This lecture explores the ways U.S.-led empire seeps into the lives and labor of feminist and queer activists of the Arab region and its diasporas. It focuses on the ways moments of intensive state violence, such as the Israeli bombing of Gaza and the U.S. government’s targeting of Palestinian American feminist Rasmea Odeh in 2014, have produced radical transformations within the analyses and visions of freedom among feminist and queer movements on the ground.
