Welcome to Aswat
Palestinian Lesbian Women
We are a group of Palestinian Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transexuals, Questioning, Intersex and Queers.
Together we unearthed the common grounds between us and were determined to provide an opportunity for all Arab LBTQI to promote self-empowerment, provide support, influence social upbringing and change public opinion about the concepts of sexuality, sexual orientation, gender and homosexuality and our sociopolitical rights as a minority group with different sexual and gender identities.
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Aswat - Palestinian Gay Women and Isha L-Isha – Haifa Feminist center invite you to an open discussion with Jasbir Puar on Homonationalism, Sunday, the 15th of January 2012 at 19:00
In asking ‘How do queer Palestinian womyn ‘queer’ Palestinian identity”, the present research focuses on the various forms of traditional, narrative, and creative resistance practices of Palestinian womyn whochallenge the following three narratives: 1) the national narrative which tags ‘queer’ as ‘Other’ and which posits the national movement at the top of the hierarchy of struggles; 2) the colonial narrative which is sustained by the Israeli public relations campaigns aiming to portray Israel as a modern, progressive, safe gay haven for queers, in opposition to a Palestine and Arab World which are said to be integrally homophobic, barbaric, regressive, etc. in an attempt to ‘pinkwash’ the occupation; and 3) the neocolonial narrative in which Western and Israeli Jewish queer movements reproduce colonial dynamics in their attempt to ‘save’ Palestinian queers who are deemed to be powerless, voiceless victims in need of saving.
click here >>The subject of lesbianism has rarely been addressed in the Arab world on the assumption that it is not a priority, or that 'there are no lesbians in our culture', or that some women 'become' lesbians due to some negative experiences or imposed sexual segregation, thus conveying an implicit message that lesbians can or should be heteronormalized...
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