A research study about Iranian Queer Refugees.
Joined February 2022
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25 Jul 2024
We are incredibly excited to announce that our project's documentary will be out this Autumn! The Other Place is a documentary that explores the struggles of #queer #Iranian #migrants forced to flee their homeland due to their #sexualorientation and #genderidentity.
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24 Feb 2025
Check out our latest blog piece: ‘Surviving Trauma: Queer Lives in Iran and the Psychological Impact of Forced Migration’, written by Karolína Tajovská. Karolina worked with NQIfFM in 2024 as an International Junior Research Associate. Thanks, Karolina!
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28 Jan 2025
And now we have a full web page of outputs from the NQIfFM project! You can check out:
🎥 our documentary
🔥 our poetry collection
🎧 our podcasts
✒️our submission to the UN Independent Expert on SOGI
and others!
Enjoy! 💓
iranqueerefugee.net/outputs/
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22 Jan 2025
1/4 We couldn't be happier about finally releasing the NQIfFM project's documentary, The Other Place. The Other Place captures the lived experiences of queer Iranian migrants forced to flee persecution in their homeland.
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22 Jan 2025
3/4 Read more about it by clicking here iranqueerefugee.net/wp-conte… We've been anxious for this moment and are so happy to finally share this wonderful documentary with the world.
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20 Jan 2025
We're happy to publish our submission to the Call for Input by the UN IE SOGI on ‘Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in relation to forced displacement’.
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20 Jan 2025
Our submission presents some key findings and recommendations based on our fieldwork in Iran, Turkey, the UK and Canada. You can read the whole text in our database - just follow the link!
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18 Jan 2025
We're extremely happy to release the podcast series of the @Iranqueeref project! Besides the podcast with Sima's story - which we had already released a while ago - you can now also find the stories of Mani, Sobhan and Saghi on Spotify.
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15 Nov 2024
1/4 Wonderful news from the European Court of Human Rights! The Court found in M.I. v Switzerland that the removal of the applicant to Iran without a fresh assessment of the risk of ill-treatment as a homosexual man in Iran and...
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15 Nov 2024
3/4... (still too much deference to the domestic authorities' assessment of the applicant's credibility, insufficient 'just satisfaction', etc), but all in all a small step towards the right direction (and a partly dissenting opinion from Judge Serghides...
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15 Nov 2024
4/4... arguing for a more favourable judgment!). We're very happy for the applicant and congratulations to everyone involved in making sure this happened. Follow the link for more information 👇
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11 Nov 2024
We are so happy to announce that the NQIfFM (iranqueerefugee.net/) poetry collection "Rainbows on Rugged Terrains: Poetics of Queer Iranians in Exile" is now out! It features poetry from queer Iranians in exile in Turkey, the UK, and Canada.
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11 Nov 2024
These beautiful & powerful poems were written by our participants and talk about their experiences of rejection, deprivation, isolation, fear, forced migration, uprootedness, displacement, suspension, non-belonging, loss, despair, & yearning for inclusion, home, love & security.
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11 Nov 2024
We are forever grateful to our participants for having shared their art and talent in this format & to @TP_London for their support & encouragement in the process of publishing this collection. You can read the poems for free online or buy a paper copy from @TP_London website.
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1 Oct 2024
More good news! Our documentary "The Other Place" has been officially selected for the "Human Rights Are Universal Arts Festival". The event will take place from October 3-14. More details to follow!
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27 Sep 2024
More wonderful news about our documentary: "The Other Place" was selected by Lift-Off Global Networks! The festival is online between 7-20 Oct. The audience chooses the best films, so don't miss this opportunity to watch our documentary and vote for us!
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