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Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back

by Dean Spade
Queer activists fight against the Israeli pinkwashing propaganda in their community and provide a strategic primer on intersectional social justice activism.
2015  ·  56m  ·  United States
English
About the Film

“Pinkwashing” is a term activists have coined for when countries engaged in terrible human rights violations promote themselves as “gay friendly” to improve their public image. Israel is the country most famous for this strategy, having initiated it as part of a rebranding campaign in which has been engaged in for the last decade to distract from the human rights abuses it is committing against Palestinians. Made in Seattle, on Duwamish Land, PINKWASHING EXPOSED: SEATTLE FIGHTS BACK! explores how pinkwashing works and what activists are doing to fight back.

In 2012, activists in the Pacific Northwestern region of the US responded to an Israeli Consulate-funded pinkwashing tour that featured gay and lesbian Israeli activists. Local queer Palestinian solidarity activists exposed the “Rainbow Generations” tour as pro-Israel propaganda, resulting in the cancellation of some of the events, including the tour’s centerpiece event hosted by the City of Seattle’s LGBT Commission. A significant backlash ensued involving the Seattle City Council and Seattle’s leading LGBT and HIV organizations.

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Editor
Amy Mahardy
Videographer
Wu Tsang
Producer
Amy Mahardy and Basil Shadid
Sound Editor
Alec Dippie and Lynne Trepanier
Soundtrack Composer
Julie MatsonAlec DippieLynne Trepanier

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