Video: QAIA w. Haneen Maikey + Saadia Toor on Islamophobia

 On October 25, QAIA joined with Haneen Maikey and Saadia Toor for a conversation about Islamophobia and pinkwashing -- and a fundraiser for al Qaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestine.  Here's the video! This conversation will be the basis for thinking about our work going forward -- and for many more conversations. Please join us! Please donate to Al Qaws' critical decolonizing work at their website...

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Video: QAIA & Sarah Schulman at the LGBT Center

On March 11, 2013, QAIA hosted Sarah Schulman for a reading at the LGBT Center -- the event that the Center had banned. The ban raised such an outcry that the Center was finally forced to deal with it... Here is the whole event!...

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Connecting pinkwashing + NYC Islamophobia

QAIA cosponsored "Jewish Responses to Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism" this week, organized by Jews Against Islamophobia. The event a Congregation Beth Simchat Torah was "a roundtable conversation about how we can strengthen our work as Jews committed to challenging Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism. We hope the conversation will help us think more deeply about how we can most effectively engage as partners and allies in one of the most pressing and important civil and human rights issues of our time."...

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