Greater than the Sum of Our Parts by Nada Elia

Author:Nada Elia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pluto Press

Puar had traveled to Palestine in 2011 with a delegation of sixteen US-based LGBTQ+ academics and activists organized by alQaws, Aswat (Arabic for “Voices,” a Palestinian lesbian organization), and Jewish American queer writer and activist Sarah Schulman. AlQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, which first formed in Jerusalem, has since grown into a national organization with four hubs across historic Palestine. It has always understood and argued that the struggle takes place simultaneously on multiple fronts, whereas Israel seeks to project the struggle of queer Palestinians as a single-issue struggle to achieve “gay rights,” that is, visibility, coming out, and pride events, with no mention of all the freedoms that queer Palestinians aspire to. In a May 2021 article, alQaws wrote:

Queer liberation is fundamentally tied to the dreams of Palestinian liberation: self-determination, dignity, and the end of all systems of oppression. In a settler colonial context, no clear line can be drawn where colonialism ends and patriarchal violence begins. The fight against patriarchy and sexual oppression is intertwined with the fight against settler-colonialism and capitalism.69

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