Quand nos luttes sont instrumentalisées. S’il y’a une chose qui m’a toujours agacée, c’est bien le sentiment qu’on me confisque ma voix. Etant lesbienne, je subis la double peine d’être invisible en tant que femme dans la société, et dans la communauté "LGBT" (ou plus honnêtement, "GGGG"). Je dispose déjà de peu de temps de parole. J’ai donc énormément de mal avec la récupération des luttes, notamment celles qui me concernent directement, à savoir les "Droits LGBT" et le féminisme. Cela peut prendre plusieurs formes, comme la promotion du mariage à des fins économiques, mais aussi impérialistes et colonialistes. Qu’est ce que le pinkwashing? "Soutenir la Palestine = Soutenir l’oppression des gays Soutenir Israel = Soutenir une véritable démocratie" Cette stratégie, qui porte le nom de hasbara (ou "explication"), a été reconnue par Israël lui-même. (1) (2) (3) En citation dans l’article, Aeyal Gross, professeur de droit à Tel-Aviv affirme que "les droits LGBT sont essentiellement devenus un outil de communication".
-JanisBing. Eight questions Palestinian queers are tired of hearing. You might think that the main goal of a group of queer activists in Palestine like us in Al-Qaws should be the seemingly endless task of dismantling sexual and gender hierarchy in one’s own society. It is. But you might think otherwise, judging from the repetitive questions we get during our lectures and events, or from inquiries we receive from media and other international organizations. We intend to end this once and for all. Educating people about their own privilege is not our burden. But before we announce our formal retirement from this task, here are the eight most frequent questions we get, and their definitive answers. 1. Doesn’t Israel provide Palestinian queers with a safe haven?
Of course it does: the apartheid wall has sparkly pink doors lining it, ready to admit those who strike a fabulous pose. But seriously: “Israel” creates refugees; it does not shelter refugees. If some people manage to cross the wall and end up in Tel Aviv, they are considered “illegal.” 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts both LGBTIQ and Anti-Occupation Activism. By: Jasbir K. Puar Israeli democracy, through its promotion of LGBT rights, offers golden handcuffs—a beautiful gift that comes with control—to Israeli queers. At a lecture in Tel Aviv at the Women’s Peace Coalition, I heard the strain in the voices of queer Israeli activists who are chafing under Israeli’s progressive gay rights record.
One activist stated: “Apparently we have won all our rights and it’s like we should be grateful and keep silent about the injustices of the Occupation. More specifically in terms of Palestinian queers, the LGBT rights project itself relies on the impossibility/absence/non-recognition of a proper Palestinian queer subject except within the purview of the Israeli state itself.
Golden handcuffs limit the resistance of gay Israeli citizens benefiting the most directly from legal and cultural forms of sexual freedom; the trade off of freedom for suppression is even more complex for Palestinians living in Israel. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Photo credit: Robert Chang. Pinkwashing. Posts Tagged ‘pinkwashing’ PWI Campaign Updates 2 comments Dean Spade/ Gina Dent/ Haneen Maikey/ Lynn Darwich/ pinkwashing/ Public panels/ Queer BDS/ Queer Visions/ Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine/ SEXUAL DISCOURSES IN THE ZIONIST PROJECT/ Tamsila Tauqir/ WSF “Sexual Discourses in the Zionist Project: Queer Politics and Liberation” is 1 of 2 public panels organized by Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine. Held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from November 28 to December 1, 2012, the World Social Forum: Free Palestine brought...Read more PWI Campaign Updates 0 comment BDS/ pinkwashing/ PQBDS/ Queer/ Queer BDS/ Queer Visions/ Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine/ World Social Forum/ WSF Introduction This week, the World Social Forum: Free Palestine to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from November 28 to December 1, 2012 will bring together activists from around the world organizing for justice in Palestine.
No Pinkwashing - Home. Us and Them: On Helpless Women and Orientalist Imagery | Frustrated Arab. The argument then was, and has always been, that... - Exiledsoul. Channelling Efunsetan, Ahebi, Alaba Ida, Nzinga... - To illustrate, Kendall found that the notion of... D’où vient le mythe selon lequel les Noirs africains et antillais seraient forcément toujours hétéros ? – Partie 1 | CHRONIK D'UN NÈGRE INVERTI.
"Je crois et j’espère que les nègres étaient exempts de cette maladie morale dans leur propre pays". Cette citation d’Edward Gibbon, historien britannique du 18e siècle, tiré de son célèbre ouvrage Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1781), résume à elle seule la pensée coloniale qui a ancré l’idée d’une impossibilité pour des Africains noirs d’avoir des relations de même sexe. Il est important d’historiciser ce postulat colonial transformé en cliché contemporain, qui dans un contexte post colonial, peut être repris, entre autres, par des Noirs antillais comme africains, convaincus que l’homosexualité comme mode de vie de couple, ou carrément les pratiques de même sexe en tant que telles, ont été "importées par les Blancs" dans leurs pays respectifs.
Cette conviction tient lieu de défense identitaire compréhensible, face à un impérialisme culturel occidental qui entend définir le Vrai, le Bien, et surtout, le Progrès. Donc : The People's Record, Going beyond the Western gender binary -... Sarkozy, les talibans, et le vernis à ongles. On fait mine de découvrir le "storytelling" en France, depuis que l'universitaire Christian Salmon a publié un livre sur le sujet.
La technique, ancienne mais développée à l'échelle industrielle par les communicants de Tony Blair dans les années 90, consiste à réduire toute communication politique à des "histoires", scénarisées comme des récits de fiction. Salmon donne une illustration particulièrement brillante de cette technique de propagande, dans Le Monde de ce week-end. Il rappelle que dans sa dernière émission, Sarkozy a justifié l'envoi de troupes en Afghanistan par l'impossibilité de dialoguer "avec des gens qui ont amputé d'une main une femme parce qu'elle avait mis du vernis à ongles". D'où vient cette accusation contre les Talibans, dont Salmon a aussi retrouvé la trace dans les argumentaires des gouvernements américain et britannique ? Apparemment, d'un rapport d'Amnesty International de 1997, dans lequel elle figure...au conditionnel, révèle Salmon.
Abonnez-vous ! Mourir pour la liberté (celle des femmes en particulier) en Afghanistan. Dix soldats français ont trouvé la mort en Afghanistan lors d’une embuscade tendue par les talibans. Ce dramatique incident devrait susciter, dans les semaines qui viennent, un débat sur la présence de la France dans ce pays dans le cadre d’une mission de l’Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique nord (OTAN). En avril dernier, le président Nicolas Sarkozy avait annoncé l’envoi de plusieurs centaines de soldats supplémentaires. Cette décision s’était faite sans aucun débat sérieux, comme je l’avais rappelé à l’époque (« Nicolas Sarkozy, l’Afghanistan et l’universalisme européen »). Dans les discours des responsables français, on voit resurgir deux explications à cette présence : en nous battant là-bas, c’est la liberté en France que nous défendrions ; d’autre part, les femmes afghanes opprimées ont besoin de nous.
Désormais, l’Afghanistan remplace l’Irak dans le discours américain. D’autre part, M. . « L’histoire circule sur Internet depuis des années dans d’innombrables versions. ÉGALITÉ :: Le pinkwashing, cache-sexe de l’occupation. 'Brand Israel' and the art of pinkwashing. (Image: prettyqueer) On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 I published an op-ed in the NY Times, (Israel and ‘Pinkwashing’). This 900 word piece attempted to contextualize Pinkwashing. Here is a more detailed documentary history of Brand Israel, Israel’s campaign to re-brand itself in the minds of the world, as well as the development of pinkwashing as a funded, explicit and deliberate marketing project within Brand Israel. According to the Jewish Daily Forward, in 2005 The Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Prime Minister’s Office and the Finance Ministry concluded three years of consultation with American marketing executives and launched “Brand Israel,” a campaign to “re-brand” the country’s image to appear “relevant and modern” instead of militaristic and religious.
“Americans don’t see Israel as being like the US,” explained David Sable, CEA and vice president of Wunderman, a division of Young and Rubicam that conducted extensive and costly branding research for Israel at no charge. Yet… Etc. 1. ‘Pinkwashing’ and Israel’s Use of Gays as a Messaging Tool. Foreign Ministry promoting Gay Israel. Israel’s “pinkwash” makes cynical use of gays & gay rights. Israel’s latest hasbara schtick falls flat in days A couple of days ago, a Youtube video of some guy calling himself Mark popped up. Mark claimed to be an American gay rights activist who decided to broaden his horizons and, going all hog, decided to join the Gaza flotilla, representing the gay rights group of which he is a member.
He sent an email to the flotilla organizers, but – alas! – after waiting for quite a while, received a negative reply. Upon which Mark experienced a Road to Damascus moment, the scales fell from his eyes, and he saw the bright, shining light of truth: The flotilla is organized by Hamas-supporting Islamists, all of whom are good friends with Ismail Hanyieh. We are, of course, dealing with a professional hasbara flick. “Mark” refrains from showing us the bomb he pretends to hold, namely the mail he purportedly received from the flotilla organizers. I don’t have much of a problem with Gershon. Then again, who cares? Israeli actor in anti-Gaza Flotilla pinkwashing video identified. The disillusioned “gay activist” called “Marc” who appeared in a YouTube video condemning the Gaza Freedom Flotilla for alleged homophobia, that was tweeted by the Israeli Government Press Office, has been identified as an Israeli called Omer Gershon. This definitely proves that the video is either a hoax or a piece of propaganda designed to discredit the flotilla and use a mask of concern for gay rights to pinkwash Israel and justify the persecution of Palestinians in Gaza.
Last night The Electronic Intifada confirmed that one of the first people to tweet the video was Guy Seemann, a staffer in the office of the Israeli prime minister. The following images clearly identify Gershon by his face and tattoos. Gershon, as an Israeli, could not possibly have been so naive as “Marc” claimed to be in the video about either the flotilla or the situation in Gaza. Gershon has been profiled in leading Israeli publications such as Haaretz, Maariv and Ynet (here and here). Postscript. Homosexuality punishable by death in Uganda because of Christianity. The LGBT struggle in Lebanon. Graffiti on a wall in Beirut (Frankie Cook | SW) HOW, WHEN and why did HELEM or the LGBT movement in Lebanon emerge? HELEM STARTED around 2001-2003. Before that there was something called Club FREE, which focused on socializing amongst LGBT people.
Then people got together to talk about doing political things. Several activists from different backgrounds came together to form HELEM. There were several reasons why HELEM was formed. Aside from this obvious reason, there were several other factors that led to the development of HELEM. To find out more information about HELEM, visit their Web site. Another issue that was part of the forming of HELEM was the beginning of interference among European LGBT groups into the rights of LGBT Lebanese, attempting to speak for them. We feel that a lot of this interference had to do with what was going on in this region, that it was justification for U.S. and UN intervention.
WHAT IS HELEM fighting for? HELEM IS a membership organization. World Pride London 2012 - No Pride in Israeli Apartheid - Gay Pride. Open Forum: Queer Liberationist or Gay Assimilationist? There are two opposing political viewpoints when it comes to advocacy and than of course there are a variety of more moderate middleground opinions that fall in between the Queer Liberationists and Gay Assimilationist camps. Gay Assimilationists - This ideology is to make gay/lesbian people seem like average, normal everyday citizens in the eyes of the general public.
They want to make the case that gay families deserve equal rights and recognition and they want what everyone else wants: a house with a white picket fence and 2.5 kids. Some Gay Assimilationists are not inclusive of Bisexuals or Transgender people because they feel these groups hurt the gay rights movement. This is not the case for all Assimilationists and many seek to include all LGBT people and create a sense of assimilation into the general society. Queer Liberationists - This camp of political theory views gender and sexuality in non-conformist ways. These are two diametrically opposed political camps. Fighting to Fight: Questioning the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Battle. Editors' Note: Guest blogger Gabrielle Korn is a writer, activist, and artist. She is the Editorial Assistant of On The Issues Magazine, as well as a coordinator of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and an organizer of the New York City Dyke March.
She lives in Queens. On September 20, 2011, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- the law barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military -- will officially be repealed. Created by President Clinton in 1993 as a compromise between the existing ban on homosexuals in the military and his campaign promises to allow anyone to serve, regardless of sexual identity, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," or simply DADT, had been seen by gay rights activists and allies as forcing gays and lesbians in the military back into the closet. And permission to serve openly in the military during wars that are increasingly opposed by Americans.
In this light, gay rights appear to be granted when they fulfill a larger purpose for the government.