Queer hobo poet has been called Elham Malekpoor Arashlu since 29th July 1983 has published several collections of poetry, most of which have been banned or censored in Iran and has had several writings published or non-published including poetry, short story, article and research; by own name or various aliases. The theoretical human rights activist who believes in saving the world with words.
Elham is also known as a human rights activist who is particularly dealing with child labor and queer rights and keeps the fame of a poet who has been active in both the literary domain and in human rights activities. A semi-blind has graduated from both agricultural engineering and Persian literature and had be on the Protective Fellowship Scheme for Human Rights Defenders at Risk at the center for applied human rights at the university of York and had work on the “Historicizing HOMAN” project on the first group engaged in writing the history of sexual minorities in Iran during staying at York.
Elham was a member of JoopeA since the beginning (2009). She is participating and cooperating as an adviser and editor. Elham joined the management team in 2015, created JoopeA’s editorial guideline and new organization Status. She is the main organizer of Homophilia Campaign & was a major actor for IranPride campaign before 2018.
Unfortunately, she had to leave us permanently due to her personal situation on 25th of July 2018.
To be in touch with Elham, you can follow her Twitter.
He was born short after 1979 revolution in Vasfenard, a neighborhood in south of Tehran. He was raising in a middle class religious family among three other siblings.
He was interested in poetry and storytelling since childhood. He was spending most of his time in reading novels and poems since he left university.
He is writing in several newspapers, websites and blogs.
He believes in agnostic, socialism, ٰpoststructuralism and anarchism. He is active in workers unions and left wings, ethnicity minorities, queer rights and children rights.
He starts working as chief editor in JoopeA foundation since January 2014.
You can send email to editor [at] joopea [dot] com to be touch with him.
Raham Rafiee is the founder of JoopeA Foundation, this very NGO that focuses on minorities issues inside Iran while also engaging in civil society activities on behalf of gender minorities within immigrant communities in Amsterdam.
Mr. Rafiee promotes awareness and dialogue within the primarily Middle Eastern immigrant communities in the Netherlands, where acceptance of gender minorities is limited and a source of high-profile political debate. As part of these efforts, Mr. Rafiee and JoopeA organized the first participation of Iranian Queers in Parade in Tehran back in 2010 & the first Iran Group in Amsterdam Pride Parade after.
He is enthusiastic computer programmer in many related fields. In Addition, he works in IT & Tech field.
JoopeA foundation has been registered under his name as chairman of board in Oct 2014 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
To be in touch with him you can follow his Twitter or Facebook account or send email to rafiee [at] joopea [dot] com
We are pleased to announced that JoopeA News (J News) has been re-opened.
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J News is a platform to gather and re-publish topics on Sexual Rights in other Persian Media channels. Additionally, it publishes new articles on taboo topics related to Sexual Rights in Persian such as LGBTIQ, Women’s rights, Children Abuse, Children Marriage and etc.
J News was active from Sep 2011 to July 2014. Then it stopped to make redy for a more powerful and effective activity. J News has been re-opened since Nov 22, 2015. Archives are still accessible through this link: http://fa.news.joopea.com
This website can be a great help to whom looking for uncensored and reliable information on Sexual Rights in Persian from young adults to researchers. All posts on the website is public and free of charge under Creative Commons (cc) v3 license. Copy part or all of content from J News is allowed by mentioning the source. Copy part or all of media which has republished from other sources should be done by original source’s permission. For more information about J News copy rights please visit https://joopea.com/about-joopea/copyright/
JoopeA, is a not-for-profit foundation on the field of Human Rights by focusing on LGBTIQ Rights & Internet Freedom. This group has been established in 2009 (1389) with cooperation and participation of number of queer bloggers, queer practitioners, Human Rights activists and professional programmers all as a network of friends.
We believe in A Free World as our ultimate vision. Thus, our mission is:
To promote universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the elimination of all forms of discrimination and stigmatization*.
In Oct. 2014 this group was officially registered in Chamber of Commerce of the Netherlands based in Amsterdam by E. Rafiee as director. JoopeA has developed many different projects such as JNews, JAssist & many more, each & every focused to expand access to internet, freedom of speech, sexual rights & knowledge.
JoopeA believes in shared management and cooperative system. In the other words we don’t follow the traditional pyramid system of organizational management. While every member is responsible to fulfills their task, all decisions are made and tasks are assigned by mutual agreement of members.
JoopeA is non-profit organization & mainly operate by donations from organizations & individuals. If you are interested in donating to JoopeA Foundation please visit this link.
We are pleased to be in touch publicly and share topics of everything going on in our foundation. We believe in honesty and mutual trust. And this will not come true if we don’t share major events transparently.
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You will review main events, process of decision making and even more information of JoopeA foundation such as yearly financial reports.
Please don’t hesitate to ask questions. We are here to answer.
Looking forward to hear from you,
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