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How Israel SINISTERLY Weaponizes LGBTQ Rights with Ghadir Shafie and Dean Spade

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Katie speaks with Ghadir Shafie and Dean Spade about pink-washing, Israel's weaponization of LGBTQ rights, and more. Ghadir Shafie is a Palestinian activist and strategist, born and based in Palestine/Israel. She is a co- founder of Aswat- a Palestinian feminist-queer center for sexual and gender freedoms. She has spent the last decade of her life passionately advocating for the intersectionality of the struggle of Palestinian queer women, fighting multiple forms of oppression. Her interviews and articles appear in various media outlets and academic papers. Dean Spade is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. Dean has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, and the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!.” His latest book is Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next). ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

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and rarely seen clips that aired on our live shows.

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Tideer Shafi is a Palestinian activist and strategist born and based in Palestine Israel.

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She is a co-founder of Azwak, Palestinian Feminist Queer Center for Sexual and Gender

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Freedoms, and has spent the last

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decade of her life passionately advocating for the intersectionality of the

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struggle of Palestinian queer women, finding multiple forms of oppression as

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Palestinians in the context of Israel's system of apartheid

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military occupation and settler colonialism. As women in a militaristic and imperialistic

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mal-dominant society and as queers in the context of pink washing and homophobia.

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In doing so, she contributed together and more committed and engaged global feminists and

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queers to rally around Palestine.

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Her interviews and articles appear in various media outlets

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and academic papers, Arab, and international.

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So welcome, Radir, thank you so much for joining us.

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Thank you for having me.

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