Zoë Marks-Rowe had the potential to be a good writer and researcher. She wrote an interesting conference paper, which I think was politically urgent, about the politics of “pinkwashing” of Israel. In the discourse of travel and gender, Zoë’s research provoked a question of what it means to claim a space as ‘gay friendly’ and erase the facts of colonialism and violence. The paper examined pink washing through various perspectives, LGBT, tourism, and human rights discourses. Some important readings that we read in class, such as Edward Said, Ger Zielinski, and Jasbir Puar, were incorporated in a productive manner. The paper could have been easier to read with subheadings for different sections, but in general it had the potential to be developed
