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A Moment For Movement Building: LGBTSTGNC POC Groups Welcome Queer Palestinians to The Audre Lorde Project

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Friday, February 18, 2011 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm

Palestinian Queer Activists Talk Politics

Queer Palestinian groups began to emerge in Israel and the West Bank as early as 2001. After a decade of activism, we aspire to lead a new queer movement that is integral to the Palestinian society, a movement that interlinks and intersects with other social and political struggles and communities. We hope to pave the road way for a relevant and local sexual discourse and a more visible LGBTQ activism.

How is the Palestinian queer movement similar and different than other LGBTQ movements around the world? What are the questions, challenges, and beliefs that shape the discourse of the Palestinian queer movement? How can the other queer people understand and work with issues of visibility and the notion of “coming out” within the Palestinian context? What are the goals, joys, challenges, strategies and dreams of these groups?

From February 5-18, 2011 Ghadir of Aswat – Palestinian Gay Women and Haneen Maikey and Sami Shamali of alQaws - for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, will be on a ground breaking tour of 6 US cities for a series of open conversations moderated by locally and nationally known US activists.

Join us. Listen, ask, learn and connect.

Organized and Moderated by Jasbir Puar, author of "Terrorist Assemblages" and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers. Co-Sponsored by SALGA, Q-Wave, GAPIMNY, Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Queers for Economic Justice.

Healing and Justice: A Shift in NYC?

When: 
Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
What does healing have to do with social justice? What role does trauma play in our movements? How do we ensure that our coworkers are in good health and good spirits? How is our work compromised when we do not have self-care support in the work place? How does the history of the medical industrial complex effect each of our bodies as we work, as we push for joy, for justice? What does the pace of work in NYC non-profits have to do with institutions of capitalism, ableism, and other systems of oppression?

 

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