How Do You Say "Come Out of the Closet" in Arabic?: Queer Activism and the Politics of Visibility in Israel-Palestine
How Do You Say "Come Out of the Closet" in Arabic?: Queer Activism and the Politics of Visibility in Israel-Palestine
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你怎么说“出柜”用阿拉伯语？：酷儿行动主义和以色列-巴勒斯坦的可见性政治
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10.1215/10642684-2010-004
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2010
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J. Ritchie
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在这篇文章中，我利用对以色列和巴勒斯坦酷儿活动家的人种学采访，来质问“主流”酷儿激进主义中可见性政治的中心地位。我认为，酷儿以色列活动家对可见性的依赖作为一种政治战略，嵌入并支持了以色列民族主义和以色列国家的暴力行为的种族主义言论。我认为，“检查站”，而不是“壁橱”，提供了一个更有成效的比喻，同性恋活动家和思想家可能会组织他们的努力。最后，我讨论了古怪的巴勒斯坦激进主义作为一种政治的颠覆潜力，这种政治挑战多重压迫，破坏而不是归化国家的种族主义、反民主逻辑。
In this essay, I draw on ethnographic interviews with Israeli and Palestinian queer activists in Israel to interrogate the centrality of the politics of visibility in "mainstream" queer activism. I suggest that queer Israeli activists' reliance on visibility as a political strategy is embedded in and supportive of the racist discourses of Israeli nationalism and the violent practices of the Israeli state. I argue that the "checkpoint," rather than the "closet," offers a more productive metaphor against which queer activists and thinkers might organize their efforts. I conclude with a discussion of the subversive potential of queer Palestinian activism as a politics that challenges multiple oppressions and undermines, rather than naturalizes, the racist, antidemocratic logic of the nation.