Event overview
Goldsmiths Anthropology Seminar Series
From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement. Solidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestinians, even as they fight patriarchy and imperialism, are themselves subjected to an 'empire of critique' from Israeli and Palestinian institutions, Western academics, journalists and filmmakers, and even fellow activists. Such global criticism has limited growth and led to an emphasis within the movement on anti-imperialism over the struggle against homophobia.
In this talk about his recent book ‘Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique,’ Sa'ed Atshan asks how transnational progressive social movements can balance struggles for liberation along more than one axis. He explores critical junctures in the history of Palestinian LGBTQ activism, revealing the queer Palestinian spirit of agency, defiance, and creativity, in the face of daunting pressures, and forces working to constrict it. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique explores the necessity of connecting the struggles for Palestinian freedom with the struggle against homophobia.
Sa'ed Atshan is Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College. He is author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (2020), and the coauthor of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (2020).
This seminar is part of the Goldsmiths Anthropology Seminar Series. Seminars are free and open to all, no booking required.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2022 | 2:15pm - 4:00pm |
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