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Israel, Zionism and the Genocidal War on Gaza; and Black Asians
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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., October 17, 2023 from 8:00-9:00 pm EDT, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY
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Segment 1: Israel, Zionism and the Genocidal War on Gaza
More than 1,030 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7 -- about one child every 15 minutes, and more than one-third of the total death toll.
Out-FM’s Naomi Brussel speaks with two U.S.-based activists for Palestinian rights, one Palestinian and one Jewish North American about the current Israeli genocidal campaign in Gaza, and what role queers can play in solidarity with Palestine. They will also report on the recent two-day conference of the new Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, held in New York City and Santa Cruz, CA.
Guests:
Emmaia Gelman is guest faculty in Social Sciences at Sarah Lawrence College and the founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which examines the transnational work of Zionist political and ideological institutions. She researches the history of ideas about race, queerness, safety, and rights as levers in political culture, and is co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism. She is writing a critical history of the Anti-Defamation League (1913-1990) as a Cold War neoconservative institution. Emmaia is a longtime activist on queer and antiracist issues, primarily in New York City, and the parent of three brilliant and compassionate kids.
The First Week: Dispatch from the Palestinian Youth Movement
Segment 2: Blasians (Black Asians) - Discussion with Rohan Zhou-Lee
Rohan Zhou-Lee telling queer API contingent members in the Chinatown lunar new year parade about Blasian identity & community organizing
Out-FM associate producer Pauline Park interviews Rohan Zhou-Lee on being of Black and Asian descent.
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Queer Asian-Pacific Islander (API) History; and Murder of Sakia Gunn Commemoration By Newark NJ LGBTQ Center
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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., October 10, 2023 from 8:00-9:00 pm EDT, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY
or listen live at https://www.wbai.org/
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"Queer API History: Why It's Vitally Relevant for Today's Struggle for Social Justices in the United States and Beyond."
From "Farewell My Concubine"
Few people -- even in the LGBTQ/queer Asian/Pacific Islander (API) community -- know the long history of people in the Asia/Pacific region who anticipate contemporary LGBTQ identities. This history should be of far more than academic interest and of interest far beyond the queer API community. It goes to the heart of the strategy that LGBTQ communities of color and human rights activists can and should use in challenging homophobic and transphobic reactionaries both in the United States and in the Asia/Pacific region.
On this program, transgender activist Pauline Park will engage in a conversation with Out-FM about this fascinating hidden history and how it can be used to illuminate contemporary debates and inspire effective action to advance a progressive agenda of social justice and social change. For more on trans history, go to Pauline's website.
Pauline Park at Philidelphia Pride 2009
Murder of Sakia Gunn Commemoration By Newark NJ LGBTQ Center
Naomi Brussel interviews Denise Hinds, President, and Beatrice Simpkins, Executive Director, of the Newark LGBTQ Center about the commemoration of the 2003 murder of 15-year-old lesbian Sakia Gunn, planned for October 28th, 2023. They talk about the impact of this killing on the Newark queer community then and now.
The “Sakia, Sakia, Sakia, Sakia” mural along the McCarter Highway was painted by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh in memory of Sakia Gunn in 2016 as a part of the Newark downtown district’s Gateways to Newark initiative, “Portraits.”
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