2017 year in review Pauline Park 2017 may have been a disastrous year for the country, with the election of Donald Trump, but for me personally, it was a year of progress and growth. Trump’s election and new administration dominated the news throughout 2017, but happily, neither had any direct impact on my life. Activism […]
Joan of Arc & the uses & misuses of history: LGBT/queer historiography by Pauline Park The writing of transgender and queer history is an important component of the project of transgendering the academy, but it is one fraught with peril, conceptual and otherwise. The peril is particularly apparent when activists engage in the writing of […]
Norway: the trip of a lifetime to the land of my father’s Viking ancestors by Pauline Park Norway has always had a special place in the imaginary of my mind; it is first of all the land of my father’s Viking ancestors; it is secondly one of the most progressive countries in the world, […]
Steven Salaita and the Quagmire of Academic Freedom BY JAKE FLANAGIN New York Times OCTOBER 2, 2014 11:49 AM Op-Talk Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune, via Getty Images Steven G. Salaita says the University of Illinois destroyed his career. The Palestinian-American professor was invited to teach in the university’s American Indian studies program earlier this year, but the […]
Queens Pride House, the transgender support group and the diversity of gender identity by Pauline Park I have been involved with Queens Pride House since I worked with several other members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community of Queens to co-found the organization in 1997. Since 2012, I have served as coordinator of […]
DNC follies: a Latino, a Muslim & a transgendered Zionist enter a room… Babs Casbar Siperstein’s expulsion from the Democratic National Committee is a tale told of an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying something, though what precisely requires considerable explanation. Babs Siperstein has been described as ‘the highest-ranking trans person in Democratic Party’ […]
Europe 2017: Norway Iceland Spain I spent five weeks in Europe in 2017, two in Norway, two in Spain and one in Iceland; it was the longest trip of my life, exceeding even the four weeks I spent in Korea in June and July 2015; these are some of my photos of the trip and […]
Zionists use false charges of anti-Semitism to silence people of color in the Palestine solidarity movement by Pauline Park I have been thinking about how to respond to Rafaella Gunz and her personal attack on me and my Palestine solidarity activism (Rafaella Gunz, “This transgender Jew is tired of the anti-Semitism in the LGBTI […]
Norrøn sjamanisme og seiðr: profeten taler Pauline Park Jeg vil gjerne snakke om Norge før kristendommen – vikingenes Norge. Jeg vil gjerne beskrive vikingenes verden – den hedenske åndeligheten som var kulturen i Norge før Olav Tryggvason ble konge fra 995-1000 og tvang nordmenn til å konvertere til kristendommen. Før Olav ble konge var Norge et hedensk land og tok del […]
LGBT rights & progressive politics in the age of Trump Pauline Park at Kingsborough Community College 29 March 17 I’m honored by the invitation to speak to you today at this ‘Dinner & Dialogue’ event. I’d like to begin by thanking Lauren Ferguson for helping to arrange my visit here, my second time at Kingsborough […]
GID & the pathologization of transgender identity Pauline Park, Ph.D. On a beautifully sunny day in April 2004, I joined half a dozen members of the Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY) at the Manhattan offices of “Details,” a men’s magazine that had published an offensive feature entitled “Gay or Asian?” […]
Creating Change or pinkwashing Israeli apartheid: A Wider Bridge to Zionist propagandizing by Pauline Park I have attended 13 Creating Change conferences, but the 28th Creating Change in Chicago in January 2016, which I did not attend, will be remembered as perhaps the most controversial of them all (Matt Simonette and Gretchen Hammond, “Creating […]