Queer Perspectives https://wri-irg.org/en en Lessons from the Trans Ban in the US https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2020/lessons-trans-ban-us <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--42085.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="42085" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-image--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image.html.twig * field--expert--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-image.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--node--field-image.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-image.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <picture> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_desktop/public/2020-05/screenshot_2020-05-08_02.34.53.png?itok=FA1hOgWv 1x" media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" type="image/png"/> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2020-05/screenshot_2020-05-08_02.34.53.png?itok=1x6Vu3v8 1x" type="image/png"/> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2020-05/screenshot_2020-05-08_02.34.53.png?itok=1x6Vu3v8" alt="A poster saying &quot;Trans liberation, not more US invasion&quot; and &quot;No pride in war&quot;" title="Poster by Micah Bazant. Source: War Resister League website" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> </picture> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <div class="caption">Poster by Micah Bazant. Source: War Resister League website</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 08 May 2020</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--dynamic-twig-field:node-author-name-twig---custom.html.twig * field--default--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--default--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig--story.html.twig * field--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-dynamic-twig-fieldnode-author-name-twig field--type-ds field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Author(s)</div> <div class="field--item"> <span>Omar Zahzah et Tory Smith</span> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Binary gender, white supremacy, heteronormativity and heteropatriarchy are the inevitable outgrowths of capitalism and colonization. For these reasons, it is a mistake to look at inclusion in the military as a milestone of what our movements can achieve. Despite this, the state will often try to mask its inherent role in perpetuating oppression by co-opting the language of resistance movements. Our role as truly liberation-oriented organizers must be to recognize this co-optation as nothing less than a shameless strategy of power; so long as the elites can fragment our organizing efforts by making us divert our radical energies towards liberalizing the killing apparatuses of the state, our ability to bring about a just social order will be forever compromised. </p> <p>In the US Context, we’ve seen the military try and remake our own history over and over again. In 1948, the US military integrated both women and African Americans into the standing forces. At the time, there was considerable objection within the military to desegregation, but as the civil rights and feminist movement won powerful victories in the rest of the country, the Pentagon began to celebrate that early history, taking hard fought people’s movement struggles as their own. More recently in 2010, with the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the US military’s policy to ban the service of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual members, the US military again tried to paint themselves as a progressive institution, portraying the integration of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual soldiers as a victory for Gay Rights movement and that membership in the military could be used as a force for social good. Many US organizations fighting for LGBTQ liberation celebrated this victory as a milestone in a movement started by queer and trans people, in a gay bar called Stonewall in the US who stood against police brutality on their community. Then, in 2016, the Obama administration allowed openly Transgender Americans to be soldiers. But as rising fascism in the US swept Trump into power, right-wing transphobes pushed for a rollback of that policy. In July of 2017, Trump tweeted that he was planning on banning Transgender soldiers from the US military, followed shortly by policy putting that into effect. But for all of the tangible effects that these rollbacks and restrictions would have upon trans soldiers, we recognize the campaign surrounding this latest form of discrimination as ultimately working in the interests of a military trying to brand itself as a force for social good in spite of itself. The forces of state violence, the military, the prisons, the police, the border control, need to portray themselves as crucial to any future we might try to build, whereas as anti-militarist organizers we know the truth is the exact opposite. </p> <p>For even in places where the military could boast of a more “diverse” makeup, these stories are weaponized against the more “savage” regions and populations of the world, providing the cover to bomb, occupy, and oppress all those that Europe deemed as backwards, misogynistic, and at their core transphobic and resistant to coming into the “modern world” as the West sees it. The reality is, colonial-military campaigns throughout history have used the so-called “protection” of vulnerable segments of the population as justification for their crimes, often while continuing to deny those same populations their “rights” back home. Lila Abu-Lughod, for instance, writes of how 19th-century British colonial projects in South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) were justified by the logic of “saving” Asian women by the very same powerful men who opposed the women’s suffrage movements back home. Beth Richie and Chandra Talpade Mohanty both argue that so long as feminist efforts are geared towards supporting a more comprehensive military and prison industrial complex, they will in fact be sabotaging the ultimate liberation towards which all freedom movements need to be striving. Jasbir Puar has talked about how the military can use the language of queer liberation in order to strengthen its own ability to target and kill the latest enemies of the state: backwards "terrorists" who don't share "our" liberal/progressive values. The military and the state have only ever cared about global “justice” insofar as it can be twisted to support its own material gains, its power and supremacy over the rest of the world.</p> <p>As trans and queer organizers against Militarism in the US, the challenge of how to confront the trans ban is profound. We cannot support discrimination and bigotry against our trans siblings, but so long as we bolster or seek to "perfect" the military we are in fact supporting this injustice. Simply put, working for the interests of an institution that exists to plunder, terrorize and kill thousands, regardless of their gender and/or sexual identity, is automatically to support all forms of discrimination by way of the most state of the art technologies of violence and incapacitation. Trans rights do not begin and end within American borders. Trans people are in the US, as well as in occupied and colonized Palestine, Afghanistan,Iraq, Colombia, Haiti, Chad, and the Philippines, and they are all struggling against the military-industrial complex whose overturning is an inextricable part of truly seeing trans liberation in a global context. Trans people are part of the wider communities that they live in, and everywhere where militarism and state power rears its head, trans people are pitted against the military-industrial complex along with everyone else who is deemed disposable by those in power. For these reasons, we need to be suspicious of claims that military campaigns can ever be sources of trans liberation--even when such claims are made on behalf of trans people from militarily targeted countries. No military superpower acts for the genuine best interest of humanity; they work for their own gain, at the direct expense of all under their domination. There is no bomb that magically doesn’t kill trans people, just as bombing anyone in the name of their own liberation is impossible.</p> <p>Rather than putting our organizing energy into calling for the military to become (or remain) more "inclusive," we need to agitate against the military as the <strong>most</strong> exclusive disciplinary force of the globe, working to prop up the most repressive and reactionary regimes all over the world and supporting all forms of oppression so long as it props up state supremacy. The resources of our movements for trans liberation deserve to be placed toward the liberation of the most targeted members of our community. Trans liberation will only ever truly come with the abolition of the military-industrial complex and all of the borders and firepower that sustain it. We are here to dream bold dreams of liberation in even the most private of spaces, but we have to recognize the gains we make in access to the institutions that oppress so many of our siblings are detrimental to our movements. As anti-militarist organizers worldwide, we should be so cautious of the military trying to coopt movements for liberation and setting inclusion into the ranks as something to aspire to. <em>There can be no trans liberation without military abolition.</em></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-author-information--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--field-author-information--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--field-author-information.html.twig * field--default--field-author-information--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--field-author-information.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--field-author-information--story.html.twig * field--node--field-author-information.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-author-information.html.twig * field--entity-reference-revisions.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-author-information field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Author information</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'paragraph' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * paragraph--authors-and-bios--bio-only.html.twig * paragraph--authors-and-bios.html.twig * paragraph--bio-only.html.twig x paragraph.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/paragraphs/paragraph.html.twig' --> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--authors-and-bios paragraph--id--_43 paragraph--view-mode--bio-only"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-bio--bio-only.html.twig * field--paragraph--field-bio--authors-and-bios.html.twig * field--paragraph--field-bio.html.twig * field--paragraph--authors-and-bios.html.twig * field--field-bio.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-bio field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p><em><strong>Omar Zahzah </strong>is a writer, Palestine activist and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UCLA. Omar has been a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) since 2012, and is currently a member of Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine (GSJP) at UCLA and the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM).</em></p> <p><em><strong>Tory Smith </strong>is a non-binary organizer and researcher raised in the DC area. A student activist during the lead up to the Iraq and Afghan wars, Tory was a part of the student anti-war movement from 2003 onwards. Tory is now the national campaigner for the War Resisters League, and organizes in Philadelphia with Up Against the Law Legal Collective.</em></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/paragraphs/paragraph.html.twig' --> </div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-countries--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-countries--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-countries.html.twig * field--expert--field-countries--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-countries.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-countries--story.html.twig * field--node--field-countries.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-countries.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Countries</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/216" hreflang="en">United States of America</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-theme--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-theme.html.twig * field--expert--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-theme.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * 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</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Fri, 08 May 2020 01:35:22 +0000 cmoy 42085 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2020/lessons-trans-ban-us#comments Antimilitarists show their presence at PRIDE https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2017/antimilitarists-show-their-presence-pride <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--40814.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="40814" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-image--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image.html.twig * field--expert--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-image.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--node--field-image.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-image.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <picture> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_desktop/public/2017-07/noprideinwar.jpg?itok=qFSy3_qu 1x" media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" type="image/jpeg"/> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2017-07/noprideinwar.jpg?itok=0f_EJ5cS 1x" type="image/jpeg"/> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2017-07/noprideinwar.jpg?itok=0f_EJ5cS" alt="No Pride in War lead the London Pride march" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> </picture> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <div class="caption"></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 25 Jul 2017</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Antimilitarists have been making their presence felt at Pride marches around the world! In London, the NO PRIDE IN WAR group ended up leading the march, accompanied by the Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants bloc.</p> <p>In Tel Aviv in June, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pinkwash.il/?hc_ref=ARSDylmrq96tyMWaPTXIClzo1L5UCpPuFbGWcd_SusVWLFv4idf7M5qBWdKb66E2JBc">Pinkwash Israel</a> group blocked the Parade with signs reading ‘<a href="https://972mag.com/anti-occupation-lgbtq-activists-block-tel-aviv-pride-parade/127996/">There’s no pride in occupation</a>’, and for a few minutes the march came to a halt. Police and members of “Likud Pride” - the LGBTQ group affiliated with the ruling Likud party - shoved and shouted at the activists. Watch a video of the reaction to their protest <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mekomit/videos/1918882551691975/">here</a>. <a href="http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/">Pinkwashing Israel</a> and Palestinian queer activists had <a href="http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/portfolio/tlvpride17/#!prettyPhoto">called a boycott</a> of the march.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-countries--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-countries--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-countries.html.twig * field--expert--field-countries--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-countries.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-countries--story.html.twig * field--node--field-countries.html.twig * 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OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:59:36 +0000 HBrock 40814 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2017/antimilitarists-show-their-presence-pride#comments Exposing Israel’s ‘pinkwashing’ https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2015/exposing-israels-pinkwashing <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--25033.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="25033" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 14 Oct 2015</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By Toshio Meronek, first published on </span></span></span><em><a href="http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/exposing-israels-pinkwashing/">Waging Nonviolence</a>.</em></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"> </p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pinkwashing is the word activists use to describe Israel’s branding of itself as the gay oasis of the Middle East. It’s a government-supported public relations strategy, they say, designed to help us all forget about Israel’s occupation of Palestine.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These activists are part of a growing movement of anti-pinkwashers, committed to exposing Israel’s pro-gay messaging as cynical propaganda, while at the same time bringing more attention to what many have labeled as Israeli apartheid.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s a really strong current all over the globe” of queer Palestinian human rights activism, said 26-year-old organizer Selma Al-Aswad. “It’s a current that I didn’t feel in my early days of organizing Palestine solidarity work. That was an isolated experience, and I do not feel that isolation anymore.”</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">LGBTQ people in Palestine with groups like </span></span></span><a href="http://vimeo.com/86082213"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">al-Qaws</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> are actively trying to dispel the myth that Palestinian queers are interested in being “rescued” and integrated into Israeli society, and advocates for Palestinians around the world are forwarding the idea that gay tolerance, like allowing gays to openly serve in the country’s conscripted military, doesn’t excuse Israel’s human rights violations. Meanwhile, in Israel’s supposed gay mecca of Tel Aviv, </span></span></span><a href="http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/01/more-than-one-thousand-rally-in-tel-aviv-to-protest-recent-anti-lgbt-violence/"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">violence against queer people persists</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A queer Palestinian American from Seattle, Al-Aswad remembers when she became aware of pinkwashing. It was the early 2000s, and she started seeing “certain messages popping up around gay culture in Israel, juxtaposing this vibrant queer community in Israel against the backdrop of bleakness in Palestine.”</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The most difficult to stomach, for her, are the messages that tell a certain narrative seen in the film </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Invisible Men, </span></span></span></em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">which centers around conflicted love between gay Palestinians and Israelis. In the movie, Israel is depicted as a gay haven, while the West Bank is shown as being a dark, dangerous place for queer people. In the end, the invisible men of Palestine turn to Israel for salvation.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The state of Israel actually saves queer Palestinians from their own kind,” Al-Aswad said. “That’s the hardest stuff to watch.”</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And so, in 2012, at the film’s Seattle opening, Al-Aswad and her “fabulous queer crew, dressed in pink, with huge pink wigs, huge pink brushes,” stormed the theater to bring attention to what they saw as the pinkwashing present in the movie. Similar actions took place when it premiered in San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">June is Gay Pride month. For Natalie Kouri-Towe in Toronto this month brings an annual series of actions connecting queer struggles to the struggle in Palestine.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today’s Gay Pride celebrations have increasingly become another opportunity for big banks and liquor companies to advertise to gay consumers. For Kouri-Towe and others in Toronto’s </span></span></span><a href="http://queersagainstapartheid.org/"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Queers Against Israeli Apartheid</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, or QuAIA, anti-pinkwashing activism is particularly meaningful because it’s a chance to link Pride with its political origins. She points out how the original Pride march was actually a response to police violence against the gay community in New York City after the Stonewall riots in 1969. In Toronto, Pride marches formed in response to gay bathhouse raids during the 1980s, when, according to Kouri-Towe, “the cops raided the bathhouses, and the community took to the streets. None of that is part of [today’s] Pride Parade.”</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">QuAIA has tried many strategies over the years to bring more attention to the occupation. Several events have hailed the work of Simon Nkoli, a gay South African anti-apartheid activist who often linked queer and anti-apartheid struggles. (The chairperson of South Africa’s post-apartheid ruling party, the African National Congress, called the current situation in Palestine “far worse than Apartheid South Africa.”)</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> <div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_full&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a46ad283-7786-4973-8d10-27d8b70a5dc5" title="During the 2013 Tel Aviv Pride Parade, the anarcho-queer collective Mashpritzot held a die-in to protest Israeli pinkwashing. (Wikimedia Commons/TMagen) " class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/images/pinkwashing-Israel%20615x410.home.jpg?itok=8q7qfHNf 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/images/pinkwashing-Israel%20615x410.home.jpg?itok=8q7qfHNf" alt="" title="During the 2013 Tel Aviv Pride Parade, the anarcho-queer collective Mashpritzot held a die-in to protest Israeli pinkwashing. (Wikimedia Commons/TMagen) " typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /><!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> </span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"> </p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"> </p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">QuAIA has also denounced Israel’s work to promote Tel Aviv as a gay vacation destination. As part of the boycott, divestment and sanctions, or BDS, movement, QuAIA marched in a recent Gay Pride parade, calling for a boycott of tourism in Israel.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pitching QuAIA as a discriminatory, anti-Israel group, pro-Israeli lobbyists have pushed politicians to withhold public funding from LGBT organizations that allow QuAIA’s participation.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kouri-Towe’s favorite anti-pinkwashing action happened during Toronto Pride 2011. Conservative mayor Rob Ford made it clear, she explained, “that he would ensure that Pride would not receive funding if QuAIA marched. So QuAIA said, ‘We’re not going to be used as the pretense for your homophobia. If you cut funding for the parade, that’s all on you, because we’re not going to be used as the platform you use to justify this.” In response, the organization decided not to march.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We were really nervous about that move,” she said. “The response we got back was that it was a really good gesture of mutual responsibility around solidarity, and we still did a big event that year, with a banner drop in the Village in front of the subway that’s right next to the Parade.” The move received significant press coverage and increased QuAIA’s numbers.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Another well-known gay event held every June is the Frameline LGBT film festival in San Francisco. Advertising itself as the largest and longest-running LGBT cultural event in the world, the festival is sponsored in part by the Israeli consulate. A growing list of artists and filmmakers — including John Greyson, who was famously detained in Egypt for several months last year, author Alice Walker and former political prisoner Angela Davis — have either pulled their films or called for “discontinuing its financial relationship with the state of Israel.” So far, however, the festival’s leadership has refused to cut ties with the consulate. (In 2011, </span></span></span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/86363022/Israeli-Consul-General-and-Frameline"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">leaked emails</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> revealed a collaborative effort between Frameline, the Israeli consulate and programs within the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco to thwart protests.)</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kate Raphael has been organizing against pinkwashing as part of the majority-Jewish group </span></span></span><a href="http://www.quitpalestine.org/"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> in San Francisco since the early 2000s. In May, the group picketed Frameline’s press briefing.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It infuriates me that they’re allowing our identity to be co-opted,” she said. “I don’t know any other way to say it than if someone is going to speak in your name, and what they say is abhorrent to you, you just have no choice [but to fight back].”</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In another action, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism pulled all of the Israel-produced items off the shelves of a Trader Joe’s market.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We don’t worry so much about being transparent all the time — some people would say we try to be really opaque!” Raphael said. “But we feel that if people don’t understand something right away, that’s not such a bad thing.” The creative actions, she explained, “are just more fun for us,” and they combat member burnout.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are times when things get a life on the Internet because they’re flashy and interesting,” Raphael continued. An early BDS action she helped to plan that involved occupying a Starbucks in Berkeley, Calif., was soon replicated in places as far away as Beirut and Sydney.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At the same time, Raphael — who was once arrested and deported from Israel after filming clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli military — believes consistency is key to getting the movement to where it is today.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If we want Target to stop selling Soda Stream [a carbonated beverage maker made by an Israeli company that produces many of its products in the West Bank], we have to be out there [protesting] every week,” she said. “You can’t just have one flashy action every few months and expect to have an impact.”</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One of the most effective anti-pinkwashing actions took place during the spring in 2012, in response to a West Coast tour by pro-Israel organizations A Wider Bridge and StandWithUs. It featured several Israeli gay rights activists with funding from the Israeli consulate.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There were events that were going to be held in Olympia and Tacoma,” said Al-Aswad. “But the most prominent event was going to be held in Seattle, and it was going to be hosted by the Seattle LGBT Commission [which advises Seattle’s mayor on LGBT issues at City Hall].”</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Al-Aswad and two other queer Palestinians went to the meeting, and got up in front of the commissioners to tell their story. “The really beautiful thing that happened is that people actually </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">heard</span></span></span></em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,” she said.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After listening to Al-Aswad and the others talk about the injustices in Palestine, the commissioners were visibly upset; some were even crying. “It was this incredibly unprecedented event,” Al-Aswad said. “They voted to cancel this major city-sponsored event.”</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There was backlash. Several major Seattle LGBT organizations — including, according to Al-Aswad, those that run the queer and trans film festival, HIV outreach organizations and several that provide community mental health support — were pressured to sign a letter criticizing the LGBT Commission’s decision and calling for an independent review.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to Al-Aswad, while the fallout “really compromised the trust that queer people of Seattle had for these organizations, it also created an opportunity to address racism, and misunderstanding about Palestine in the LGBT context. Several people from our community actually joined the Commission after the organizing.” Al-Aswad was later invited to share the experience with attendees of the World Social Forum in Brazil, and the success of the action led to the creation of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid in Seattle.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By the time we had our first Seattle QuAIA meeting there was a regular group of about 50 people showing up,” said Dean Spade, a Seattle organizer who is currently working on a film about the action. “In addition, the other long-standing groups of Palestine solidarity activists in the region, including Jewish Voices for Peace and others, have all remained involved with and supportive of anti-pinkwashing work in Seattle.”</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After many years of organizing, mainstream media like </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The New York Time</span></span></span></em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">s have run articles on pinkwashing, bringing the concept to a mainstream audience. A widely publicized </span></span></span><a href="http://homonationalismconference.eventsbot.com/"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">academic conference</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> on pinkwashing was held in New York City last year. Israel’s publicity blitz continues, though, particularly with respect to gay tourism; its Gay Tel Aviv campaign launched with a huge government investment of close to $90 million four years ago.</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a lot of ways I think that Israel’s use of pinkwashing, and really trying to get at this niche community, if you will, speaks to the success [of anti-pinkwashing activism],” Al-Aswad said with hope and excitement in her voice. “This is happening all over. It shows you how threatened the powers that be are with losing legitimacy, and losing support.”</span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1; text-align: left;" align="JUSTIFY"> </p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; orphans: 1;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>This</em><span style="color: #333333;"><em> article is first published on </em></span><a href="http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/exposing-israels-pinkwashing/"><em>Waging Nonviolence</em></a><span style="color: #333333;"><em> o</em></span><em>n J</em><em>une 23, 2014.</em></span></span></span></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * 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</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-theme--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-theme.html.twig * field--expert--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-theme.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--node--field-theme.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-theme.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Theme</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/437" hreflang="en">Queer Perspectives</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Add new comment</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=25033&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="WIH5QScw7jKH2Xg6jhh895J7450M6209KE_Kg5u188Q"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:00:46 +0000 cmoy 25033 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2015/exposing-israels-pinkwashing#comments We won’t fit in your binaries, so let go of your borders and armies https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2015/we-wont-fit-your-binaries-so-let-go-your-borders-and-armies <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT 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field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 14 Oct 2015</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>The <em>Faq </em>statement on the demilitarisation of Nicosia, Cyprus. <em>Faq</em> is a feminist anarchoqueer group based in Cyprus.</p> <p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> </p><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_half&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="fad74d76-bd74-43a2-b05a-4f833897bcd1" title="" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 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'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> The auspices of militarism and nationalism are nothing strange to our everyday lives. We encounter the waving flags as we drive past a school, a church, roundabouts, mountains, to the remnants of a military post stationed in the middle of the old town centre of Nicosia. We also recognize how deeply embedded the presence of the military is in our everyday lives that we forget that in total 6 armies tightly grip the island we call home. We also drive our lives along and side-by-side a Buffer Zone that directs how we move through partial territories of the island, a Buffer Zone through which we silence ourselves in crossing, interrupting our everyday rhythm as we travel across it. In our schools we teach that we never killed anyone, but that the Others did, never taking accountability for the militarism that incites and still takes strength from constructing the Other as an Other, whether as Ξένος or Gavur. <p align="JUSTIFY">After all, what difference is there between Τούρκος καλός μόνο νεκρός and Su uyur düşman uyumaz<a name="sdfootnote1anc" href="#sdfootnote1sym" id="sdfootnote1anc"><sup>1</sup></a>?</p> <p align="JUSTIFY">We know the effects of militarism, from politicising memory of pain in order to victimise ourselves with Δεν Ξεχνώ for us to displace our own responsibility in each other’s and Others’ deaths, and Yok oluyoruk, to address one’s own disappearance while being erased by the enforced flag, any flag.</p> <p align="JUSTIFY">Açık hava hapishanesi.<sup><a name="sdfootnote1anc" href="#sdfootnote1sym" id="sdfootnote1anc">2</a></sup></p> <p align="JUSTIFY">Maraz.</p> <p align="JUSTIFY">Protectors of the nation, is what we can call the gems of the coercive institution of militarism, the ones forced to have become men to protect the Mothers, feminized entities that we call nations. We have Mother Turkey, who brings water through its umbilical pipelines to the island, thank you Erdoğan. We have Mother Greece, for whom we don’t leave our gun behind, the gun that we imagine like our girlfriend, in case someone else takes her, because we own her, just like we own a gun. </p> <p align="JUSTIFY">On either side of the border, we are told in militarist ideologies that raping a woman, is sabotaging a man’s ownership and taking over his honour and bringing shame to the man, and that the woman must be protected. Because you know, a woman has no say on who manages her own body.</p> <p align="JUSTIFY">On either side, we teach men to be tough, to be aggressive, to be alpha males, to be straight – against their own will. Femininity and non-straightness are demonized as weak, incapable of courage, for if you’re any of those, you are a traitor. A πούστης, a puşt.</p> <p align="JUSTIFY">And either way, either Other, if you want to do less of the army, there are two ways, needing connections or buying your time off, requiring you to be of a certain economic class to use your nepotistic privileges. However, if you don’t do the army, you have less legal rights than anyone else, a lesser man, an inferior citizen.</p> <p align="JUSTIFY">Imperial subjects we remain, under the United Nations and Her Majesty, the great proselytizers of the Enlightenment ideologies of the West. If there were no problems for the United Nations to solve on the island, would there be a reason for their presence on the island? Have we forgotten the British bases too?What profit, political and economic, can be generated by maintaining the division of the island?</p> <p>One proposal that we hear about nowadays that challenges the current militarized state, is the reformation of militarization by introducing a professional army. A professional army commercializes one’s duty to the nation, transforming direct coercion i.e. conscription, to economic terrorism: if you need a job, welcome to an aspiring career in waiting to kill.</p> <p align="JUSTIFY">We believe that we cannot be truly liberated before abolishing those institutions that reproduce patriarchy and national supremacy, and the socioeconomical system that rewards it.</p> <p align="JUSTIFY">We demand complete demilitarisation of our societies, and abolishment of hierarchical relations that constrain our expression and render us vulnerable.</p> <p align="JUSTIFY">To the continued attack on our freedom we respond with horizontal solidarity and collective action. </p> <p align="JUSTIFY"><em>Originally published on faq.espivblogs.net on 1 March 2015 </em></p> <p align="JUSTIFY">-------------------------------------------------------</p> <div id="sdfootnote1"> <p class="sdfootnote-western"><a name="sdfootnote1sym" href="#sdfootnote1anc" class="sdfootnotesym" id="sdfootnote1sym">1</a>An idiom in Turkish to be translated as "water sleeps, but enemy never rests" </p> <p class="sdfootnote-western"><a name="sdfootnote1sym" href="http://www.wri-irg.org/#sdfootnote1anc" class="sdfootnotesym" id="sdfootnote1sym">2</a>Open-air prison (Turkish)</p> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Programmes &amp; Projects</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/433" hreflang="en">Militarisation of Youth</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-countries--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-countries--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-countries.html.twig * field--expert--field-countries--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-countries.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * 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OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:38:10 +0000 cmoy 25031 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2015/we-wont-fit-your-binaries-so-let-go-your-borders-and-armies#comments Queering Antimilitarism working group talking point: Militarism and militarization in lgbt*/queer movements https://wri-irg.org/en/QueeringAntimilitarismWG <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--22551.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div 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SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_half&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7012dc6e-0f3f-4b32-833d-f3fed1d55179" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/Ofog%20action%20at%20Stockhold%20Pride.img_assist_custom-325x205.jpg?itok=O8v7zlCM 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/Ofog%20action%20at%20Stockhold%20Pride.img_assist_custom-325x205.jpg?itok=O8v7zlCM" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p><strong><em>Militarism and militarization in lgbt*/queer movements, and challenges for queer antimilitarists and antimilitarist queers...</em></strong></p> <p>Download a presentation <a href="https://www.wri-irg.org/sites/default/files/public_files/Militarism%20in%20lgbt%20and%20queer%20movements.doc.doc">here</a> that was used by WRI's Queering Antimilitarism working group in their conference call.</p> <p>If you would be interested in being part of future conversations on queering antimilitarism, email <a href="mailto:info@wri-irg.org">info@wri-irg.org</a></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--upload--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--upload--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--upload.html.twig * field--default--upload--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--upload.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--upload--story.html.twig * field--node--upload.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--upload.html.twig * field--file.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-upload field--type-file field--label-above"> <div 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'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-theme--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-theme.html.twig * field--expert--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-theme.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--node--field-theme.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-theme.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Theme</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/60" hreflang="en">Civil disobedience/NVDA</a></span> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/437" hreflang="en">Queer Perspectives</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Add new comment</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=22551&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="twKoJG7eavGKDvoetsE6YU__FWFmJgckHiQDKaycadU"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:01:38 +0000 HBrock 22551 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/QueeringAntimilitarismWG#comments The need for a queer perspective https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2013/need-queer-perspective <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 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field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 26 Jul 2013</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="//www.wri-irg.org/SowingSeedsOnline" target="”_blank”">Back to the Contents of the book</a></p> <p><em>Cattis Laska and Hanns Molander</em></p> <p>Militarism is not just a war, an army or a fighter jet. Militarism is a system, a logic and a set of norms that perpetuates and recreates our societies and our daily lives. Queer analysis of power is a political tool that can help us to challenge these norms, and thus, to also challenge militarism. </p> <p>The militarist ideology is deeply rooted in the heterosexist system, which forms social norms for gender/sex and sexuality. Militarism, just as society in general, is based on the construction and assumption of two opposite genders; one in need of protection (feminine) and one that protects (masculine), and their mutual interdependence and attraction. Militarism defines masculinity as powerful and aggressive, and femininity as humble and passive, and thus reproduces the construction of gender/sex. Heterosexism also includes the presumption that most people are heterosexual and that heterosexual relationships are ‘normal’ and therefore better. These assumptions and prejudices about gender/sex and sexuality have been used, and are used, to marginalise, discriminate and criminalise LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) people who challenge the legitimacy of these norms. To really challenge militarism, we need to challenge gender and sexuality norms, both in society as a whole and within our own movements. And as well as directly challenging the militarist ideology imposed on us, we also need to work on ways to create a truly peaceful and secure world.</p> <p>This article explores some examples of antimilitarist work that the direct action for peace network Ofog have been doing in Sweden. Counter-recruitment is often the focus of this work.</p> <p><strong>Workshop for high school classes</strong></p> <p>Since the military's primary target group for recruitment is 15-25 year olds, high school students are a crucial group for Ofog to work with. We have put together a workshop to discuss war and militarism, mainly directed at high scool classes, but also other groups targeted by military recruitment. Of course, one of the goals of this workshop <em>is to counter</em> recruitment, but it also raises critical awareness about war and militarism in general. From doing these workshops, it has been very clear to us that young people have few ways of getting the information they need in order to make an informed choice on whether to join the military or not, even just in terms what to think of the military and to know what they're really doing. We want to create space for young people to discuss what peace and security mean to them, what they need in order to feel secure, and what their thoughts are on the military. </p> <p><strong>Actions against the Swedish Armed Forces recruitment campaign 'Have you got what it takes?'</strong></p> <p>The first recruitment campaign after compulsory military service was abolished used slogans like 'Your grandmother doesn't care if Sweden's air space is violated' and 'Your friend doesn't care if there's a natural disaster', followed by 'Do you have what it takes to have an opinion?'. In this campaign, those presented as not having opinions – as not caring - were never male: they were either female or gender-neutral. And thus 'to have what it takes' was to be male and to challenge these people, as well as to have a macho attitude, to be able to fit into a hierarchy, to have enough physical strength, and to be ready to use violence. Ofog's response to this campaign was to question the truth of the statements, giving the people 'without opinions' another voice that was not passive but active, saying 'We've got what it takes'. But our sense of 'having what it takes' is different – it means nonviolence, non-hierchical structure, equal access to knowledge, and so on.</p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'filter_caption' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/filter/templates/filter-caption.html.twig' --><figure role="group" class="align-center"><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="Military: Your grandmother doesn't care if Sweden's air space is violated. Ofog: But on the other hand she's really pissed off that the US Air Force tests bombs in Northern Sweden (credit – Ofog)" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_half&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="51649b35-3dc9-465d-ad91-72eb09be7482" title="" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/Cattis%20-%20subvertising.home.JPG?itok=zmWM8W75 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/Cattis%20-%20subvertising.home.JPG?itok=zmWM8W75" alt="Military: Your grandmother doesn't care if Sweden's air space is violated. Ofog: But on the other hand she's really pissed off that the US Air Force tests bombs in Northern Sweden (credit – Ofog)" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><figcaption>Military: Your grandmother doesn't care if Sweden's air space is violated. Ofog: But on the other hand she's really pissed off that the US Air Force tests bombs in Northern Sweden (credit – Ofog)</figcaption></figure><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/filter/templates/filter-caption.html.twig' --><p><strong>Stockholm Pride Festival</strong></p> <p>Another example is that the military, both in Sweden and in many other parts of the world, is currently using LGBTQ communities to legitimise their activities. By creating a (false) public image of a 'modern' and 'open' military, they seek to create acceptance for militarism and military 'solutions'. It is very important to organise against this 'pinkwashing' by the military - to refuse to be used to legitimise death and destruction. Together we must show that only an antimilitarist world is a really secure world for LGBTQ people and others. </p> <p>The Swedish Armed Forces participated in the Stockholm Pride Festival in 2011 with the slogan 'Openness - part of our reality'. This was part of their recruiting campaign 'Welcome to our reality', where they promoted themselves as a challenging, exciting and open workplace. At their tent in the 'Pride Park', Ofog did a die-in with a banner saying 'Your reality kills'. With this we wanted to show what their reality really is: war and death. We also blocked their tent for a few hours, preventing them from recruiting. In the Pride parade, which concludes the Pride festival, the organisation for LGBT soldiers marched in military uniforms by a big truck with the slogan 'Openness - part of our reality'. We walked beside them for the whole parade, holding speech bubbles saying: 'My job kills', 'I'm just as good at killing as heterosexual soldiers' and 'Here I walk defending my human rights, while my job is is about violation of other people’s human rights'.</p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'filter_caption' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/filter/templates/filter-caption.html.twig' --><figure role="group" class="align-center"><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="Die-in in Pride Park, Stockholm, 2001. The banner says 'Your reality kills' (credit - Ofog)" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_full&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="f4691bf8-7b69-487e-a74a-43e1bc99ae3a" title="" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/Cattis%20-%20Pride%20die-in.home.JPG?itok=-JDSUr3t 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/Cattis%20-%20Pride%20die-in.home.JPG?itok=-JDSUr3t" alt="Die-in in Pride Park, Stockholm, 2001. The banner says 'Your reality kills' (credit - Ofog)" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><figcaption>Die-in in Pride Park, Stockholm, 2001. The banner says 'Your reality kills' (credit - Ofog)</figcaption></figure><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/filter/templates/filter-caption.html.twig' --><p><strong>Summer course: 'The militarisation of our lives and societies - feminism as resistance'</strong></p> <p>Last summer we organised a four-week summer course on the topics of feminism and antimilitarism: how to use feminism as an analytical tool for understanding war and militarism, and how to use feminism as a practical tool or method to stop war. In order to counter militarism and militarisation, we need to understand the connections between patriarchy, gender, war, and militarism. Since much of Ofog's work is focused on direct action, we recognise that we also need space and time for reflection and discussion on what security means to us, and how we can realise it. </p> <p>It was therefore also important for us to bring 'recruitment by and resistantance by queers' as a theme to the June 2012 Darmstadt conference on the 'Militarisation of youth'. As well as the need for feminist and queer activists need to see the struggle against militarism as a central part of their struggles and movements, antimilitarist activists need to include a queer analysis in their work against war. Besides the many reasons mentioned above, queer youth are especially vulnerable as a target group for military recruitment because of the discrimination and oppression that exclude them or see them kicked out of their schools, homes and workplaces. Those doing counter recruitment work need to be familiar with queer perspectives and issues, and to be sensitive to these. </p> <p>Because 'queer and antimilitarism' was a new theme to many people who took part in the workshop that we facilitated at Darmstadt, much of the time was spent on explanations, resulting in limited discussion. This demonstrates the need for us to work on this issue, and establish it as a central part of counter recruitment work specifically, as well as of antimilitarism in general. </p> <p>We need to discuss what we consider to be part of the antimilitarist struggle, how issues considered 'other' (including heterosexism, but also, for example, racism or ableism) can be raised within the antimilitarist movement, and how we can integrate them. We need to respond to the military's appropriation of words and struggles that should be incompatible with it because they are based on human rights (which the military fundamentally contravene). And we need to devise ways of reaching out to members of these groups in risk of being recruited. </p> <p>The struggles against oppressive structures based on gender/sex and sexuality are essential in the struggle against militarisation. Consequently, we need to continue to work against heterosexism, transphobia and patriarchy, in our own movements and in the rest of the society. 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</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:49:57 +0000 HBrock 22123 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2013/need-queer-perspective#comments Queer and gender critiques of military recruitment and militarisation https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2013/queer-and-gender-critiques-military-recruitment-and-militarisation <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--22109.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="22109" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 25 Jul 2013</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="//www.wri-irg.org/SowingSeedsOnline" target="”_blank”">Back to the Contents of the book</a></p> <p><em>Andreas Speck</em></p> <p>The military uses equality talk in its recruitment campaigns, which so often focus on young people. Given that far more young people encounter these recruitment campaigns than join the armed forces, the impact of this representation is broad. I write this from the perspective of a gay man, although despite not being very involved in the queer movement I identify with queer concepts rather than with a gay identity.[1] This is partly based on my own experience in the gay community, where the wish to be ‘normal’ and ‘accepted’ is common: this involves embracing our militarist society as it is. As an antimilitarist, anarchist, and feminist, I often felt uncomfortable with this. However, I often also felt that the antimilitarist movement is not very welcoming to queer or transgender people, and even though I did not experience open homophobia, I do think there is an assumption – at least by men – that one is straight.[2] Sexuality is not seen as an important aspect of the antimilitarist struggle, but I do think it is.</p> <p><strong>Militarism, Masculinity, and Heteronormatism</strong></p> <p>That militarism and masculinity are closely linked is obvious, and not only because soldiers are predominantly men. Nevertheless, I want to highlight some pertinent points. Firstly, while the military is clearly a masculine institution, this does not mean that there is only one form of military masculinity. Any modern armed force will require different forms of military masculinity, although they are not necessarily equally valued, nor recognised by the public. The dominant – or hegemonic – forms of military masculinity are probably still very close to the Rambo warrior image. This is mainly associated with ground combat troops, even though they may form a minority within the military. However, other forms of military masculinity based more on technology are playing an increasingly important role. Secondly, the public image of <em>all</em> these masculinities is heterosexual. Even militaries that allow queer people to serve represent themselves as straight in the mainstream media. </p> <p><strong>Gender, sexuality and recruitment</strong></p> <p>When we talk about military recruitment, it is important to do so from a queer and gender perspective. This doesn't just mean having an awareness of the military's efforts to recruit women, queer people, and other minorities; we also need to look at how the military's recruitment efforts make use of perceptions of gender and sexuality, and how at the same time they contribute to the social construction of gender and sexuality. The military doesn't just use certain images of masculinity to attract certain kinds of men; it also shapes masculinities, and therefore contributes to the everyday re-enactment of patriarchy and heterosexism.</p> <p>According to the academic Melissa T Brown, the US military is still using masculinity as a focus in its recruitment efforts, using ‘several versions of masculinity, including both transformed models that are gaining dominance in the civilian sector, and traditional warrior forms that can appeal to those who are threatened by the changes and looking for a refuge’.[3] Brown points out that the marines in particular continue to rely on a traditional warrior image, but that the other services also still emphasise masculine attributes, even when using economic benefits to attract recruits: ‘the kinds of jobs a man can build a world of his own on' - not a woman. The situation in the UK appears to be similar.[4]</p> <p>While in most countries conscription was or is (with the exception of Israel and Eritrea) only for men, armed forces' volunteer positions are often open to women. But this does not mean the military presents itself as less masculine. As Brown points out: </p> <p> <em>The end of male conscription made the connection between masculinity and soldiering less automatic, and the services could theoretically have attempted to de-gender service in recruiting materials, but instead they re-forged the link, constructing masculinity both in ways traditionally linked to warriorhood and in alternative forms.</em>[5]</p> <p>Women rarely feature in recruitment adverts, and usually they are pictured in different roles: they are only ‘offered some limited access to characteristics and experiences that have generally been associated with men, like testing oneself, experiencing adventure, and having a career.’[6]</p> <p>The attempts by the military to recruit women and queers are mainly due to two reasons: recruitment shortfalls - although less so in the current economic climate - and outside political pressure from civilian society. In quite a few countries, access for women and queers had to be fought for in the courts, and only when the military had lost the legal battle did it embrace equal opportunities, but without a change at heart.</p> <p>I have my doubts about how much the military’s engagement with the queer community, for examples its presence at gay pride events, is really about recruiting, or whether it is more about on the one hand militarising the queer community by creating acceptance for militarism and the recourse to military solutions, and on the other presenting a public image of a modern and open military in a democratic country. The latter objective is closely linked to how ‘Muslim fundamentalism’ is framed as the main threat and enemy: it forms part of the anti-Muslim propaganda, rather than being a reflection of a genuinely open military friendly to women and queers. </p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'filter_caption' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/filter/templates/filter-caption.html.twig' --><figure role="group" class="align-center"><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="An ironic cartoon (credit – Mr Fish)" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_full&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a483e4d5-33d9-4682-a37b-3163b15b1733" title="" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/Andreas-MrFish.home.jpg?itok=TlzrtSaX 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/Andreas-MrFish.home.jpg?itok=TlzrtSaX" alt="An ironic cartoon (credit – Mr Fish)" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><figcaption>An ironic cartoon (credit – Mr Fish)</figcaption></figure><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/filter/templates/filter-caption.html.twig' --><p><strong>Military reality</strong></p> <p>The world as painted by recruitment adverts and military propaganda has to be contrasted with the reality of life in the military. The recruitment adverts are designed to lure people into enlisting – but we all know that advertising doesn't show the full picture. There are many aspects of recruitment advertising that are far from the reality, and it is important to point out these discrepancies. </p> <p><strong>Homophobia and sexual harassment</strong></p> <p>There are reports of homophobia in the armed forces of many countries, including those that do allow gays and lesbians to join – such as the UK, Germany and Canada - where studies have been conducted. In 2010, the ombudsman of the German Bundeswehr stated in his annual report that he again received complaints from soldiers who experienced discrimination based on their sexual orientation.[7] In the Canadian military, according to recent reports, homophobia including bullying is not unusual, but people don’t report it unless it creates a toxic environment or is a serious threat.[8] Even though coming-out does not cause legal problems in these countries, it is not encouraged in a pre-dominantly straight masculine environment. As a result, diversity is not embraced, and sexuality is seen as a ‘private matter’. There is similar anecdotal evidence from many other countries around the world, whether or not they allow lesbian or gays to serve.[9]</p> <p>As the academic Victoria Basham points out with regards to the UK military, ‘Privatising sexuality reinforces the heterosexist culture that made the previous policy (banning lesbians and gays from the military) possible in the first place’.[10] </p> <p>For women in the UK military, sexual harassment is widespread. A 2006 study spaning three years, conducted by the Equal Opportunities Commission and the MoD showed that 99% of women in the armed forces had been exposed to sexual harassment, and 67% said it happened directly to them. 49% of reported cases lasted more than two months; 23% involved the victim suffering for more than twelve months.[11] This does not seem to have changed significantly since. A letter written on 25 October 2012 by the high ranking Major General John Lorimer to the Adjutant General Lieutenant General Gerry Berragan outlines a summary of Lorimer's views on equality and diversity (E&amp;D) in the Army after speaking to 6,000 army personnel. Damingly, on sexual harassment, Maj Gen Lorimer states that 'every female officer or OR [other rank] that my Comd Sgt Maj has spoken to claims to have been the subject of unwanted sexual attention.'[12]</p> <p>In the US military, according to official figures, 4.4% of women experienced ‘unwanted sexual contact’ – rape or sexual assault.[13] However, a 2003 study of women seeking health care through the Veteran’s Administration from the period of the Vietnam war through the first Gulf War (1990-1) found that nearly one in three women was raped while serving - almost twice the rate of rape in general civil society - and that eight in ten had been sexually harassed.[14] </p> <p>These statistics do not reveal the trauma nor the long-term consequences of the survivors of sexual harassment, assault, and rape.</p> <p>The Canadian academic Gary Kinsman says that basic military principles and structure are at the root of heterosexist attitudes: the military has historically been a male-dominated, hierarchical and ‘masculinist’ institution. He claims that one product of a masculinist attitude is the association of male sexuality with extreme hostility, especially toward those men and women who don’t fit in, including lesbians and gays: ‘We’re actually talking about very dangerous situations for women in general, but also for anyone who’s openly identified as being queer, whether they are or not’.[15] Sexual harassment in the military serves a purpose: to show women that they don't belong in a male institution.</p> <p><strong>Hazing</strong></p> <p>Another part of the masculinist reality of the military is the hazing of new soldiers – often sexualised bullying and abuse, which forms part of the initiation, but can get much worse. While hazing is often associated with Eastern European or former Soviet militaries, where admittedly the scale of the problem is worse[16], it is also prevalent in Western armed forces. A Norwegian study found that 22% of soldiers reported having been hazed, and 19% that they had hazed others.[17] Hazing is also common in the British Army, as has been highlighted by several scandals in recent years. A 2003 survey found that 43% of respondents found bullying to be a problem, and 5% had been victims of it.[18]</p> <p>However, hazing is not ordinary bullying. It forms part of regimental initiation rites, or, as the academic Hana Cervinkova put it in an article on Czech conscripts: ‘a rite-of-passage, which involves psychological and physical violence perpetrated by the senior on the junior conscripts’, and the humiliation of those to be initiated - their feminisation, including through sexualised violence and abuse.[19]</p> <p>Hazing goes with masculinity. As the academic Elizabeth Allan points out: </p> <p>The more boys/men are fearful of being labelled as weak - the more likely they are to participate in hazing activities that are dangerous and even life-threatening... The predominant social construction of masculinity, and homophobia, work in tandem to create a climate in which violent and demeaning hazing practices are more likely to be tolerated and even considered beneficial for young men.[20]</p> <p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p> <p>Despite all the military's equality talk, and its inclusion of women and queer people, it remains essentially a masculine institution. Far from embracing diversity, it continues to promote itself as a man's world. </p> <p>However, militarised masculinities, and the military’s exploitation of equality talk in order to reach out to women and other sexual minorities, can be countered. The challenge is to acknowledge and condemn the discrimination of women, queer people and other minorities in the reality of the military, without falling into the trap of advocating a reform of the military rather than its elimination.</p> <p>It is important to go back to the roots of queer liberation, which wasn't about equality within a patriarchal and militarist system, but a radical and fundamental change of our societies. Something got lost with the mainstreaming of gender and queer, and with equality talk; we need to reclaim that something. Our queer struggle is a struggle against all forms of power structures that press us into norms and binaries, of which the military is a major offender.</p> <p><strong>Notes</strong></p> <p>[1] This article uses the term 'queer' because it is broader than lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual/transgender (lgbt). Queer has been reappropriated (or reclaimed) from its derogatory meaning by lgbt activists since the early 1990s and includes all those whose sexual orientation, activity, or gender representation places them outside the heterosexual mainstream with its gender and sexual binarisms.</p> <p>[2] Andreas Speck, 'Zwischen allen Stühlen? Schwul in der gewaltfreien Bewegung - gewaltfrei in der Schwulenbewegung', October 2000. <a href="//andreasspeck.info/de/node/26" target="”_blank”">http://andreasspeck.info/de/node/26</a> (accessed 5 June 2012).</p> <p>[3] Melissa T Brown, 'Enlisting Masculinity: The Construction of Gender in US Military Recruiting Advertising and the Recruitment of the All-Volunteer Force' (Academic dissertation, 2007).</p> <p>[4] Melissa T Brown, ‘“Be the best”: Military Recruiting and the Cultural Construction of Soldiering in Great Britain’, <em>GSC Quarterly</em>, 5 (2002).</p> <p>[5] Brown, 'Enlisting Masculinity'.</p> <p>[6] Ibid.</p> <p>[7] Stern.de, ‘Jahresbericht zur Bundeswehr: Mangel und Missstand an allen Fronten’, 16 March 2010. <a href="//www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/jahresbericht-zur-bundeswehr-mangel-und-missstand-an-allen-fronten-1551308.html" target="”_blank”">http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/jahresbericht-zur-bundeswehr-mangel-und-missstand-an-allen-fronten-1551308.html</a> (accessed 5 June 2012).</p> <p>[8] Andi Schwartz: 'Gay in the army. Despite years of inclusion, Canadian military still not a friendly space for gays and lesbians', 23 February 2012. <a href="//www.xtra.ca/public/National/Gay_in_the_army-11576.aspx" target="”_blank”">http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Gay_in_the_army-11576.aspx</a> (accessed 5 June 2012).</p> <p>[9] See, for example, from South Korea: The Korea Herald: ‘Gay man's objection to service sheds light on sexual abuse in military’, 16 December 2011. <a href="//view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20111216000668&amp;cpv=0" target="”_blank”">http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20111216000668&amp;cpv=0</a> (accessed 5 June 2012).</p> <p>[10] Victoria Basham, ‘Harnessing Social Diversity in the British Armed Forces: The Limitations of ‘Management’ Approaches’, <em>Commonwealth &amp; Comparative Politics</em>, 47:4 (2009), pp. 411-429.</p> <p>[11] The Female Frontline, ‘Sexual Harassment in the British Forces’, 15 March 2012. <a href="//thefemalefrontline.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/199/" target="”_blank”">http://thefemalefrontline.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/199/</a> (accessed 5 June 2012). </p> <p>[12] Channel 4 News, 'Sexual harassment and bullying rife in the army', 28 November 2012. <a href="//www.channel4.com/news/sexual-harassment-and-bullying-rife-in-the-army" target="”_blank”">http://www.channel4.com/news/sexual-harassment-and-bullying-rife-in-the-army</a> (accessed 14 May 2013).</p> <p>[13] Defense Manpower Data Center, ‘Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members’, 2010. <a href="//www.sapr.mil/media/pdf/research/DMDC_2010_WGRA_Overview_Report_of_Sexual_Assault.pdf" target="”_blank”">http://www.sapr.mil/media/pdf/research/DMDC_2010_WGRA_Overview_Report_of_Sexual_Assault.pdf</a> (accessed 5 June 2012).</p> <p>[14] H Patricia Hynes, ‘Military Sexual Abuse: A Greater Menace Than Combat’, <em>Truthout.org</em>, 26 January 2012. <a href="//truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;view=item&amp;id=6299:military-sexual-abuse-a-greater-menace-than-combat" target="”_blank”">http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;view=item&amp;id=6299:military-sexual-abuse-a-greater-menace-than-combat</a> (accessed 5 June 2012).</p> <p>[15] Cited in Schwartz, ‘Gay in the army’.</p> <p>[16] See, for example: Olga Miryasova, ‘Abuse in the Military – Gender Aspects’, August 2007. <a href="//www.wri-irg.org/node/6523" target="”_blank”">http://www.wri-irg.org/node/6523</a> (accessed 5 June 2012).</p> <p>[17] Kristina Østvik &amp; Floyd Rudmin, ‘Bullying and Hazing Among Norwegian Army Soldiers: Two Studies of Prevalence, Context, and Cognition’, <em>Military Psychology</em>, 13:1, (2001), pp. 17–39. <a href="//humiliationstudies.org/documents/RudminOstvikBullyingNorwegianArmy.pdf" target="”_blank”">http://humiliationstudies.org/documents/RudminOstvikBullyingNorwegianArmy.pdf</a> (accessed 5 June 2012).</p> <p>[18] James K. Wither, ‘Battling Bullying in the British Army’, in Françoise Daucé and Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (eds), <em>Dedovschina in the Post-Soviet Military</em>, (Stuttgart, 2006).</p> <p>[19] Hana Cervinkova, ‘Time to Waste. Notes on the Culture of the Enlisted in the Professionalizing Czech Military’, in Daucé and Sieca-Kozlowski, <em>Dedovschina</em>, pp. 205 – 220.</p> <p>[20] Elizabeth J. Allan, ‘Hazing and the Making of Men', 2003. <a href="//www.stophazing.org/makingofmen.htm" target="”_blank”">http://www.stophazing.org/makingofmen.htm</a> (accessed 5 June 2012).</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * 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field--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--node--field-theme.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-theme.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Theme</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/437" hreflang="en">Queer Perspectives</a></span> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/442" hreflang="en">Militarisation of Youth</a></span> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/273" hreflang="en">gender and militarism</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Add new comment</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=22109&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" 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OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 25 Jul 2013</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="//www.wri-irg.org/SowingSeedsOnline" target="”_blank”">Back to the Contents of the book</a></p> <p><em>The image of masculinity...the model men that go to war, that compete.</em> - Jorge Veléz, Colombia</p> <p><em>The Ministry of Women, for example, was created in 2006 and since then one of the main goals that the Minister for Women has proposed is to provide two million female members to the militia. She has already set in motion a first stage where she promised 150,000...</em> - Rafael Uzcategui, Venezuela</p> <p><em>We do also have women in the military, but comparatively the ratio is low.</em> – Samuel Koduh, Ghana</p> <p><em>I remember one time a mission taking supplies to an orphanage. As a sergeant I was team-leader, and one of the soldiers in my unit said to me and my friend Elizabeth “You guys must be so proud to be able to give such a good image of women, 'cause the women here are so oppressed”.</em> - Kelly Dougherty, USA</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * 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--> <time > 25 Jul 2013</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="”/SowingSeedsOnline" target="”_blank”">Back to the Contents of the book</a></p> <p>Of the thirty-two countries surveyed, there is only an active attempt to recruit LGBT people in four. Eight countries don’t allow LGBT people to enlist at all, although of those, Kenya is the only one where homosexuality is actually illegal. In Turkey men can be exempted from military service if they can 'prove' (including by providing photos or video footage of them having sex with men) that they are homosexual. But in the majority of countries, sexuality is simply not a recruitment criterion.</p> <p>The widely-promoted values that the military is believed to imbue are invariably related to ideals of gender. In Finland, Russia, and Switzerland it is emphasised that military service makes you become a man; in France you are said to become yourself. In Spain, equality for women is stressed. India is the only country where there is no active attempt to enlist women. However, in India, like in the UK, although women can not officially be in front-line combat positions, they can still engage in combat.</p> <p>In eleven countries the enlistment of both women and LGBT is presented as part of the 'morality' of the military by promoting equal opportunities: in ten only the enlistment of women is presented in this positive way, and in the remaining eleven this argument is not used at all.</p> <p>Israel, Sweden, Colombia and the US are the only countries in which women and LGBT enlistment is both allowed (including combat), promoted specifically, and used as a public relations tool of the army’s moral standards. It is interesting to see how this is used differently and for different social and political reasons in each of these countries, when in Colombia the enlistment of LGBT is often seen as a way to 'make them normal', whereas in the US the decision was part of a lengthy internal political debate, and in Sweden and Israel the enlistment of both women and LGBT is emphasised as a moral standard as opposed to the societies these countries are involved in combat with (in Sweden versus the Afghan oppression of women, and in Israel versus conservative-Islamic values in general).</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Programmes &amp; Projects</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/433" hreflang="en">Militarisation of Youth</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-theme--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-theme.html.twig * field--expert--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-theme.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--node--field-theme.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-theme.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Theme</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/437" hreflang="en">Queer Perspectives</a></span> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/442" hreflang="en">Militarisation of Youth</a></span> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/273" hreflang="en">gender and militarism</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Add new comment</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=22107&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="Qi0Oc8acLnj7GldKuPH4v39AkNzc0K8lOyOz_Kfx12o"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:02:51 +0000 HBrock 22107 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2013/survey-findings-gender-and-sexuality#comments Against Equality https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2012/against-equality <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--20324.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="20324" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 29 Aug 2012</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>This work would not have been possible without the work of Against Equality, an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. As queer thinkers, writers and artists, Against Equality is committed to dislodging the centrality of equality rhetoric and challenging the demand for inclusion in the institution of marriage, the US military, and the prison industrial complex via hate crimes legislation.</p> <p>Against Equality want to reinvigorate the queer political imagination with fantastic possibility!</p> <p><a href="http://againstequality.org">http://againstequality.org</a></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-theme--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-theme.html.twig * field--expert--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-theme.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-theme--story.html.twig * field--node--field-theme.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-theme.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Theme</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/437" hreflang="en">Queer Perspectives</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Add new comment</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=20324&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="UD_Gi0KG9qrNsaG16gY2A--GfT5J7g1P_VWaDTyatxY"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:35:08 +0000 warresisters 20324 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2012/against-equality#comments