We are THRILLED to be welcoming one of Canada’s foremost queer activists and scholars to St. John’s next week for two very special events! On Wednesday, October 16 from 6-8pm at Eastern Edge Gallery, join us for:

NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE!

Recently “No Pride in Genocide” has been raised by queer and trans activists against the complicity of many larger Pride Committees and mainstream LGBT+ groups in support of the active genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israeli state. Many Pride events across the country became the sites of important struggles with the theme of “No Pride in Genocide!” This is also linked back to organizing in 2021 with the theme of No Pride in Genocide against the genocide of Indigenous people on Turtle Island and settler colonialism. Drawing on the recently released Third Edition of the Regulation of Desire, activist and author Gary Kinsman will link queer and trans struggles against genocide and settler colonialism from Turtle Island to Palestine. Gary Kinsman (he/they) has been involved in Queers4Palestine-Toronto, Abolitionist Pride, the No Pride in Policing Coalition and is a supporter of the Coalition Against Pinkwashing. He/they are the author of The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles and the co-author of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation.

This free event sponsored and supported by Queers For Palestine (St. John’s), Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s Pride, Palestine Action YYT, MUN Dept. of Gender Studies, and Downtown Comics!

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Check out the separate event listing for The Regulation of Desire Book Launch – happening Thursday October 17 from 5-7pm at the Breezeway Bar at Memorial University!