A review by laurareads87
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

A deeply personal, nuanced autoethnography on LGBTQ+ organizing in Palestine. I appreciate a lot about this text: the author does not shy away from grappling with the complexity of the struggles he discusses.  Atshan articulates some very important critiques of critique in his chapter ‘Critique of Empire and the Politics of Academia’ that are relevant to many disciplines and areas of study. He advances a deeply intersectional politic that powerfully critiques the very real pressures on activists to hierarchalize or prioritize struggles.

Content warnings: discussions of homophobia, transphobia, colonialism, racism, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, war, hate crimes