In Search of Self: a Study of Queer Arab Women

In the United States Post Migration by Lexi Haddad

Cross-dressing in Photographs of 1920s and 1930s Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon X

i can't believe the show about characters being gay and problematic won't let the characters be gay and problematic

The canon queer character of the day is:

Frankie Stein from the Monster High franchise, who is non-binary.

The two types of morning people

Queer, Palestinian-Syrian American (me, lol) at the November 4th, 2023 March on Washington for Gaza ❤️‍🔥🇵🇸

‼️Queer SWANA people exist‼️

‼️Queer Palestinians exist‼️

‼️Liberation for all means liberation for ALL‼️

🗣️ FREE FREE PALESTINE 🗣️

Linktree contains dozens of resources I’ve compiled in advocacy, action, education, mutual aid, and more regarding Palestine, Sudan, the DRC, Tigray, & Yemen. Hope to add more with time as well ❤️‍🔥✊🏼 love and solidarity folks 🇵🇸

fun that skam was like here are all these female centred storiessss and also a gay man. Real asf

Kelma Association

Type : Non-profit

Founder : Fouad Ziraoui

Mission : to bring together Maghreb homosexuals around cultural and convivial activities,raising awareness for Maghreb LGBTQ+ members.

Year of foundation : 1996

Country : France

Website :web.archive.org/web/20040618064658/http://www.kelma.org/

Kelma was a non-profit organization for gay muslims & queer immigrants of North African origin (including Egypt,Libya,Algeria, Tunisia,Western Sahara,Morocco,Mauritania, Somalia,Mali,Djibouti). In Arabic Kelma means ''Word''. The organization's activities are miscellaneous.Many of its members preferred to remain strictly anonymous,for the fear of exclusion from their own family and communities.

Kelmahgreb - Mahgreb's first online gay magazine was launched by Kelma. The site was a hub of various informations, leisure, discussion forums for North African/ethnic gays and gay muslims.The site has been subject to censorship in Morocco,Algeria & Tunisia.

History

In 1996, Algerian gay activist Fouad Ziraoui founded the Kelma association.Its primary purpose was the visibility of gays of North African origin & the fight against the ostracism within broader population.Since 1997, it became known for the organization of the Black Blanc Beur (BBB) evenings in Paris at the Folies Pigalle.Kelma and its BBB evenings were aimed in particular at North African & Black gays who do not know where to turn.North Africans gays were in fact not only victims of the distrust of their neighborhoods and their families, but also of discrimination in more “classic” Parisian nightclubs. Gradually Kelma association refocused its activities to meet the needs of its members and more interested in the conviviality of the party than LGBTQ activism.[citation needed]

Kelma was reluctant to engage in pride parades, as its members wished to avoid attention from broader population.However, they participated in the fight against AIDS among North African homosexuals in France.Kelma also raised awareness on various things, including the situation of LGBTQ in Maghreb.Kelma Association were among the first to spread information about 2001's Queen Boat incident that took place in Cairo,Egypt.

The Transgressive Nature of Undeath in Fantasy

I am about to be… the most on my shit.

I think, in the fantasy genre, that undeath is a transgressive and almost-queer phenomena that is underutilized in terms of its uniquely magical and surreal nature. We have movies like Night of the Living Dead but even then undeath in fantasy feels unique and it gives off its own vibes.

I wanna start by talking about Those Who Live In Death from Elden Ring. These undead are like this purely by virtue of their choice not to die completely. Or even their inability to. Death in Elden Ring is meant to be followed by Erdtree burial which in turn leads to reincarnation. But Those Who Live In Death often simply haven’t undergone erdtree burial. Especially in a chaotic and war torn land like the Lands Between this seems like a simple mistake. And yet they are ground upon. They’re hunted and persecuted. Sorcerer Rogier puts it best when he describes them as "stumbling upon a flaw in the Golden Order". It's not their fault.

And I think this is the kind of undeath that resonates with me the most. Full disclosure, I am a trans woman, and I'm not really doing research. This is going off of vibes mostly. And I think that oftentimes--especially when undead are shown as more than puppets of some "greater force"--undeath is considered more of a transgressive state of being. And to me there is something inherently trans--not just transgressive--about becoming changing your form and presentation slightly in ways that sometimes aren't even noticeable. Think of vampires, and how some are more monstrous and some are indistinguishable from living persons. And often times undeath is considered simply unacceptable, like in Elden Ring where Those Who Live In Death are roundly kept as outsiders, even to the Haligtree where at most we see Black Knife assassins who are only sometimes related to Those Who Live In Death, but not inherently a part of them.

What I'm trying to say is that, especially with the release of Elden Ring, I've been consistently thinking of undeath differently. Yeah, there have been stories of queerness through the lenses of vampirism or lycanthropy. And I do count vampires as undead. But I think there is something untapped in the transition from being alive to being undead.

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i have a mutual who will call me out when i am following someone bad which is great! but he was like “how can you forgive this palestinian person for having been a progressive zionist before” and i’m like...........listen. i know NOW he’s apparently faking being palestinian but i, a white jew from america, am not about to tell a palestinian how they are allowed to cope with zionists lol. if he had REALLY been palestinian in the diaspora then realizing zionists couldn’t be reasoned with is a natural and understandable course but i’m not gonna write him off completely for initially thinking otherwise ???

i mean apparently he’s not actually palestinian so i blocked but like. if he HAD BEEN who am i to police someone’s feelings about their own oppression lmao???

here is a thought: instead of sending a tumblr user you like a badge or crabs or whatever, you could tip that tumblr user directly to their kofi or buy a commission or something from their store, idk, just be more direct. hell, send them a funny meme or make them a playlist if you dont have funds to share. i know you want tumblr to stay afloat but they should learn we wont pay them for changes they make to their site/app we dont like

Nov 2022

Gay Qataris have been promised safety from physical torture in exchange for helping the authorities to track down other LGBTQ+ people in the country, a prominent Qatari doctor and gay rights campaigner has told the Guardian. Dr Nasser Mohamed, who lives in the US but retains contact with hundreds of gay Qataris, said that some secret networks had been compromised after arrests by Qatar’s preventive security department.

“A lot [of gay Qataris] don’t know about each other,” Mohamed said. “And it’s safer that way because when the law enforcement finds one person, they actively try to find their entire network. But some of the people who were captured and physically abused were then recruited as agents.

Mohamed told the Guardian that foreign gay fans in Qatar would not be persecuted while at the World Cup finals tournament. However, he warned that local LGBTQ+ supporters faced a very different reality. “What is it like to be an LGBT Qatari? You live in fear, you live in the shadows, you’re actively persecuted. You’re subjected to state-sponsored physical and mental abuse. It’s dangerous to be an LGBT person in Qatar.”

I am once again asking for podcast recommendations