Khookha McQueer

Khookha McQueer (; born 17 March 1987) is a Tunisian, LGBT+ and feminist activist and artist.

They are one of the first trans women known to the general public in Tunisia.

Biography Khookha comes from a conservative Tunisian family. After going through a severe depression, they left university and started their LGBT+ activism. They came out twice: once in regards to their sexual orientation, as a gay man, before having their transition, and the second in 2015 in regards to their identity as a trans non-binary woman; thus starting to use the English pronouns They and Them and the feminine pronouns for French and Arabic, All of their work is shared on their official Instagram account. Their works deal with the question of identity and non-binarity.

Moreover, the activist wants to change the binary and patriarchal culture at the level of the language within the Tunisian community and the Arabic-speaking one in general, by proposing a sort of an alternative inclusive language that includes both of the female and masculine forms, and which they use in all of their academic publications or on their social media through their columns and feminist narratives.

For three years, Khookha was a member of a couple of LGBT+ organisations, like Mawjoudin,