queer palestinian short film: "houria"

queer short cuts is a biweekly newsletter where i share queer & trans short film recommendations. i’m featuring some of my favorite films on tumblr because why not

palestine | 7 minutes | 2010 | experimental short film audio in arabic; english subtitles embedded

houria | حـ(و)ـرية, an experimental film directed by raafat hattab, intercuts between a violinist (boodi el esawi) playing on a beach at manshiye who is joined unexpectedly by a mermaid (played by raafat hattab himself), a person getting their chest tattooed, and an interview with hattab’s grandmother, yousra, talking about her parents’ flight from their home in jamaseen al-garbi when she was a baby, during the 1948 nakba (“catastrophe”), during which thousands of palestinians were killed and an estimated 700,000 were displaced because of Israeli ethnic cleansing. The gender fluidity of hattab’s mermaid, the permanence of the tattoo, and the impermanence of palestinian life and homeland in yousra’s story come together to illustrate the paradoxes and grief of dislocation that palestinians face daily. - deepa's full review, including content notes at the end

watch on youtube, and learn more about creator raafat hattab, who is a queer palestinian interdisciplinary artist based in tel aviv, at his website

I want one of my fave twst boys to help me buzz my head, trying to make sure you didn't miss patches in the back by yourself is harder than you would think.

Rook and Jade would prob keep some of the hair.

Any of the first years would fuck it up but hey, to me it's still better than being forced to grow it out.

I ended up going to the store to pick up some stuff today and I complimented the checkout clerk because they had two pride buttons, and they said thanks and in my head I was like "man too bad I don't have any cool buttons or stickers they probably think I'm straight" and then I remembered that I'm a lady-adjacent person with a very short buzz cut and bright rainbow glasses, so I probably came across just fine actually.

Undercut was getting too high so Im starting over

Something something Sylki was important to the plot because it showed Loki learning how to love himself in a way and, in order to love others properly, he needed to do that first. Therefore (since he learned that loving is sacrifice and stayed behind at the TVA with Mobius this time), lokius might become canon later, Something something…

old pix. my kitchen is cleaner now. (not true.)

Absolutely no reason for the lip bite.

hey YRF if John and SRK don't have a homoerotic moment that sets the stage up for an AU hate f*ck at least once in this film just so we can fully cement the latter's consistently rumored sexuality i'm suing for damages

I'm not sure if i have anyone to ask so i got a question regarding Good Omens season 2 here

i'm asking pretty much:

Does the second season of Good Omens get better?

Like: i watched the first episode and felt disappointed given how well written and throughrough the first season was. And the second season in the very first episode felt as if it was lacking.

Dad, who i was watching it with, thought it wasn't good. And he's one of those people who can actually tell if a production is well done, bad or just mid. (and He thought the first season was good and enjoyed it even tho he dislikes when authors play around religions in fiction as he finds it mocking toward religions.)

Maybe it was a mistake to re/watch the first season hours before watching the second one, but honestly i'm unsure whether i should watch it further, i might simply skip it? In this case for me the fandom fun is not important, i just want it to be actually good and as thought through as the first season, and i fear it is not the case.

I really hope that, as I start presenting more masc and being more obviously genderqueer, I am to someone what that cool butch at day camp was to me all those years ago.

A sign that YEAH- you can do that, if you want. You can be masculine if you want, yes eve if you’re a woman, even if the world reads you as a woman. And not only can you do it, it looks COOL and you should, if you want.

I want to be someone else’s Nancy. That grown up who tells a young tomboy who’s constantly being put down for her gender presentation that yeah. Adults do this, too. And you CAN be whatever you want.

queer short film: "راكب راكب إنترنت | wifi rider"

queer short cuts is a biweekly newsletter where i share queer & trans short film recommendations. i'm featuring some of my favorite films on tumblr because why not

jordan | 13 minutes | 2020 | documentary short audio in arabic; english subtitles embedded

راكب راكب إنترنت | wifi rider, directed by roxy rezvany, introduces us to shukri lawrence, a young, queer palestinian-armenian fashion designer and photographer. shukri, who was born in east jerusalem and now lives in jordan, came to fame through his instagram account @wifirider, which he created as a teenager to share his style, fashion, and takes on pop culture. the film, shot on 16mm, also integrates footage from shukri’s early life as well, with shukri’s voiceover to tell us about his story and the clothing label named trashy clothing that he founded with his co-designer omar braika, who is also palestinian. the displacement and threat of state violence that shukri faces is felt throughout the docu-short; he begins by telling us how as a child he dreamed of moving to france, where he thought he would find freedom from his experience in israel. however, over the course of his adolescence, shukri began to understand that while he, like all palestinians currently, has no real home, he prefers his life to still be grounded in the arab world where he still has community in the palestinian diaspora. - deepa's full review, including content notes at the end

you can also find more of director roxy rezvany's work on her website!

Crying through existential dread, chronically ill, and trying to finish multiple work assignments while grappling with your transness?

WELL JUST GO AND GET A HOT HAIRCUT WITH A SHAVED SIDE THEN

SEDUCE YOURSELF

turning 27 in five days and the existential dread told me to cut my hair

they/them

oops i did it again