Israeli Gay Tourist Initiatives and the (In)visibility of State Violence

Jennifer Lynn Kelly is assistant professor of feminist studies and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her PhD in American studies with a portfolio in women’s and gender studies from University of Texas at Austin, her master’s degree in interdisciplinary humanities from New York University, and her bachelor’s degree in feminist studies and literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism, US empire, and the fraught politics of both tourism and solidarity. She is currently completing the manuscript for her first book, a multi-sited ethnographic study of solidarity tourism in Palestine.