Out-FM program aired April 15, 2025
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Queer North American Reports on the West Bank Under Occupation
Kate Raphael is a novelist, journalist, anarchafeminist and queer activist based in Seattle
On April 14, DropSite News reported that in the occupied West Bank, Israeli restrictions on movement for Palestinians, denial of access to resources, and settlement expansion have all ramped up over the past 18 months. Last year, the International Solidarity Movement or ISM, which had been active in Palestine from the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2001 until the COVID shutdown in 2020, put out a new call for volunteers.
Our guest is Kate Raphael is a novelist, journalist, anarchafeminist and queer activist based in Seattle. She answered the ISM's call herself, and also helped to mobilize u.s. solidarity volunteers. Kate spent six weeks in the West Bank from November & December of 2024, after earlier solidarity trips twenty years ago. Kate was a cofounder of the San Francisco-based Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT). Her published work includes the two mysteries set in Palestine, Murder Under the Bridge and the Lambda-nominated Murder Under the Fig Tree, as well as The Midwife’s In Town, a story of underground abortion. She is a producer and host on Women’s Magazine and the Sunday Show at WBAI’s sibling Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley, California.
Children drawing on Apartheid Wall in the West Bank
The last year has been one of the deadliest on record in the West Bank: as of last month, 736 people had been killed by settlers and soldiers (most by soldiers), including 165 children. Over 11,500 people have been arrested, and over 3,000 are held in administrative detention, without charge or trial.
Hope is A Land – Kate's report from Palestine (December 22, 2024)
Kate's recent slide show about the West Bank
Reflecting on Queerness in Times of Genocide (by alQaws - "for sexual & gender diversity in Palestinian society" - & Queers in Palestine), 6-06-2024
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