[This article was written as a response to a recently published article by Maya Mikdashi and Jasbir Puar on the intersections and impasses between US centered pinkwashing and pinkwatch..
Heike Schotten and Haneen Maikey
Heike Schotten is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she teaches political theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She is the author, most recently, of “Reading Nietzsche in the Wake of the 2008-09 War on Gaza” (Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Spring 2012).
Haneen Maikey is the co-founder and director of alQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, and the co-founder of the independent activists group Palestinian Queers for BDS. She is the author of “The History and Contemporary State of Palestinian Sexual Liberation Struggle" (The Case for Sanctions Against Israel, Edited by Lim A., 2012)
