Re-reading PInkwashing and Palestinian Queer BDS: Palestinian sexual liberation organizing and decolonization

• In Event: Encountering Zionism: From Academia to Queer Activism and BDS

Abstract

Haneen Maikey is a Palestinian queer community organizer who has been part of the local LGBT and queer organizing in Palestine since 2001. Haneen is the co founder and the director of the LGBTQ local grassroots organization "alQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society." She is also the co-founder of Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (PQBDS), an independent activists group working to promote BDS and anti-pinkwashing actions and campaigns among international queer communities. Haneen, is the author of “The History and Contemporary State of Palestinian Sexual Liberation Struggle" (The Case for Sanctions Against Israel, Edited by Lim A., 2012)

Author

• Haneen Maikey, Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (Palestine)