SOGIESC and the Family Expert

The purpose of this initiative is to fill in
knowledge gaps with regards to how parents, family members, and allies can understand
queer individuals in their families and how they can be more supportive in their life and
upbringing. The initiative is designed to combat mythologies and misconceptions with
regards to the relationship between SOGIESC and nature/nurture, SOGIESC change
efforts, and other relevant topics to rainbow families. The segment is designed with parents
in mind in particular and offers multiple resources for individuals looking for support,
community, and accurate information. Topics would range from psychology, education,
SOGIESC, parenting, and others. The initiative is designed to equip individuals with
information to debunk harmful misconceptions and reduce domestic violence and abuse of
queer youth in the MENA region.

Desired Outcome: The purpose of this project is to provide users with epistemic information on
gender, and sexuality at a click of a button. It seeks to create an exhaustive list of Questions to the
most popular inquiries, pervasive mythologies, and hidden truths and facts and provide Answers
to them in an accessible abridged, but thoroughly researched and cited format. The Q&A segment
would concentrate on elucidating concepts related to parenting and raising queer children and to
purposefully increase the amount of available knowledge, data and evidence for individuals to
make the best decisions for themselves and their families. The gathered information will be
presented in a user-friendly and accessible platform which will serve as a reference for users to
access freely in Arabic and English languages. By surfing Helem’s digital search engine platform,
users will be able to instantly gain access to an archive of information via a simple and informative
web directory. Users will be able to explore answers about diverse family dynamics in the Arab
region within multiple Q&A formats.

Key Concepts: Sexuality; Arab queer history; identity and belonging; cultural, societal, and legal
understandings of gender; Politics; Arab queer terminologies; discrimination, stigma, and fear.
Deliverables:

● Review the complete and comprehensive addendum contents and further reading for each
question and sub-category/subject.
● Review and edit the topic description of each sub-category to be utilized in promotional
material.
● Review and copy-edit the generated questions & answers.
● Review the digitized database of information including questions, answers, categories, and
references.
● Accompany a graphic designer in the creation of all audio-visual material for the digital
web directory platform.
● Ensure all aforementioned information is correctly translated into Arabic/English through
a meticulous review of all translations.