Summary
Black queer prison abolitionist from Chicago who traveled to Palestine with the Freedom Bus and whose interviews anchor Kelly’s accounts of translation and of “hanging out” (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.235, 254-256). Named in the Acknowledgments (PDF p.10-11).
Details
- Green shared, in report-backs, communicating with children in Jenin through gestures and fragments of English and Arabic (PDF p.235).
- “I never thought there would be hanging out in Palestine.” The nonorchestrated moments mattered more than ten playback theatre performances that “lost its charm”: “in the fragments between scheduled events” a Palestine appeared not defined only as “always under attack” (PDF p.254).
- On images: “there aren’t enough images of Palestinian people, framed in a way that doesn’t mitigate [critiques of] Israel, images of the hospitality, kindness, images that aren’t about witnessing them” (PDF p.256).
Related pages
Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, Solidarity Tourism, Witnessing, Black–Palestinian solidarity