025
2024
Panelist, “The Fashion Programme”
Curated by Roberto Filippello, Palestine Film Festival Amsterdam (PFFA), LAB111 Amsterdam
10 October 2024
2023
Panelist, “The Fashion Programme”
Curated by Roberto Filippello, Queer Cinema for Palestine, OT301 Amsterdam
7 December 2023