Placards Against Pinkwashing 🏳️‍🌈 🪧

Name: Placards Against Pinkwashing 🏳️🌈 🪧
Start: 2025-09-09T18:30:00+02:00
Location: 67, Strait Street, Valletta, Malta

Schedule

Tue, 09 Sep, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

67, Strait Street, Valletta, Malta | Valletta, MA

🌈 Join us for a discussion on pinkwashing and a workshop on making placards! 🌈
📅 On Tuesday 9th September, Moviment Graffitti is organising a queer placard making event. This activity is part of the events during Pride week and the placards can be used during the Pride march on Saturday. The activity will be held at our premises, 67 Strait Street, Valletta and will start at 6.30 p.m.
🎨 The theme of the event is pinkwashing which refers to the practice of using LGBTQ+ rights and symbols to hide or justify systems of oppression or injustice.
🗣️ The activity will start with three short informal presentations about the three themes: The genocide in Palestine, LGBTIQ+ Migrants, and Business Corporations. There will be some time for questions, clarifications and discussion. The second part will be dedicated to making the placards on the three themes. We will provide the materials for the placards. 🗣️
✊ The aim of this event is to challenge the use of LGBTQ+ struggles as a branding tool for states and businesses that continue to perpetuate exploitation and oppression. Through the messages on the placards we make, we want to denounce pinkwashing, and to express genuine solidarity with Palestinians, migrants, and all oppressed communities beyond rainbow capitalism.
💖 Please join us for this fun and informative event and bring your friends along!
📢 Background: Israel has long promoted itself as a queer-friendly state to obscure its ongoing genocide and occupation of Palestinians as well as the harassment and bullying of Palestinian members of the LGBTIQ+ community. Similarly, multinational corporations use Pride symbolism to present themselves as queer friendly while continuing to profit from unethical practices, the exploitation of workers and policies which do not benefit members of the LGBTIQ+ community. In Malta, pinkwashing also intersects with the realities of migration: queer and trans migrants are often celebrated as symbols of diversity, yet in practice, many face detention, racism, and repatriation policies.