Palestinian Liberation from a QTA Disability Justice Perspective

API Equality-LA believes our liberation as queer and trans Asians is tied to other communities impacted by global systems of oppression. We offer these reflections in hopes of activating other queer and trans Asians to move in solidarity with oppressed peoples from Gaza to Hawai‘i to the Congo to Sudan to Kashmir and beyond. 

As a grassroots organization, our focus is on serving queer and trans Asians in Southern California. However, we see our identities and experiences as politically connected to movements across constructed borders, walls, and lines of empire. Drawing on our guiding frameworks of Disability Justice, Transformative Justice, and Healing Justice, we offer the following series as an entry point for those who share these values and are seeking a political home and community. A liberated world is possible if we choose to build it together. We hope you will join us. 

To learn more about the connections between Disability Justice and Palestine, please check out others who have also shared analysis including Sins Invalid (@sinsinvalid), Project LETS (@projectlets), Imani Barbarin (@crutches_and_spice), and Alice Wong (@disability_visibility).