Summary
Jasbir Puar’s term as drawn on in Chapter 7 of For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group: the universalisation of LGBT rights that binds movements elsewhere to Stonewall-era forms of organising, in which LGBTQ people all over the world are held to experience, practise and be motivated by the same desires, with politics grounded in stable identity (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.129).
Details
- In the chapter, Israeli homonationalism underlies the gay-tourism form of Pinkwashing: LGBT Israelis defining and promoting Israel through its gay parties and beaches and locals welcoming foreigners in, naturalising the settler-colonial regime through queer desires and bodies expressing ownership of indigenous land (PDF p.134-135).
- AlQaws’s refusal of Western LGBT organising hegemony — deconstructing coming out, homophobia, pride and visibility for the Palestinian context — is presented as resistance to this framework (PDF p.140-141).
Related pages
For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, Pinkwashing, AlQaws