Pride special bookclub
Café Saarein,
Elandsstraat 119-HS,
Amsterdam
We will read Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah (2025), alongside Chapter 4 of Gloria Wekkerâs White Innocence (2016), âOf Homo Nostalgia and (Post)Coloniality: Or, Where Did All the Critical White Gay Men Go?â
In this Pride special, we are warming up towards WorldPride in Amsterdam by asking what it means to insist that Pride remains political. While Stichting Pride Amsterdam states that âweâre in a phase where gay activism no longer needs to focus mainly on politicsâ (https://pride.amsterdam/en/organisatie/geschiedenis/
), this session starts from the a different premise: that Pride is inseparable from the political and historical conditions that shape it.
Bringing Wekkerâs critique of Dutch racial innocence into conversation with a text on Palestine and global structures of imperialism, we explore how queer visibility, national self-image, and colonial displacement are entangled rather than separate.
The session will be divided into two parts: a collective discussion of the readings, followed by a poster-making workshop in which we translate our discussion into posters for public space during WorldPride 2026 in Amsterdam.
Note on language: the discussion will take place primarily in English, with Dutch discussion possible in smaller groups. Wekkerâs book is also available in Dutch translation, and posters may be made in a language of choice.
For participation send a mail to saareinevenementen@gmail.com