WORKSHOP WITH QUEERS IN PALESTINE: PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION THROUGH A QUEER LENS
WORKSHOP WITH QUEERS IN PALESTINE: PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION THROUGH A QUEER LENS
BRAGA: July 29 at 7.00pm
PORTO: July 30 at 7.00pm
MANDATORY REGISTRATION WITH LIMITED VACANCIES (you can find the registration form in the bio)
With MARIA SHAMS, Palestinian community organizer, interdisciplinary artist and co-founder of Queers in Palestine collective. @queersinpalestine
DURATION: ~1 hour & 45 minutes (including 30 minutes for questions)
LANGUAGE: English
The event will raise funds for grassroots support and mutual aid to Gaza.
Palestine, the pulse of global liberation, is enduring a systematic campaign of elimination by the Zionist settler-colonial state, sustained by imperial powers and global racial capitalism. In Gaza, the mass killing of Palestinians, enforced starvation, and the targeted destruction of infrastructure are not tragic byproducts of war, they are strategic tools of ethnic cleansing. All that is the continuation of over 75 years of Zionist genocidal colonization.
This colonial violence is an extension of the same structures that police, displace, and disappear queer, Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities worldwide. The Israeli settler project is not separate from the systems that criminalize migrants, exploit workers, militarize borders, fund prisons, and surveil trans bodies, it is entangled with them. Solidarity must be unapologetically material, intersectional, and rooted in liberation.
During the workshop and through a queer, feminist, abolitionist, and anti-imperialist lens, we will trace the connections between militarism, surveillance, pinkwashing, and the global repression of resistance movements. We will interrogate how concepts like charity, peace, rights, and representation often reinforce the very hierarchies they claim to challenge.
We will discuss questions such as: what does decolonial solidarity with Palestine looks like? how do we reject the colonial and liberal frameworks that strip struggle of its political power? how do we organize not for reform, but for the end of settler colonialism and racial capitalism?
Join us on 29th & 30th of July for the Workshop with Queers in Palestine in Braga & Porto
