ABOUT THE ARTISTS

1) Jamal Ouazzani, France
Jamal is a French-Moroccan Muslim “artivist,” writer, poet, film director, and screenwriter. After a decade in international advertising and reading extensively on gender, race, and feminism, he became a DEI consultant and keynote speaker.

2) Douce Dibondo, France
Douce Dibondo is an essayist, poet, and performer whose work explores Blackness, queerness, feminism, ancestry, and decoloniality. She challenges the Western worldview, invoking a multidimensional, ever-evolving present through fiction, essays, poetry, and performance.

3) Kadir Özdemir, Germany
Kadir Özdemir is an author, theatre maker, and political educator. After studying Modern History and Sociology, Kadir Özdemir has been working for over 20 years in the fields of migration, participation, intersectionality, and empowerment.

4) Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, Germany
Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç (*1989) is a Berlin-based political scientist and award-winning poet. He studied social sciences in Vienna, Berlin, and Cambridge and teaches at Berlin universities.

5) Hameeda Syed, India
Hameeda Syed (she/they) is a Shia Kashmiri journalist with over five years of experience in writing, reporting, and research, focusing on gender and society.

6) Poongodi Mathiarasu, India
Poongodi Mathiarasu is an independent artist and traveling educator with a graduate degree in Journalism and a postgraduate degree in Folklore and Cultural Studies.

ABOUT QUEER CARAVAN

The Queer Caravan is a collaborative residency program led by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, the French Institute in India, and The Queer Muslim Project, with support from the German-French Cultural Fund. This unique initiative brings together queer storytellers and artists from France, Germany, and India to amplify underrepresented LGBTQIA+ voices and foster cross-cultural dialogue