dispatch from freeing palestine

and something about a lesbian divorce

Welcome to this week’s dispatch from the lesbian internet, a mid-week news roundup from Paging Dr. Lesbian, exclusively for paid subscribers. If you like this type of thing, tell your friends to subscribe.

Instead of starting with silly stuff today, I’m going to start with serious stuff. I’m making this section free to all subscribers, because it seems unethical to have this behind a paywall. Here are some helpful resources/pieces of writing about Palestine.

Background reading:

• Haymarket has provided several free E-books about Palestine. I found Palestine: A Socialist Introduction to be very illuminating.

• This is a Google Doc of resources about Palestinian liberation compiled by Hanna Phifer.

• How Palestinians were expelled from their homes (via Vox)

Journalism:

• Raz Segal in Jewish Currents: A Textbook Case of Genocide

• Arielle Angel in Jewish Currents: “We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”

• Gabriel Winant in Dissent: On Mourning and Statehood

• Tareq S. Hajjaj in Mondoweiss: This could be my last report from Gaza

• Sarah Schulman in Intelligencer: Explanations Are Not Excuses

• Ashley Bohrer in Al Jazeera: Against the pinkwashing of Israel (from 2014)

Actions items:

• Places to donate: Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, Medical Aid for Palestinians

• How to contact Congress to demand a ceasefire.

• A STATEMENT OF GAZA’S DEMANDS MADE BY PEOPLE IN GAZA

If you’re wondering what any of this has to do with Paging Dr. Lesbian, zoom in on the Gaza Strip and West Bank portions of Queering The Map (seen below). All struggles worth fighting for are also queer struggles, including the fight for Palestinian Liberation.