Location: Fully Remote with occasional travel
Duration: 6 months
Contract duration: Fellows are expected to work from 15 March to 15 September
Stipend: Fellows will receive a small stipend for the duration of the fellowship.
Project overview:
Tanit Feminist Research Platform is an intersectional feminist archive and research initiative dedicated to preserving the unspoken struggles of those historically underrepresented or misrepresented due to their non-hegemonic sexualities, gender attributions, and body expressions. In a landscape where access to reliable and inclusive resources remains limited, Tanit seeks to challenge misinformation and knowledge exclusion by providing accessible, well-researched materials on gender and sexuality in multiple formats and languages.
One of Tanit’s key projects, “Tarikhna Hna,” is a decolonial, feminist, queer, open-source archive that delves into gender and sexuality in the Moroccan context. Since its launch in 2020, it has documented over 200 materials across politics, art, popular culture, and media. Supported in collaboration with Nassawiyat Collective, this initiative strengthens the archive’s vision and enriches its content. Together, we work towards rebuilding a collective memory that reclaims feminist and queer narratives within the Moroccan context.
Archiving is an ongoing effort, and “Tarikhna Hna” continues to grow. Each year, we invite volunteers to join this project in order to expand and sustain this effort, ensuring that the archive remains dynamic and reflective of evolving experiences and narratives. This is why we are opening this fellowship—to invite more voices to contribute and continue the work of preserving and documenting our histories.
Please visit Hna.ma for more information.
Fellowship Overview
Tanit Feminist Research Platform is inviting four fellows to contribute to documenting and archiving topics that align with the archive’s core themes spanning from politics, art, media, popular culture, and beyond. While priority will be given to the following topics, the fellowship remains open to other suggestions, perspectives, and research areas, encouraging individuals from multiple backgrounds to apply. Subjects not included among the following will be considered:
- Queerness and Amazigh culture (e.g., oral history, poetry, music, literature)
- Transgender, gender nonconforming, and gender-diverse communities (e.g., oral histories)
- The Feminist Movement in Morocco (e.g., oral History, magazines)
- Immigration and migrant communities
- Queer popular culture (e.g., the encrypted languages, Mwasem, artistic expression)
- Queerness in Moroccan cinema
This fellowship seeks to co-create a space for collective learning and exchange. Through online meetings, workshops, and training sessions, this effort will engage in discussions and practices that deepen our common understanding of queer feminist archiving within the Moroccan context, as well as an opportunity to learn about decolonial feminist research methodologies. This experience is shaped by dynamic collaboration, co-creation and mutual learning from each experience among Fellows and the Tanit Team, fostering new ways of documenting our histories.
Fellowship Requirements
As a decolonial queer feminist archive, we are committed to making knowledge production and archival work flexible, accessible, and reflective of locally-grounded experiences of queer communities. Our fellowship program is designed to be inclusive and open to individuals from diverse backgrounds who share our commitment to documenting and preserving queer histories and narratives reflective of Moroccan lived realities.
Who Can Apply?
The fellowship is open to anyone who:
- Has experience in social sciences, research, or related fields;
- Has previous experience in research through any form of affiliation, including academic;institutions, NGOs, grassroots organising, or personal projects;
- Has been involved in feminist and/or queer dynamics;
- Is familiar with or interested in decolonial, feminist, and queer archival methodologies.
How to apply?
Please fill this form before the 28/02/2025
