Week 15

In “Reflections of a Gender Palestinian American Lesbian Mother,” Huda Jadallah talks about how being a Palestinian and a lesbian mother creates some challenges in the society. She mentions that there is a lot of the time where she would be mistaken for an Arab man in the bathrooms and other public settings, because Arab men are being portrayed as the close mind, abusive, sexist and rapist. In fact, she also talks about how her two sons will fight in public and she will be ashamed because people might think that her sons are being taught how to be violent from a young age.In other words, Jadallah talks about how her being Genderqueer sometimes it seems as a sexual predator because she looks like a man and has two kids. That is why, she feels like an outsider and not belonging in her community of family because of her gender, but there is an abuse community that she goes to where she can find herself and has a sense of belonging.