United Queers of Arabia

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[queerabs]

looking for a marriage of convenience please share my pinned post

Aight

[norainonmyway]

[queerabs]

marriage of convenience stories?

Share one

[gonilove]

I haven't seen anyone talk about this but yesterday 13.6.2020 Egyptian queer communist activist Sarah Hijazi committed suicide. In 2017 she was arrested for flying the rainbow flag and soon after being released she fled to Canada, where the distance from her homeland as well as the general hardships of living as an intersectionaly oppressed person eventually got the best of her.

Her suicide note reportedly ended with the line "world, you were terribly cruel, but I forgive."

Allah yerhama alshahida

Rest in power

[queerabs]

Gays in Jordan pleaaaase

!!!!!!

[queerabs]

Any queers in Glasgow, Scotland ?

i hope!!

[queerabs]

Any lesbians living in Abu Dhabi?

yessssss

[zhurme]

shoutout to my gay hijabis I see you and I love you

[shiraglassman]

pass it on

Psst, lbpq representation/girls loving each other romantically and/or sexually doesn’t inherently threaten representation for girls loving each other platonically. Lesbians have friends. Bi women have friends. We can be friends with straight lady characters, too! We have besties and sisters and moms and daughters and mentors and bosses and teammates.

Our presence in a story doesn’t magically wipe all traces of non-shippy girl relationships from the plot, and acting like it does just makes me feel like people think f/f love is a contaminant. Stop that.

[animatedamerican]

And this is yet another reason why it’s good to have more than two women characters in any one piece of fiction, so that if two of them are in a romantic relationship, either or both of them can also have platonic relationships with other women.

Decent female representation means more than one or two women having to represent the entirety of women’s behavior and experience.

[shiraglassman]

Completely correct. Mainstream media fiction doesn’t only have a women problem, it has a women-interacting-with-each-other problem. Think of all the fandoms where there’s “a girl” and a bunch of guys.

[elldritch-horror]

This is why I love the friendship between Rivka and Shulamit in @shiraglassman’s Mangoverse books! Plus, there’s bonus “you can be sexually/romantically attracted to someone who does not reciprocate, and still have a lovely, close, profound friendship without Angst and Woe”. Welcome to the Zone of Actual Friendship (as a contrast to the Friendzone)

[shiraglassman]

Thank you! And other queer lit has more f-f friendships involving wlw, such as the all-wlw friend groups in the historical fantasy series Alpennia by Heather Rose Jones (Daughter of Mystery, The Mystic Marriage, Mother of Souls, etc.) and the two heroines in Xan West’s contemporary Jewish romance Eight Kinky Nights, both of whose platonic friend groups are shown as a vital part of their emotional health.

It’s mostly in mainstream media properties where we get stuck with, if not “the” girl, “the only two” girls, leading to the problem @animatedamerican brought up. Love movies like Oceans 8 and Fabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn for not doing that!

[queerabs]

For the queer Arab ladies following us:

There’s a new group chat made by Dalia Alphagal, an Egyptian lesbian living in Sweden. To join it you can send her a message on Instagram. Her username is Dalia.alfaghal

[queerabs]

Lesbians above 20 in Riyadh?

i bet!

[teaboot]

Yoooooooooo not to bum y'all out, but a lot of stores are reopening rn so please don't forget that the pandemic isn't over, and gathering back into large groups as if it is will only skyrocket casualties, please continue limiting your social interactions

[queerabs]

any queer girls in London? x

like this if you live in london!

[queerabs]

anyone in sharjah uae?

i bet

[queerabs]

I’m in desperate need of Marriage of convince in Kuwait I’m a lesbian. Full Kuwaiti, looking for anyone that would be interested. Pls like this post. Things have been very hard with my family lately.

!!

[queerabs]

Any Omani 🏳️‍🌈 ?

!!

[queerabs]

So happy you’re back!!

thank youuuu! We’re happy to be back