The Limits of Transnationalizing Homonationalism in/for Palestine

Jasbir K. Puar posits that pinkwashing is one manifestation made possible“ within and because of homonationalism” (Puar 2013, 337). This article challenges this assumption through a critical examination of Palestinian anticolonial-queer critiques of pinkwashing by alQaws: for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society and Pinkwatching Israel. Foregrounding these
critiques, this article argues that transnationalizing homonationalism in the context of Palestine limits the conditions of possibility for engaging Palestine liberation queerly. Through a critical reading of Puar’s analysis in relationship to Palestine liberation and pinkwashing, this article asks how do we, outside of
Palestine, want to transnationalize how to learn from Palestine as a place of/for transnational feminist and queer scholarship and struggle? And, how might an attentiveness to Palestinian critiques emerging from within the Palestinian context impact transnational feminist scholarship on homonationalism and
Palestine liberation?