Queer Palestinians & The Power of Pinkwashing

Are “Queers for Palestine” really like “Chickens for KFC”? No, but understanding intersectional justice can be hard, and sharing memes is easy. Joined by Moe Dabbagh, a gay Palestinian American with family currently in Gaza, we Venn diagram gay liberation and Palestinian liberation. They’re less at odds with each other than you’d think. Gal Gadot makes a cameo.

Read Sarah Schulman’s op-ed on pinkwashing here (nytimes.com/2011/11/23/opinion/pinkwashing-and…).

Thank you to Moe Dabbagh for joining me. Find Moe here (instagram.com/moemoefuku/?hl=en).

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