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NEW: A queer and trans Palestine reading list.
Queer and Trans Palestine
• Citation and Censorship: The Politics of Talking About the Sexual Politics of Israel (Jasbir Puar)
• “Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv”: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude (Saffo Papantonopoulou)
• To Exist Is to Resist: Palestine and the Question of Queer Theory (C. Heike Schotten)
• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (Angela Davis)
• Journal of Palestine Studies (open access)
• Queer Necropolitics (in Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman, and Silvia Posocco)
• Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Sa’ed Atshan)
• Reciprocal Solidarity:Where the Black and Palestinian Queer Struggles Meet (Sa’ed Atshan and Darnell L. Moore)
• The Right to Maim (Jasbir Puar)
• Roundtable: On Palestinian Studies and Queer Theory (Nadine Naber et al.)
• TERFism, Zionism, and Right-Wing Annihilationism: Toward an Internationalist Genealogy of Extinction Phobia (C. Heike Schotten)
• Terrorist Assemblages (Jasbir Puar)
More Free Stuff:
• Black History Month Library
• Black Lives Matter Instructional Library Read-Aloud books
• Sociologists for Trans Justice #TransJusticeSyllabus
• Anna’s Archive
• Marxists Internet Archive Library
• Library Genesis
• Project Gutenberg
