The Left Berlin Reading Group: Queers in Palestine

This Reading group was originally scheduled for July. This is the new event

(organised jointly with Internationalist Queer Pride)

Suggested Reading

• Jad Salfiti I’m a queer Palestinian. Stop using my identity as cover for the destruction of Gaza
• Harriet Williamson  Israel Targets LGBTQ+ Palestinians for Blackmail As Part of a System of Sexualised Violence
• IGLYO  Pinkwashing & Homonationalism: Hiding Violence behind a Rainbow Veil
• Sal Tamarkin and Dr. Sa’ed Atshan  Why Queer Solidarity With Palestine Is Not “Chickens for KFC”

Supplementary Reading

• Samar Habib, Nayla Moujaes and Rauda Morcos  Between Patriarchy and Occupation: Palestinian Lesbian Activism for Bodily Rights
• Haneen Maikey and Mikki Stelder  Dismantling the Pink Door in the Apartheid Wall: Towards a Decolonized Palestinian Queer Politics

Supplementary Listening

• The Queer Arab Podcast  alQawa!