Pinkwashing

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Mon, 03/11/2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am

Laurie Mercier speaks with Nishant Shahani about "Pinkwashing," in the context of Israel/Palestine. Shahani is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of English at Washington State University Vancouver. He is author of the books Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India (2021) and Queer Retrosexualities: The Politics of Reparative Return (2013). He is co-editor of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (2020) and has also published essays in journals such as GLQ, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, QED: A Journal of LGBTQ Worldmaking, and Postcolonial Studies.
Links:
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/pinkwashing/
https://www.deanspade.net/projects/pinkwashing-exposed/

Image of Die-in protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli pinkwashing. Photo by TMagen; licensed for public use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkwashing_%28LGBT%29#/media/File%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%A4%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%94_%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%93%D7%94_2.jpg

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