Picciotto Student Residence, Common Room
A collaboration between IRPS 128, QISA, and Gender Centre. This screening series explores various forms of discrimination and marginalization based on sexuality and gender and shows ways taken by activists to fight back against stigma, exclusion, and violence.
Screening followed by a discussion with Dr Karine Duplan, Senior Lecturer at the University of Geneva and research lead of the project “WE ARE EVERYWHERE - Revendications et réappropriations de l’espace et de la citoyenneté par les minorités sexuelles en contexte de ville néolibérale”
A collaboration between RISP 128, QISA & the Gender Centre
This series explores various forms of discrimination and marginalization based on sexuality and gender and shows ways taken by activists to fight back against stigma, exclusion, and violence. We start by looking at the situation of migrant sex workers in five European countries before moving on to the fight for equality undertaken by various LGBTQI+ activists in a range of different countries and on the global level.
Pinkwashing exposed: Seattle fights back! (2014), edited by Amy Mahardy and directed by Dean Space (60 min)
A documentary on anti-pinkwashing and Palestine solidarity activism in Seattle. In 2012, activists in the Pacific Northwestern region of the US responded to an Israeli Consulate-funded pinkwashing tour featuring Israeli gay and lesbian activists that was coming to the region. Local queer Palestine solidarity activists exposed the “Rainbow Generations” tour as pro-Israel propaganda and got some of the events, including the tour’s centerpiece event hosted by the City of Seattle’s LGBT Commission, cancelled. A significant backlash ensued involving the Seattle City Council and Seattle’s leading LGBT and HIV organizations. Through the inspiring story of these activists’ victory, “Pinkwashing Exposed” explores how pinkwashing works and what local activists are doing to fight back.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Dr Karine Duplan, Senior Lecturer at the University of Geneva and research lead of the project “WE ARE EVERYWHERE - Revendications et réappropriations de l’espace et de la citoyenneté par les minorités sexuelles en contexte de ville néolibérale”.
See here the full screening series program:
