Strange &Beautiful

bittersweet sweetheart, queerab diaspora kid

[missstrogen]

I've said this before but it bears repeating. You need to stop drowning yourself in irony and fake selves. Say something true and beautiful today or else.

[smsomah]

Yemen, 1980-2001. Scanned from the book Bedouin and Nomads: Peoples of the Arabian Desert; Etienne Dehau; 2007

[iamwizzzzz]

[modelsof-color]

Ikram Abdi Omar by Mattia Guolo for Haper's Bazaar Arabia Magazine February 2024

[milksockets]

'diadem with gazelles + a stag, egyptian (possibly eastern nile delta), second intermediate period, ca. 1648-1540 b.c.' in jewelry: the body transformed - melanie holcomb (2018)

[robert-hadley]

Cogne, Italy 1959. Photo by Pepi Merisio

[cityofbaghdad-blog]

haidar khana mosque; baghdad, 1932 (via the library of congress)

[benoistj]

Through the Olive Trees (1994) dir : Abbas Kiarostami

[tanyushenka]

 A 67-year-old Palestinian man in the Dehaishe refugee camp displays the original key and title deeds to the home his family abandoned when they fled their village in the 1948 war in Israel. West Bank, 2001. @  David Silverman

[acquired-stardust]

Pokemon Crystal Gameboy Color 2000

[nightmarereverie]

[rosieandthemoon]

[modelsof-color]

Anok Yai at The 2026 Met Gala

[modelsof-color]

Wenli Zhao by Ryan Tandya for Número Netherlands Magazine May 2026

[smsomah]

Egyptian silver fish fertility pendant, circa 1913

Coins and fish commonly represent abundance and prosperity. In Egypt's Abu el-Numrus region, fish-shaped pendants were especially popular and were likely crafted by local Egyptian Jewish jewelers.

[mollybeenoel]

[theinternetarchive]

front and back covers of modern pink magazine, a gay magazine from the late 1980s–1990s. vol. 1 issue 7, 1989.