#brian whitaker

[winterpinetrees]

OC-tober Day 11: OC in love

My followers are so strong for tolerating a month of this on their dashes. I don’t know what proportions are.

[madho-lal-hussein]

“Lesbian invisibility does have some advantages. In the big cities of Egypt, two women living together as ‘flatmates’ would not arouse much curiosity, Laila said - though that would depend to some extent on their choice of district.

Neighbours would first of all want to establish whether they were prostitutes and would probably quiz the bawwab, the doorman who watches all comings and goings in Egyptian blocks of flats. If satisfied on that count, they might then imagine other explanations for the girls’ presence – quarrels with parents, etc.

‘They would think of anything else but lesbianism,’ Laila said. She recalled how much one lesbian couple had been adored by their landlady. ‘I wish all my tenants were like you,’ the landlady told them, suspecting nothing.”

— Brian Whitaker “Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East” (University of California Press, 2006)

[barbadian-princess]

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@brianhwhittaker

[1aceinspace]

our dm made a character to keep our party on track and we decided on brian whittaker as his face claim and i wanted to try to draw this beautiful boy 0n0

[bookishmagpie]

The author of this crucial book, Arabs Without God, wants to give it away for FREE in Arabic: http://t.co/m2sxy5x1lM pic.twitter.com/d8MvNaLFKS

— IHEU (@IHEU) December 3, 2014 

The author, Brian Whitaker, is seeking to raise funds for the book to be translated into Arabic, and to make the Arabic version available on the internet for downloading and circulating free of charge.

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