Step 1: Donate to Sameer here (sugg. donation $40)

Step 2: Register for “On Blackmail and Other Settler Colonial Technologies in Occupied Palestine” here

In this workshop, scholar and organizer Khalil will discuss technologies of control, discipline and surveillance in the context of occupied Palestine, as well as their implications for other colonial contexts.

Expanding on the established discourses of "pinkwashing" in the context of the israeli occupation, Khalil will discuss the use of blackmail as a settler-colonial technology specifically wielded against queer, disabled, and other minority groups within Palestine.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and draw connections between technology and settler colonialism in their day to day observations and experiences, as well as discuss how we can fight back against these carceral infrastructures in practical ways.

Khalil is a Moroccan-French artist and PhD candidate in Security, Conflict, and Human Rights at the University of Exeter researching "Blackmail, Framing, and Technological Practices" in the Palestinian context. Khalil's research seeks to highlight the continued use of blackmail in Israeli settler-colonialism as a technique of control and is situated at the intersection of settler colonial studies, queer studies and critical security studies, and seeks to utilize investigative aesthetics (visuality and visualization) as a means’ of producing knowledge.