During June, Pride month teaches us to embrace the whole of humanity within diverse expressions of love. Learning how to be free is a lifelong and human journey and Arabs like other communities mos…
Code Pink Southeast LA marches in the Weho Pride Parade on Sunday, June 2. The group chose to highlight Palestinians and what they call the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. During June, Pride month teaches us to embrace the whole of humanity within diverse expressions of love. Learning how to be free is a lifelong and human journey and Arabs like other communities most often use the prism of family values to nurture identity.
Growing up outside of New York City, my high school art teacher and photographer/artist/citizen, Andrew Courtney, taught his students to be open to the world around us. He challenged us within the classroom and on field trips to New York City. Mr. Courtney frequently drove his blue Volkswagen van full of teenagers to Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim and Greenwich Village.
We may have trouble loving anyone else if we do not know how to love ourselves. Learning to accept oneself as part of humanity and not separate is essential to feeling free. And it’s okay to stumble through it. When combined with love of others it disrupts ignorance and fear to make room for acceptance of oneself, and by extension, love for what is strange or new.
So called liberals often use the rights of LGBTQ+ communities to conclude, without evidence, that Arabs are homophobic. It’s a silencing tactic called “pinkwashing” and also one that first demonizes. Subsequently, it dehumanizes all Arabs, leaving us vulnerable to more hate. It has been used to justify violence and the genocide against Palestinians. A defense of Palestinians comes from an unlikely place to call for proportion and the evolutionary continuum of rights.
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