Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference

Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference Le***an, gay, bisexual and transgender people in all configurations around the world have always experienced dramatic differences in representation and power.

A conference examining q***r resistance and complicity globally -- Read more on the conference website: http://homonationalism.org/ - CLAGS on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/clags.org Homonationalism and Pinkwashing @ The Center for Le***an and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
April 10-11, 2013

Keynotes by Jasbir Puar, Rabih Alameddine, and Haneen MaiKey

The Center for Le***an and Gay Studies is pleased to announce a conference “Homonationalism and Pinkwashing” to be held April 10-11, 2013 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Today, after generations of sacrifice and organization, some LGBT people have won full legal rights with different degrees of implementation. Once hard to imagine, protection from discrimination, full relationship recognition, and inclusion in representation are now daily possibilities for some. In the United States, le***an, gay, and bisexual people have been invited into an equality defined, not by rights, but by the ability to participate openly in immoral wars. The co-opting of some LGBT people by anti-immigrant and in particular anti-Muslim political forces is widespread and growing. Rutgers Professor Jasbir Puar has coined the term “Homonationalism” to define collusion between LGBT people and identification with the nation state, re-enforcement of racial and national boundary, and systems of supremacy ideology no longer interrupted by homophobia. Homonationalism has spread far from its roots in European xenophobia and US militarism to become an increasingly potent tool in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Faced with intensifying criticism and the threat of economic boycott, the Israeli government expanded their marketing plan by harnessing Homonationalism to reposition its global image. The campaign intended "to improve Israel's image through the gay community in Israel," The Jerusalem Post quoted one government supporter of the campaign. This deliberate and highly funded program is what anti-occupation activists have named "Pinkwashing."The campaign not only manipulates the hard-won gains of Israel's gay rights movement, but it also ignores the existence of Palestinian gay-rights organizations. These groups rightly note that the oppression of Palestinians crosses the boundary of sexuality; as Haneen Maikay, a keynote speaker at our conference and the director of Al Qaws:For Gender and Sexual Diversity in Palestinian Society, said in a recent lecture tour in the United States, "When you go through a checkpoint it does not matter what the sexuality of the soldier is."

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Tonight: The International Resource Network (IRN) celebrates its 10 year anniversary with guest speakers, appetizers, an...
10/10/2013

Tonight: The International Resource Network (IRN) celebrates its 10 year anniversary with guest speakers, appetizers, and wine. It might be of interest to you who attended the Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference. RSVP here ---> http://bit.ly/14qU8mx

Join us as we celebrate the first decade of IRN and honor the individuals who initiated the project as well as the regional coordinators who remain dedicated to its future. The evening will feature guest speakers, video testimonials, and an interactive look at the many resources generated by IRN ove...

If you attended the Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference last year, you might be interested in checking out the li...
09/17/2013

If you attended the Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference last year, you might be interested in checking out the line-up at The Center for Le***an and Gay Studies in the Fall as well! We have many exciting events coming up and we are excited to see you all there.

Please note: CLAGS always welcomes proposals for events or presentations relevant to le***an, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities and scholarship. The Program Committee evaluates proposals in conjunction with the CLAGS Board of Directors and the Events and Outreach Coordinator. CLAGS e...

We just posted all the links to the YouTube videos of the Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference's panels on our web...
07/30/2013

We just posted all the links to the YouTube videos of the Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference's panels on our website, so that you can easier find all of them in one place.

Please note that the above panels are not all of the conference’s panels. We are still working on getting some of the videos up on YouTube. If you’d like to receive a notification when they are available, please like CLAGS’ page where the videos will be announced.

And that's a wrap! All the videos from the conference have been posted on CLAGS' page (http://www.facebook.com/...
07/17/2013

And that's a wrap! All the videos from the conference have been posted on CLAGS' page (http://www.facebook.com/clags.org), and just to remind you: all the videos are also collected under CLAGS' YouTube page: youtube.com/clagsny (see link below). Let us know if you have any issues watching the videos, and feel free to spread the videos to your colleagues and in all of your networks!

See all the videos from the Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference here.

The panel "The Q***r Arab Imaginary" is now available on YouTube. It was moderated by Dana Olwan, Syracuse University, a...
07/12/2013

The panel "The Q***r Arab Imaginary" is now available on YouTube. It was moderated by Dana Olwan, Syracuse University, and featured presentations on interactive media and documentaries as activism, q***r Arab organizing, and considerations of transgender liberation, by Nadia Awad, Bashar Makhay, and Trish Saleh.

Panel "The Q***r Arab Imaginary" from CLAGS' conference Homonationalism and Pinkwashing at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, April 10-11, 2013. For m...

07/11/2013

The panel "The Psychology of Pinkwashing" was chaired by Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania and had JL Haycock, Rachel Byrne, Jen Jack Gieseking, Jennifer Kelly, Tallie Ben Daniel, and Darnell Moore speaking on issues of complicity, politics of protest, lives of le***ans and q***rs in NYC in the 1980s and 1990s, tourism, the branding of Israel in SF, LGBTQ Youth Homelessness, and Same-Sex Marriage Advocacy. Check it out now!

Panel "The Psychology of Pinkwashing" from CLAGS' conference Homonationalism and Pinkwashing at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, April 10-11, 2013. ...

Don't miss the video from the panel "Impossible Communities." The panel was moderated by Nava EtShalom, University of Pe...
07/10/2013

Don't miss the video from the panel "Impossible Communities." The panel was moderated by Nava EtShalom, University of Pennsylvania, and features presentations on American anti-arab/anti-muslim feelings, rage as political practice, assimilation and anti-intersecionality, an analysis of a demonstration in East Jerusalem/Al-Quds, and migration and homosexuality in Europe. Presentations by Emmaia Gelman, Yael Mishali, Karma Chavez, Amy Brandzel, Masha Averbuch, Yossi David, and Andrew Shield.

Panel "Impossible Communities" from CLAGS' conference Homonationalism and Pinkwashing at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, April 10-11, 2013. For mor...

From the conference: "LGBT Rescue Narratives." The panel was moderated by Gayatri Gopinath, New York University. Present...
07/09/2013

From the conference: "LGBT Rescue Narratives." The panel was moderated by Gayatri Gopinath, New York University. Presentations by Katherin Fobear, Colleen Jankovic, Emrah Yildiz, and Fatime Jaffer on settler homonationalism and LGBTQ refugees in Canada, q***r Palestine, International Refugee Law in relation to Iranian refugees in Turkey, and the media and q***r organizing in Canada. Don't miss it!

Panel "LGBT Rescue Narratives" from CLAGS' conference Homonationalism and Pinkwashing at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, April 10-11, 2013. For mor...

07/06/2013

Here is the third video release from the Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference, the panel "Transgender and the Transnational," moderated by Human Rights Activist Pauline Park. Presentations by Sally Spalding, Saffo Papantonopoulou, Eli Avidan, and Taylor Cruz, on trans bodies in TSA's Airport Security, the Zionist Economy of Gratitude, borders of nation and gender in Israel, and on how to decolonize transgender healthcare.

Panel "Transgender and the Transnational" from CLAGS' conference Homonationalism and Pinkwashing at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, April 10-11, 20...

The second video is now up from the Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference. It is of the panel "US LGBT Agenda: Fami...
07/06/2013

The second video is now up from the Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference. It is of the panel "US LGBT Agenda: Family, Safe Space, Bullying, 'Getting Better'," moderated by Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota. Presentations by Selma Al-Aswad, Sid Jordan, Doug Meyer, Rachel Levitt, and Katie Bashore on safe spaces, the It Gets Better campaign, the Lawrence King Trial, and the Ravi/Clementi Su***de Scandal. Check it out!

Panel "US LGBT Agenda: Family, Safe Space, Bullying, 'Getting Better'" from CLAGS' conference Homonationalism and Pinkwashing at The Graduate Center, CUNY, N...

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