Drag artists are defying corporate media censorship to uplift the Palestinian liberation struggle.
At a recent pageant at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Palestinian drag artist Mama Ganuush emerged onto the stage in a chain mail-and-mesh dress. As Gaza’s museums lie in rubble from Israeli bombs, cultural spaces like this in the United States have become battlefields in their own way, in a war involving several factions: Zionist funders, free speech activists and pro-Palestinians artists, to name a few.
“‘Queer’ means you’re radically supporting liberation for all people,” Ganuush said. “That’s what queer activism is for me.” And likewise, “drag in general is, for me, a form of a protest. It’s a ‘fuck you’ to social norms.”on December 2 — a die-in that shut down the busy Castro intersection for 45 minutes, while 100 or so queer and trans people got down on the asphalt as others moved between their bodies, outlining them with white sidewalk chalk.
Ganuush said they have long been engaged in the Palestinian liberation struggle, but their commitment intensified as they watched the Israel-inflicted genocide unfolding late last year. Since October, they’ve been active not only on stage but also behind the megaphone at protest marches that bring out tens of thousands of people in the Bay Area.
cast members who have taken a stand on Palestine is long, with several winners of the competition show publicly signing on to thealigned themselves with the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement Traditional, corporate media outlets so often pass the microphone to nonprofit executives and politicians — voices for the status quo who are quick to step in line to support genocide. Now, Bunny uses her platforms to call out the hypocrisy of politicians and organizations such as the HRC. “I don’t think they’ve been setting an agenda that speaks to me in any way,” she said.
Jizz broadcast her first events online during quarantine in 2020, when every drag venue in the city was shut down. Four years later, some of those longstanding gay bars and clubs are no longer with us, but Reparations lives on, with a “come one, come all” vibe — tickets are free if you’re BIPOC and trans or disabled — that centers local queens rather than names associated with “Drag Race.” She spoke withover Zoom on March 5, the day that a TV show in which she co-stars premiered.
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