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The Ability to Live: What Trump’s Health Cuts Mean for People with Disabilities
My latest collaboration on disability justice: No Body Is Disposable
I’m so excited to share this new collaboration with Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern of Sins Invalid and Hope Dector of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, No Body Is Disposable: A Disability Justice Video Series.
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My Latest Writing on Pinkwashing: The Right Wing Is Leveraging Trans Issues to Promote Militarism
I wrote this article on the dangerous ways the right is using trans people to promote right-wing security and military agendas alongside its violent backlash against trans people. Among these tactics is the Israeli government’s “Brand Israel” campaign developed over a decade ago to promote a positive public image of Israel, foment anti-Muslim racism, and distract from Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine and apartheid regime.
Excerpt: “[T]he use of a thin LGBT inclusion politics to make the Israeli or US military appear progressive is becoming a losing strategy. Resistance to pinkwashing is rising, and each controversy exposes new communities to the critique of this propaganda. A growing number of Jews in the US, especially young people, are becoming critical of Israel. The Movement for Black Lives has made its solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation clear, helping many people in the US see the connections between US and Israeli racism and state violence. Cross-movement organizing between Indigenous people in North America, including Water Protectors, and Palestine liberation activists is helping people see the links between US and Israel as settler-colonialism.”
Resist Pinkwashing in Seattle NOW!
Shockingly, shamefully, on April 5, the Seattle LGBTQ Commission is sponsoring an event organized by the zionist hate group StandWithUs that will feature a discussion with a trans IDF officer. You may recall that in 2012 we had a huge controversy in Seattle about a different StandWithUs and A Wider Bridge sponsored pinkwashing event with the same Commission. Below is the letter I have just sent to the Commissioners, urging them to cancel. I encourage you to write to them. Their email addresses are not publicly posted by you can send correspondence to the City staffer who coordinates the Commission, Erika.Pablo@seattle.gov.
Read my initial letter, the reply from the Seattle LGBTQ Commission, and my follow-up response below.
Reframing Faculty Criticisms of Student Activism
I wrote “Reframing Faculty Criticisms of Student Activism” in The Chronicle of Higher Education because I kept hearing the same kinds of criticisms of student activists over and over during the last few years. I hope it helps faculty reconsider some of the automatic responses to student activism that emerge.
When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability
Kessler Lecture Video and New Interview
So many thanks to everyone at CLAGS for a wonderful experience giving the Kessler Lecture this year. The unedited video is below, and is a version edited by the phenomenal Hope Dector that shows the slides more clearly is available here.
Also, many thanks to Sarah Lazare who recently interviewed me for AlterNet about my thoughts on how we might proceed in the current political moment.