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This blog has been inactive but Just to let everyone know i support the palestinian resistance unequivocally with my entire heart. may they win whatever it takes!

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Trans Day of Action, 2014, Christopher Street Pier. Featuring International Action Center [left] and Sylvia Rivera Law Project [right]. Trans Day of Action is hosted by The Audre Lorde Project.

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Revisiting this I have absolutely NO idea why i listed this as 2014. It looks earlier in the 2000s, TDOA started in 2005. Its likely from an issue of the workers world which is archived here im not on my computer yet though so i cant look through it properly... heres the coverage on the 2005 march though

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Palestine Masterlist 

Introduction to Palestine: 

Decolonize Palestine:

Palestine 101

Rainbow washing 

Frequently asked questions 

Myths 

IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding):

Quick Facts - The Palestinian Nakba 

The Nakba and Palestinian Refugees 

The Gaza Strip

The Palestinian catastrophe (Al-Nakba)

Al-Nakba (documentary)

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (book)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (book)

Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? (Article)

The Nakba did not start or end in 1948 (Article)

Donations and charities: 

Al-Shabaka

Electronic Intifada 

Adalah Justice Project 

IMEU Fundraiser 

Medical Aid for Palestinians 

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund 

Addameer

Muslim Aid

Palestine Red Crescent

Gaza Mutual Aid Patreon

Books:

A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine

The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge

Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948

Captive Revolution - Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948

The Battle for Justice in Palestine Paperback

Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom

Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre

The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

A Land Without a People: Israel, Transfer, and the Palestinians 1949-1996

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples

Where Now for Palestine?: The Demise of the Two-State Solution

Terrorist Assemblages - Homonationalism in Queer Times

Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East

The one-state solution: A breakthrough for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians

The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine

Ten myths about Israel

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition

Israel and its Palestinian Citizens - Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State

Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Palestinian Culture:

Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture

Palestinian Costume

Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution

Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora

Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)

The Palestinian Table (Authentic Palestinian Recipes)

Falastin: A Cookbook

Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen

Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions

Palestinian Culture before the Nakba

Tatreez & Tea (Website)

The Traditional Clothing of Palestine

The Palestinian thobe: A creative expression of national identity

Embroidering Identities:A Century of Palestinian Clothing

Palestine Traditional Costumes

Palestine Family 

Palestinian Costume

Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, v5: Volume 5: Central and Southwest Asia

Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure

Documentaries, Films, and Video Essays:

Jenin, Jenin

Born in Gaza

GAZA 

Wedding in Galilee 

Omar

5 Broken Cameras

OBAIDA

Indigeneity, Indigenous Liberation, and Settler Colonialism (not entirely about Palestine, but an important watch for indigenous struggles worldwide - including Palestine)

Edward Said - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Palestine Remix: 

AL NAKBA

Gaza Lives On

Gaza we are coming

Lost cities of Palestine 

Stories from the Intifada 

Last Shepherds of the Valley

Voices from Gaza

Muhammad Smiry

Najla Shawa

Nour Naim

Wael Al dahdouh

Motaz Azaiza

Ghassan Abu Sitta

Refaat Alareer

Plestia Alaqad

Bisan Owda

Ebrahem Ateef

Mohammed Zaanoun

Doaa Mohammad

Hind Khoudary

Palestinian Voices, Organizations, and News 

Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS)

Defense for Children in Palestine

Palestine Legal 

Palestine Action

Palestine Action US

United Nations relief and works for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA)

National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

Times of Gaza

Middle East Eye

Middle East Monitor

Mohammed El-Kurd

Muna El-Kurd 

Electronic Intifada 

Dr. Yara Hawari (suspended on X 10/25/2023)

Mariam Barghouti

Omar Ghraieb

Steven Salaita

Noura Erakat

The Palestinian Museum N.G.

Palestine Museum US

Artists for Palestine UK 

Eye on Palestine (suspended on Instagram 10/25/2023)

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Since the trans flag won, here’s my Palestinian trans flag using traditional Tatreez borders along with a design of two roosters from Hebron. This is for Trans Palestinians specifically.

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"Today there are some who will try to separate Aswat [queer feminist Palestinian movement] from the Palestinian struggle and only relate to you on the basis of a universal sexual identity. But those who support your self-determination will not forget that you are linguistically translating your culture, your lives and your self-identities and your struggle to make it easier for those of use who are not fluent in Arabic to understand. But that does not mean that identities like lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, transsexual, intersexual have one universal meaning in all places, for all peoples, for all cultures, or in all historical periods.

Colonialism and imperialism have always tried to foment conflicts in order to divide and conquer. In the case of Palestinians, as Helem [Lebanese LGBT group] concluded, “[T]he rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders should not be placed in competition with the long struggle of the Palestinian people, including Palestinian LGBT people, for self-determination, for the right to return to their homes, and the struggle against apartheid and the occupation of their lands.”

Today we see how the imperialists—the U.S. to Israelis—use the experiences of women, of gays, of transgenders as pretexts for imperialist war. The white supremacist ideology replaces the colonial claim of “bringing civilization,” into imperialist claims that they are “bringing democracy.” But Washington and Tel Aviv have brought ruthless reactionary occupations to the Middle East.

Today the U.S. has made anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-woman rape and humiliation part of its science of torture and repression from the U.S. torture camp in imperialist-occupied Guantánamo, Cuba, to Abu Ghraib."

Leslie Feinberg on Pink-washing and rainbow imperialism in hir visit to occupied Palestine through ASWAT's invitation. 2007.

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This is the person credited with coining the modern word transgender Btw.

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Marsha P. Johnson was a psychiatric abuse survivor. In Pay it No Mind, friend Bob Kohler says

"She would go down christopher street, and be picked up midway... they would take her away for about two-three months, and they would put an implant in her spine, thorazine i think it was, that would calm her down, and she would come back, and be a zombie for about a month, and then she would go back to being old Marsha"

We must not erase this aspect of her life, and its important to celebrate marsha as a Black Mad Street Transvestite, not whatever sanitized version of her life the mainstream wants to celebrate. The parts of Marsha that made her such a celebrated and mythologized part of NYC gay and trans life is the same thing that got her institutionalized, a victim of state violence. Marsha was the patron saint of Christopher street, and she was also a Mad, Black, Street Transvesite, and many of the people who swear they owe their protection to her did not fight for her, all of her, the way she did for them.

Make sure you do

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARSHA P. JOHNSON.

On Aug 24, 1945, Marsha P. Johnson was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, before taking her leadership role the first LGBT pride: a battle against the NYPD's 6th precinct at Stonewall. She frequently returned home to NJ to visit her family in Elizabeth to observe holidays. Generously, she brought trinkets for her nieces and nephews, and flowers for her momma; during her commute, she would even invite wayward people to join her for a hot meal with her family. Elizabeth, NJ, was where Marsha began wearing dresses at age 5, but stopped after homophobic & sexual harassment, and she left her Jersey home at age 17 with $15 in her pocket, to New York's Greenwich Village. There, she became radicalized, stating, "We want to see all gay people have a chance at equal rights as straight people in America. We believe in picking up a gun & starting a revolution if necessary." During the Stonewall Uprising, she famously climbed a lamppost and dropped a heavy object onto a police cruiser window, shattering it. That's not all she shattered. Assigned male at birth, Ms. Johnson made it a point to dress in ways that disrupted the masculine/ feminine binary, by highlighting both simultaneously. Marsha was the product of the Great Migration of the 1920s, with parents coming from S Carolina & VA during a time of crop failure & anti-Black lynching in the South. Father worked on a General Motors assembly line in Linden & was able to support his family. So by fleeing NJ to Greenwich Village, Marsha was following a family tradition of exodus to freedom and opportunity. And like her father, Marsha provided for people. She co-founded STAR. "Their first house was in the back of an abandoned truck in Greenwich Village. Nearly 24 young people called the truck home; Marsha hustled every night to feed them, getting arrested over 100x due to the illegality of drag & sex work".

Retrieved from Peoples History NJ , A fantastic account which you should follow immediately.

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From Leslie Feinberg's FBI file. 1974

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Emi Koyama's "The Transfeminist Manifesto,"

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Transexual Menace Rosa von Praunheim, 1996

Transexual Menace takes its title from the name of "the most exciting political action group in the USA"— transgender people who are defining themselves, demanding their legal rights, and fighting for medical care and against job discrimination. Transexual Menace gives viewers remarkable insight into the home and work lives of transsexuals from many cultures and countries, including FTMs and those with families and children.

you can watch it here for free

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"Adult transsexualism is such a malignant condition (in the sense of irreversibility) that we obviously must apply our beliefs as if they were proven fact. (Stoller, 1970, p. 279) ... Fortunately, [it] may be treatable and reversible in the small child ... treatment must be immediately instituted so that a more normal gender identity can be developed. (Stoller, 1969, p. 140)"

If trans identity could not be cured, clinicians and researchers debated whether it could be prevented by intervening in childhood. The above quotes represent the perspectives of mental health research clinicians who sought to prevent adult trans identification with childhood interventions. These professionals described adult trans identity as a pathological outcome. To this end, interventions such as the Feminine Boy Project sought to prevent gender expressions in children which did not conform to societal norms (R. Green, 1987). This NIMH-funded study lasting over a decade used behavior modification and talk therapy to discourage feminine behaviors in boys, which researchers termed “the Sissy Boy Syndrome” (R. Green, 1987) [...] An endocrinologist at the First International Symposium on Gender Identity told other researchers: “these people are ill, they have a disease, they need to be helped,” but what “we want to do is treat the cause” (EEF, 1969c, pt. 2). He thought transsexualism was likely caused by hormonal exposure in the intrauterine period; once screening of an infant's sex in utero became available, injections of androgens for male fetuses and anti-androgens for female fetuses could be given to “divide our population into real males and real females.” The process, he said, would be the same as giving “a pregnant woman iron or folic acid to prevent her anemia”

:)

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literally in tears right now

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Alexander John "Bear" Goodrum 1960-2002 Alexander was the creator, founder, and director of TGNet Arizona a grassroots transgender advocacy and resource organization based in Arizona. Goodrum was a bisexual, disabled, African-American, transgender man who worked extensively within those communities.  A native of Chicago, Illinois, Alexander had been involved as an activist in LGBT organizing and social justice issues since the 1980s. In addition to the TGNet Arizona web site, he published numerous articles and papers, and is perhaps best known for his widely published paper, Gender Identity 101: A Transgender Primer. (source)

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here is a pdf of Achim Rohde's paper, 'Gays, Cross-Dressers, and Emos: Nonnormative Maculinities in Militarised Iraq'. LINK

Rohde describes how queer and trans subcultures appeared and even flourished in late Ba'athist Iraq in spite of external pressures, and how the NATO invasion of 2001-2003 wiped away these subcultures and laid the foundations for more organised forms of violent queer-antagonism that have become more visible and socially determinative in the years since the fall of the Ba'ath government.

please read critically - i don't agree with the easy dichotomy between violence against women and anti-queer violence that sometimes seems to appear, or Rohde's classification of 'nonnormative masculinities' (aka, queer AMAB people), but it's nonetheless a very useful resource

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i do want to highlight one part of this actually

Rohde cites the fact that in the 90s, you could buy feminising hormones over the counter in some pharmacies in southern iraq (no mention of masculinising hormones iirc but that is strictly outside the scope of the article because of aforementioned silly classification). this was ofc no longer possible following the NATO intervention due to supply chain disruption and mass impoverishment

whilst many people are familiar with the contemporary hostility of western powers towards trans cultures in their own borders, what this makes clear is that the imperial strategies of these powers have consistently strangled any attempt at forging cultures of alternative gender in their (neo)colonies too

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@staff Yall censoring a word that describes decades of latine trans communities is not lost on me

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I think this may be the case cause ive never seen the term used as anything other then a derogatory term/insult. Im latin and i can say that while probably the term has somthing more to it then just a "queer" like word [aka used as a slur/insult now turned into a proper non degrading term] its been used as anything but a nice word

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I get this entirely and I in no way want to dismiss the harm this word has done. However it is legitimately a self identifier for many trans/gnc communities and people in LatAm, particularly Argentina, Peru and Brazil come to mind. There are also more names for similar communities, and im not here to say that all trans communities in latam are "travesti" or say that all travesti communities are the same. but the term has a legitimate very important place in trans history and identity in that region. the negative connotation is likely why its censored, but its something that should be pushed back on imo.

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Well im in no way oware of the words past as again as ive stated ive only heard it from ppl who are in no way not even soportive of the lgbtq+ and just use it as in a derogatory way [might i add that what i understood the word travesti and by extencion trapito met for the longest time was super transphobic in what kind of trans ppl it referd to], but ill take ur word for it in that the word has a lot of genunly non-negative trans history as going of ur blog and posts its clear you know more about the subject then me,thanks for imforming me and bringing this issue up in the first place

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no problem and btw i appreciate ur reblog a lot! sorry if i came off like i didnt, just wanted to clarify some context on the word. i deffo study a lot of trans history but im not Latin American so there will always be a blindspot for me in this regard so i truely appreciate ur perspective/addition a lot

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@staff Yall censoring a word that describes decades of latine trans communities is not lost on me

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I think this may be the case cause ive never seen the term used as anything other then a derogatory term/insult. Im latin and i can say that while probably the term has somthing more to it then just a "queer" like word [aka used as a slur/insult now turned into a proper non degrading term] its been used as anything but a nice word

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I get this entirely and I in no way want to dismiss the harm this word has done. However it is legitimately a self identifier for many trans/gnc communities and people in LatAm, particularly Argentina, Peru and Brazil come to mind. There are also more names for similar communities, and im not here to say that all trans communities in latam are "travesti" or say that all travesti communities are the same. but the term has a legitimate very important place in trans history and identity in that region. the negative connotation is likely why its censored, but its something that should be pushed back on imo.