Sure, there’s an orientalist discourse about Qatar (just as there is about all of West and South Asia). But there’s also a postcolonial, left, and queerfeminist lens at work in the critiques of ultra-capitalism, migrant labor exploitation and deaths, petro-states, and the absence/limited nature of queer, trans, and women’s freedoms. Western orientalism and uncritical “Global South” solidarity (which scarcely even applies here: this is a Global North state in economic terms) are emphatically *not* the only possible political positions. #poco #petrostates #migrantrights #lgbtqrights #postcolonialism #critiquebeforesolidarity #orientalism

Sure, there’s an orientalist discourse about Qatar (just as there is about all of West and South Asia). But there’s also a postcolonial, left, and queerfeminist lens at work in the critiques of ultra-capitalism, migrant labor exploitation and deaths, petro-states, and the absence/limited nature of queer, trans, and women’s freedoms. Western orientalism and uncritical “Global South” (which scarcely even applies here: this is a Global North state in economic terms) solidarity are emphatically *not* the only possible political positions. #poco #petrostates #migrantrights #lgbtqrights #postcolonialism #critiquebeforesolidarity #orientalism

Sure, there’s an orientalist discourse about Qatar (just as there is about all of West and South Asia). But there’s also a postcolonial, left, and queerfeminist lens at work in the critiques of ultra-capitalism, migrant labor exploitation and deaths, petro-states, and the absence/limited nature of queer, trans, and women’s freedoms. Western orientalism and uncritical “non-Western” (which scarcely even applies: this is a Global North state in economic terms) solidarity are emphatically *not* the only possible political position. #poco #petrostates #migrantrights #lgbtqrights #postcolonialism #critiquebeforesolidarity #orientalism