#palestinian/indian lesbians???

[asapphicsunflower]

me and my gf just watched I Can’t Think Straight and it was so good :,)

#I love movies about lesbians #and they talked A LOT about palestine! #it’s on tubi if yall wanna watch too! #palestinian/indian lesbians??? #I mean come on!! #diary

[makingqueerhistory]

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

Mark Gevisser

More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide--and describe--the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. No social movement has brought change so quickly and with such dramatically mixed results. While same-sex marriage and gender transition are celebrated in some parts of the world, laws are being strengthened to criminalize homosexuality and gender nonconformity in others. As new globalized queer identities are adopted by people across the world--thanks to the digital revolution--fresh culture wars have emerged. A new Pink Line, Gevisser argues, has been drawn across the globe, and he takes readers to its frontiers. Between sensitive and sometimes startling profiles of the queer folk he's encountered along the Pink Line, Gevisser offers sharp analytical chapters exploring identity politics, religion, gender ideology, capitalism, human rights, moral panics, geopolitics, and what he calls "the new transgender culture wars." His subjects include a Ugandan refugee in flight to Canada, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, a lesbian couple campaigning for marriage equality in Mexico, genderqueer high schoolers coming of age in Michigan, a gay Israeli-Palestinian couple searching for common ground, and a community of kothis--"women's hearts in men's bodies"--who run a temple in an Indian fishing village. What results is a moving and multifaceted picture of the world today, and the queer people defining it.

(Affiliate link above)

#gay history #lgbt history #lgbt #queer #queer history #transgender history #lesbian history #transgender #making queer history

[dear-indies]

hiya! 🧡 could i please get some help in finding some fc's of color who have resources playing a vampire? (who aren't from interview with the vampire, bc its gonna be an iwtc-centered oc) if not, just fc's you think would be great vampires! a woc is who i'm leaning towards, but im down for anyone of any age! thank you so much 🫶🏼

Angela Bassett (Vampire in Brooklyn) African-American.

Jacob Batalon (Reginald the Vampire) Filipino.

Kim Ji Woong (The Blood) Korean.

Michael Malarkey (The Vampire Diaries) part Palestinian.

Sisi Stringer (Vampire Academy) African Australian.

Rutina Wesley (True Blood) African-American.

Ami Tomite (Tokyo Vampire Hotel) Japanese.

Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Day Shift) Chinese / White.

and then:

Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952) Iranian.

D. B. Woodside (1969) African-American.

Gina Torres (1969) Afro-Cuban.

Hu Bing (1971) Korean.

Mahershala Ali (1974) African-American.

Daniel Wu (1974) Hongkonger.

Florence Kasumba (1976) Ugandan.

Omar Sy (1978) Mauritanian / Fula Senegalese.

Nonso Anozie (1979) Nigeiran - isn't a vampire in this but has the vibe in Dracula.

Maggie Q (1979) Vietnamese / White.

T'Nia Miller (1980) Afro Jamaican - is a lesbian.

Angelica Ross (1980) African-American - is trans.

Rami Malek (1981) Egyptian 12.5% Greek.

Fawad Khan (1981) Pashtun and Punjabi Pakistani.

Miyavi (1981) Japanese / Korean.

Riz Ahmed (1982) Pakistani.

Mahesh Jadu (1982) Bihari, Gorakhpuri and Kashmiri Indo-Mauritian.

Dichen Lachman (1982) Tibetan / German.

Kim Jae Wook (1983) Korean.

Cara Gee (1983) Ojibwe.

Florence Faivre (1983) Thai / French.

Nathalie Kelley (1985) Argentinian, Peruvian [Quechua, possibly other].

Amar Chadha-Patel (1986) Punjabi and Gujarati Indian.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (1986) African-American.

Jodie Turner-Smith (1986) Afro Jamaican.

Michaela Coel (1987) Ghanaian - is aromantic.

Lewis Tan (1987) Singaporean Chinese / White.

Desmond Chiam (1987) Chinese Singaporean.

Jim Sarbh (1987) Parsi Indian.

Anna Diop (1988) Senegalese.

Aiysha Hart (1988) Saudi Arabian / White.

Gregg Chillin (1988) Armenian and White.

Christina Chong (1989) Hongkonger / White.

Katy M. O'Brian (1989) African-American and White - is a lesbian.

Hannah John-Kamen (1989) Nigerian / Norwegian.

Steve Noh (1990) Korean.

Kim Yong Ji (1991) Korean.

Jennifer Cheon Garcia (1992) Korean / Mexican.

Jenny Zeng (1993) Chinese.

Song Kang (1994) Korean.

Jaz Sinclair (1994) African-American / White.

Ryan Destiny (1995) African-American.

Yumi Nu (1996) Japanese / White.

Wang Zi Yi (1996) Chinese.

Havana Rose Liu (1997) Chinese / White - is pansexual.

Lauren Tsai (1998) Taiwanese / White.

Here you go! Please let me know if you want something more specific.

#fc help #rph #rpc #vampire fc

[incomprehensiblelentils]

i need recommendations for some lesbian movies. My wife wants to watching something gay, but is tired of gay men's movies

oh gosh I am so sorry I'm just now getting to this - I was out of town the whole weekend and got back yesterday evening, when my brain was melting out my ears from the heat. without further ado!

I have categorized this list into a few sections:

Well-Made/"Good" Movies I Can Vouch For

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019): you have probably heard of this, but in case you haven't, it's a French historical drama about a painter who is commissioned to do a wedding portrait for a reluctant bride-to-be. It's lush, emotional, bittersweet, and breathtakingly shot. Content warnings: mention of a minor character's suicide, brief abortion scene featuring a secondary character, one scene of the leads doing drugs together.

Saving Face (2004): This is a lovely film about a young Chinese surgeon who is juggling her secret relationship with the drama her mother causes. Content warnings: intergenerational trauma.

Carol (2014): Again, you've probably heard of this one - it's another historical drama, this one based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt. A young aspiring photographer is captivated by a mysterious woman named Carol. After Portrait came out I find myself not as enamored of this one (I think Rooney Mara is not very good in it lmao), but it's a lovely film worth a watch. Content warnings: period-typical homophobia, Carol's shitty husband.

The Half of It (2020): From the director of Saving Face, this is a high-school coming of age movie inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac, in which a second-generation Chinese girl ends up volunteering to write love letters to her crush, "from" the jock who is also in love with said crush. Some really beautiful stuff about immigrant Chinese families in here, and I was really touched by the friendship between the two leads. Content warnings: racism, homophobia, bullying, intergenerational trauma.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017): This is based on the life of William Marston, creator of Wonder Woman, and his partners Elizabeth and Olive. I am given to understand that the relationship between the two women was probably not romantic IRL, but I really love the way the movie treats both the triad and the women as a couple. I also think the BDSM stuff is cute. Content warnings: age gap/power differential romance (two professors and their TA), homophobia including a brief violent attack, brief cancer subplot towards the end of the film.

Summerland (2020): A WWII movie about the bond between a reclusive writer and the young boy she is reluctantly forced to care for due to the London evacuations. I will spoil this for you because it gave me severe anxiety: the lesbians both live to the end, and they get to raise their son together! My main complaint is not enough Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Content warnings: WWII imagery/setting, parent death (offscreen but significant part of the plot), brief child peril.

The Favourite (2018): This is a weird little black comedy about two cousins who are vying to be the favored paramour of Queen Anne in 18th century Britain. It's some fun fucked-up drama. Content warnings: animal abuse/death (toward the end of the film), manipulation, non-consensual drugging.

I Can't Think Straight (2008): I haven't seen this one since college but I remember liking it - it's about two women, one Palestinian and one Indian, who meet and fall in love despite unlikely circumstances. Content warnings: cheating (one character is engaged to a man).

V For Vendetta (2005) - in case you forgot, this has lesbians! Content warnings: torture, attempted sexual assault, hanging, child death, panic attack, homophobia/dead lesbians

Birds of Prey (2020) - Harley Quinn is canonically bisexual! Also I love this movie. Content warnings: cartoonish violence, graphic torture including of a child, child death (implied/heard), implied sexual assault by the villain (of a minor character).

Booksmart (2019): High school comedy about two best friends who decide they're sick of being dweebs and want to go to a cool party before they graduate. I think it's largely delightful and I love the lesbian character's story. However, the subplot with the teacher who has sex with her (19yo) student is BAD and I won't defend it, nor will I judge anyone for wanting to skip based on that. Content warnings: extended non-con drugged sequence (played for laughs/nothing bad happens to them), aforementioned age gap/power differential romance (secondary characters).

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999): Clea Duvall and Natasha Lyonne star in a satire of conversion therapy camps, also featuring young Dante Basco. Personally I think it keeps things light and silly enough not to trigger me with the religious rhetoric. Content warnings: conversion camp setting and corresponding conservative Christian rhetoric, general homophobia, uh, RuPaul is here at one point?

In the Heights (2021): This movie is very much not perfect, chiefly for the colorism in the casting choices. BUT I like that Daniela and Carmen are gay now. Content warnings: racism, prejudice against undocumented individuals, grandparent death.

Movies I Think You Should Watch Maybe - Are They Good? I Couldn't Say!

D.E.B.S. (2004): This is a deeply silly movie about an all-girls' spy school in which the star pupil falls in love with international supercriminal Lucy Diamond, directed by queer icon Angela Robinson and featuring lesbian grandma Holland Taylor as the headmaster. Content warnings: cartoonish (PG-13) gun violence.

Imagine Me & You (2005): This was baby's first f/f movie for me, and so it has a very special place in my heart even though it is Problematic because it's about a lady cheating on her husband with Lena Headey, and also nobody remembered bisexuality exists so they say "lesbian" pretty exclusively and that sucks. Lena Headey and Piper Perabo are so good together though, and I genuinely like everyone in this movie. Content warnings: cheating (one character is married to a man).

Happiest Season (2020): Do not @ me this is MY movie!!! Kristen and Mackenzie are PERFECT. Content warnings: homophobia, manipulative behavior, one weirdly intense interrogation scene with mall cops that frankly should've been cut, mentioned fish death.

A Simple Favor (2018): This movie...it is batshit. If you like trashy drama, you will probably like this movie! Linda Cardellini plays a lesbian artist and I love her so much. Content warnings: manipulation, murder, incest (adult half-siblings not raised together), intense discussion of murder-suicide, gun violence

The Falling (2014): This movie is also batshit and not good, but I need more people to watch it, because I've seen it four times and I have no idea what it's trying to say. It features Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh as British boarding school teens who have an intense "friendship" and then suddenly everyone in the school starts having collective fainting spells. Please, I just need to find the person out there who gets what this movie is doing so they can explain it to me. Content warnings: unexplained medical issues (fainting), seizures, incest (consensual? sex scene), attempted suicide, grief, discussion of sexual assault and trauma therein (secondary character)

A New York Christmas Wedding (2020): This movie is ALSO batshit in a completely different way than the other two, and again, I need someone to explain it to me. It's, uh, sort of It's a Wonderful Life but with a bisexual heroine, and some batshittery along the way? Content warnings: suicide (secondary character), teen pregnancy, weird pro-life vibes, parent death, way too much church, homophobia, Chris Noth

Movies I Haven't Yet Seen Which Have Been Recc'd To Me

Crush (2022)

Pariah (2011)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

Fear Street Trilogy (2021)

The Handmaiden (2016)

#mrdistracted #sometimes I watch movies

[tsunflowers]

oh I meant to talk about the nonfiction book I read recently that was interesting but pissed me off. it was "the pink line" by mark gevisser. even after finishing the book I still don't know 100% what he means by the pink line but I think it's essentially like, when lgbt+ people start to demand rights based on their identities they are drawing a line and there will often be people on the other side of the line who oppose them. and globalization has impacted that greatly bc it used to be like "yeah we have a word for people like you" and now it's "I have the internet so I know the word gay and I know gay people in other countries have legal rights so why not me"

but he really turned me off with his "binarist" shit and then the weird implication at the end that he thinks therapists are just giving out meds to make your kids trans. those stood out to me the most but there were other things he implied or outright said where I was like "i just don't know about this one"

at the same time it was interesting to read a book that covered so many lgbt+ subcultures around the world and went fairly in depth on all of them. almost everyone he interviewed he kept in touch with for a period of several years so we saw the changes in their life and he had a closer connection than if he had simply interviewed them once. he interviewed Egyptian lesbians, Indian kothis, a Russian trans woman, trans teens in my own hometown of Ann Arbor, and gay and trans refugees from Uganda and Malawi. oh and Israeli and Palestinian guys in gay relationships in Tel Aviv, and Mexican lesbians with children. a lot of those groups are super specific so to read one book with personal anecdotes and research into all of them was worth it to me

maybe if you read it, just skip the personal essay chapters and only read the interview chapters lmao

#my book review corner

[iwantjobs]

4/24/2024: The problem with conservative Americans who don't understand the terrorists' point of views for they are humans too and God gave them have their own Islam land in the Middle-East. The terrorists said they won't harass America and hate America if America pulls out all their Christian -American troops out of their Islam land and they them deal with their own Islamic fighting among themselves. Plus, if conservative Americans hate terrorists and Muslims, don't do business with them by buying cheap oil from them--start digging your own oil in your American back ground. Very simple. I bought a cheap used Nissan Leaf to trot around since I was too hurt my a young lesbian Muslim at Starbucks. Also, if you use American tax payers' money to fund a genocide with your free 2,000lb bombs in Gaza where 35% of the population is children who never voted for the Hamas terrorists as their government by your best friend Israel who just crawled out of Nazi's gas camps and immediately started killing Palestinians, kicking them out, stealing their land, and shoving them into 2 areas of Israel with one area having no access to drinking water from the river demanding their ancient land back from 3,000 years ago while calling themselves democracy of equality and freedom. While you conservative Americans call yourself land of the free and equality in your American democracy. You conservative Americans win the Oscars for the biggest hypocrites in the history of mankind, next to Israelis, then Jews who support Israeli's taking back their ancient Jews land from 3,000 years ago in the name of the Torah while calling themselves victims of Nazis, civilized people, and all men are created equal religious words of Judaism. I, Trang, don't want to play with your conservative Americans anymore. I'll vote for your presidents and work to get MAGA people's money to protect the border. After this, I will relinquish your American citizenship eternally. Yes, I, Trang, might be an evil terrorist lover, evil Hamas terrorists lover, BUT I am not an evil genocider, evil land grabber, and evil colonizer. FYI, the Indians and the blacks would like to remind your conservative Americans that if you support colonialism of Palestinian land by the British and land grabbing work of the Israelis while placing Palestinian in an apartheid system with military and border wall fencing that prevent them from seeing their grandparents, the evilness of raping native Americans and black slaves by your American ancestors is the same as the evilness of the Hamas terrorists today. Yes the Hamas terrorists are animals to still acts so barbaric, but you conservative Americans are animals too to give 2,000lb bombs using our tax American money to bomb babies and children in Gaza who also defend their right to exist on their land of 400 years. Same evilness of the Hamas terrorists and you conservative Americans, except the Hamas terrorists are bad news from all angles, but you conservative Americans are bad news by back stabbing (the most evil enemy of all). You call yourselves civilized, equality, freedom, and you stab people in the back when people trust you. At least with the Hamas terrorists, I know to avoid them by running away from them to avoid being killed. Whereas in your American conservative democracy, you lure me in with your kindness of equality and freedom, and when I am not looking, you stab me near death for coming out as the female Buddha. What ever conservative Americans. Stop eating and sit on your potato couches, and get up to build more of your 2,000lb bombs and send them to Israel to bomb off thr Gazan babies and children to make your Jesus proud, because your Bible did tell you to return to the Holy land to rebuild your God's kingdom with the second of your Lord Jesus. I am off working as fast as I can as a crippled, mental, and semi-homeless to return to gook country assuming the gooks haven't been too gay-put; or Cambodia and Laos.

[thelesbianpoirot]

did they date men because rhey were forces to or willingly? sorry just tired of seeing bi women and their exbfs in movies so i gotta ask for my own sanity

I can't think straight is the life story of a real woman who identifies as a lesbian. One is Christian Palestinian who lived in Jordan and other is British Indian Muslim, they aren't shown to be sexual or romantic with the men, they just both think they have to have a man around. The men are barely characters, but they are there. Tala's thing is she almost gets married several times (before the story starts), and cancels the weddings, because she doesn't understand what is wrong with her, why can't she loved these "decent" men. It's up to you whether you see them as Bi. But yes, I do think a (they had boyfriends warning) should be there. In Yes or No, the femme girl is Bi (has a boyfriend), the tomboy never uses lesbian, but it may just be a cultural thing, but she is also a victim of homophobia, like verbal and ostracization so I can see her not feeling comfortable outwardly saying she's only interested in women, but she never shows any interest in men. In Kajillionaire, Gina Rodriguez's character is implied bi, you never see her interact sexually with a guy, the focus is Evan Rachel Wood's issues with her family and her budding feelings for Gina. She is definitely a lesbian.

#thelesbianpoirot

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.11 (after 1940)

1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. 1942 – World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force. 1944 – The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed by the Soviet Union. 1950 – CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. 1954 – In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam. 1958 – NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit. 1961 – The 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement is held in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, resulting in the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement. 1962 – The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years. 1968 – NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo mission. 1976 – George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies. 1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. 1984 – Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178. 1986 – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe. 1987 – The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. 1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die. 1991 – Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. 1999 – Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself. 2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission. 2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. 2002 – A bomb attack in a Myyrmanni shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven. 2010 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he will extend the settlement freeze if the Palestinian leadership recognizes Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinians quickly reject the offer. 2013 – A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 34 people drowning. 2018 – Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.

#Events

[riverdamien]

Coming Out Day--Oct. 11,2023

October 11, 2023

"So for anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation: the old order is gone, and a new being is there to see. It is all God's work". .2 Corinth.5:17."

Celebrated annually on October 11th, this day commemorates the journey of self-discovery and the courage it takes to openly embrace one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression. This observance traces its roots back to 1988, when Jean O’Leary and Dr. Robert Eichberg chose this date to coincide with the first anniversary of the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. National Coming Out Day now stands as a beacon of support and acknowledgement for those who have bravely shared their authentic selves with the world. It is also a reminder that many individuals within LGBTQIA+ communities face ongoing challenges in the journey towards self-expression.

Recently the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom said: "A man is a man, a woman is a woman," Uganda have made being queer illegal and thousands have been executed, and in our country politicians are saying anti-gay comments.

I have known countless men and women, of all ages who lived in the pain of rejection, isolation,  and struggling with their sexual orientation; I have been lucky I came to San Francisco, or I would have never found myself, and would have been a  lousy minister; I remember one fifteen year old who committed suicide in front of me, and many others who died from suicide--all because of their struggle with "coming out". "Coming out" is a very painful process, like giving birth to a new life. It took me years with much therapy  to feel comfortable with myself.

In God's family there are no outsiders. All are insiders.  Black and white, rich and poor, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender, questioning, brown, yellow, Jews, Palestinian, Roman Catholics, Independent Catholics, Buddhist, Hindus, Indian--all belong..

National Coming Out Day is a day in which all of us can come out and say that all of us are equal, and that LGBTQ individuals are simply human beings who are a part of the kaleidoscope of life.

The Trevor Project is supporting Queer Youth, and are finding that Transgenders are suffering more than ever before. We are walking "Forty Miles" this month, and have raised $420.00 so far. We invite you to join us on this hike in spirit by donating or walking!

Please send money to: (Mark it with our name Temenos Catholic Worker or you may send to us as well and we will add to our donation at end of month):

The Trevor Project

PO Box 69232

West Hollywood, CA 90069 US

2126958650

Deo Gratis! Thanks be to God!

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Fr. River Damien Sims, sfw, D.Min., D.S.T.

P.O. Box 642656

San Francisco, CA 94164

www.temenos.org

415-305-2124

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Let Love Ache

Father, give me the courage to keep on loving.

when others keep on hurting.

help me to live an achy love, a gritty,

persistent and emptying love;

a love that’s not afraid to flow toward the other

who has little left to offer in return.

And may I tread faithfully with heaven

through the unfinished work that surrounds me.

Commoners_Communion

Strahan Coleman

[desbianherstory]

Shamim Sarif and Hanan Kattan

#shamim sarif #Hanan Kattan #people #weddings #indian lesbians #palestinian lesbians

[spectralwiitch]

Hello! I have an important announcement to make!

You’re beautiful. You’re cute. You’re pretty. You’re gorgeous. You’re handsome. You’re wonderful.

Yes, you. You, the person reading this. You’re incredible and you are loved.

I do not care about your orientation, be it: straight, gay, bi, pan, omni, lesbian, poly, a-spec, aro, ace, litho, quoi, aroflux, aceflux, demi, queer, or what have you. I don’t care if your romantic and sexual orientation match or not.

I do not care about your gender. Cis, trans, bigender, trigender, demigender, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderflux, agender, genderqueer, polygender, pangender, omnigender, quoigender, or anything else.

I do not care about the colour of your skin, your race, your ethnicity. White, Black, European, Caucasian, Middle Eastern, Asian, Indian, Aboriginal, Mixed...

I care not for your nationality. Afghan, Albanian, Algerian, Andorran, Angolan, Anguillan, Antiguan, Barbudan, Argentine, Armenian, Australian, Austrian, Azerbaijani, Bahamian, Bahraini, Bangladeshi, Barbadian, Belarusian, Belgian, Belizean, Beninese, Bermudian, Bhutanese, Bolivian, Bosnian, Herzegovinian, Motswana, Brazilian, British Virgin Islander, Bruneian, Bulgarian, Burkinabe, Burundian, Cambodian, Cameroonian, Canadian, Cabo Verdean, Caymanian, Central African, Chadian, Chilean, Chinese, Christmas Islander, Cocos Islander, Colombian, Comoran, Congolese, Costa Rican, Ivorian, Croat, Cuban, Cypriot, Czech, Dane, Djibouti, Dominican, East Timorese, Ecuadorean, Egyptian, Salvadoran, English , Equatoguinean, Eritrean, Estonian, Ethiopian, Falkland Islander, Fijian, Finn, French, French Guianese, Gabonese, Gambian, Georgian, German, Ghanaian, Gibraltarian, Greek, Greenlander, Grenadan, Guadeloupean, Guatemalan, Channel Islander, Guinean, Guinea-Bissauan, Guyanese, Haitian, Honduran, Hungarian, Icelander, Indian, Indonesian, Iranian, Iraqi, Irish, Manx, Israeli, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Jordanian, Kazakhstani, Kenyan, I-Kiribati, North Korean, South Korean, Kuwaiti, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lebanese, Mosotho , Liberian, Libyan, Liechtensteiner, Lithuanian, Luxembourger, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malawian, Malaysian, Maldivan, Malian, Maltese, Marshallese, Martiniquais, Mauritanian, Mahorais, Mexican, Micronesian, Moldovan, Monegasque, Mongolian, Montserratian, Moroccan, Mozambican, Myanmarese, Namibian, Nauruan, Nepalese, Dutch, Dutch Antillean, Aotearan, New Zealander, Nicaraguan, Nigerien, Nigerian, Norwegian, Omani, Pakistani, Palauan, Palestinian, Panamanian, Papua New Guinean, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Filipino, Pole, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Qatari, Reunionese, Romanian, Russian, Rwandan, Saint Helenian, Kittian and Nevisian, Saint Lucian, Vincentian, Samoan, Sammarinese, Sao Tomean, Saudi, Scottish, Senegalese, Serbian, Seychellois, Sierra Leonean, Singaporean, Slovak, Slovene, Solomon Islander, Somali, South African, Spanish, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Surinamer, Swazi, Swede, Swiss, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tajik, Tanzanian, Thai, Togolese, Tongan, Trinidadian, Tunisian, Turk, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Ugandan, Ukrainian, Emirati, British, American, Uruguayan, Uzbek, Ni-Vanuatu, Venezuelan, Vietnamese, Virgin Islander, Welsh, Yemeni, Zambian, or Zimbabwean.

I do not care about your religion, whether you’re: Roman Catholic, Protestant, Adventist, Anabaptist, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Evangelical, Lutheran, Moravian, Pentecostal, Quaker, Calvinist, Western Rite Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Eastern Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Pagan, Wiccan, Amish, Mennonite, Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, etc

You are valued, you are loved, you are wonderful, and you are beautiful.

I hope you have a good day or night, a good week, a good month, and a good year.

I love you and wish you the best.

#gay pride #lesbian pride #bi pride #bigender pride #pan pride #pangender pride #poly pride #polyamorous pride #omni pride #aspec pride #aro pride #ace pride #agender pride #quoi pride #quoigender pride #demi pride #demigender pride #queer pride #trans pride #enby pride #nonbinary pride #genderfluid pride #genderflux pride #genderqueer pride #trigender pride #lgbtq pride

[theartofimaginaryfriends]

I’m taking a bit of a turn away from the new PJO/HOO focus of this blog to speak out about something important to me.

If you don’t already know, I’m a Jew. If you’re following me and you have a problem with that, unfollow me and move along. While we’re at it, I’m also Indian and a lesbian, so if you’re against that, again unfollow and move along.

If you aren’t already aware, DeSean Jackson recently posted a series of anti-Semitic posts on his Instagram falsely quoting Hitler. He later apologized for it, but to the community it felt empty.

Amid the awakening of activism, everyone except my Jewish friends and now myself have been silent on the issues regarding Jewish oppression.

If you consider yourself an activist and an ally, but you do not support Jews and specifically POC Jews, you aren’t a true ally.

If someone says Black Lives Matter, and then starts being anti-Semitic, they’re saying that black lives matter unless that life is Jewish.

INCLUDE JEWS IN YOUR ACTIVISM.

Antisemitism inextricably links with racism, and to be truly anti-racist we must openly and loudly reject all forms of hate.

I urge you to educate yourself if you’re unaware. I urge you to stop the spread of misinformation around Jewish people. I urge you to help silence the voices trying to silence us.

I’ve seen one non-Jewish friend of mine posting about anti-semitism and why it’s a form of racism. ONE.

We need more non-Jews helping amplify our voices as much as people have been with black voices. Not just for us, but for our black Jewish brothers and sisters. Their lives matter as much as everyone else.

Here’s some sources to help you get started:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/10/28/us/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-victims/index.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/chabad-of-poway-synagogue-shooting-these-are-the-victims/135219/%3Famp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1109981

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-17426313

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5392084

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/world/europe/mireille-knoll-murder-holocaust.amp.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antisemitism

https://m.jpost.com/american-politics/black-lives-matter-the-jews-and-palestinian-nationalism-634946

[dear-indies]

Hi Cat and Mouse! Do you have any alt FC suggestions for Lily Collins? Tysm!!!

Amber Rose Revah (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / Kenyan, India.

Meaghan Rath (1986) Goan Indian / Ashkenazi Jewish.

Molly Ephraim (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish, 25% French.

Monica Raymund (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Dominican - is bisexual.

Zosia Mamet (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh.

Riley Keough (1989) Irish, Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish / German, Norwegian, English, Scottish, along with some French, Irish, Swiss-German, remote Dutch and Danish, possibly other.

Eve Harlow (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other.

Laur Allen (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, Chinese / English.

Sofia Black-D'Elia (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian.

Medallion Rahimi (1992) Iranian, Mizrahi Jewish.

Hari Nef (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish - is trans.

Beanie Feldstein (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish - is openly married to a woman but has chosen not to label her sexuality publicly.

Hannah Marks (1993) Muscogee, Mizrahi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish, Polish Jewish, Irish, and English.

Julia Garner (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Cornish, Scottish, Irish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish.

Dylan Gelula (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unspecified.

Molly Gordon (1995) Ashkenazi Jewish.

also:

Jenna Coleman (1986)

Alba Flores (1986) Romani - is a lesbian.

Parveen Kaur (1988) Punjabi Indian.

Alicia Sanz (1988)

Lucy Hale (1989)

Logan Browning (1989) African-American / European.

Úrsula Corberó (1989)

Dianne Doan (1990) Vietnamese and 1/8th Chinese.

Aiysha Hart (1990) English, Saudi Arabian.

Eve Hewson (1991)

Conor Leslie (1991)

Emma Appleton (1991)

Davika Hoorne (1992) Thai / Belgian.

Cassandra Naud (1992)

Sanya Malhotra (1992) Punjabi Indian.

Ayça Ayşin Turan (1992) Turkish.

Ellise Chappell (1992)

Claudia Doumit (1992) Italian, Lebanese, other.

Sobhita Dhulipala (1992) Telugu Brahmin.

Jessica Henwick (1992) Chinese Singaporean / English.

Kylie Verzosa (1992) Ilocano Filipino.

Mina El Hammani (1993) Moroccan.

Hande Erçel (1993) Turkish.

Camila Queiroz (1993) Brazilian.

Emma Dumont (1994)

Rachel Sennott (1995)

Natacha Karam (1995) Lebanese / Irish.

Adeline Rudolph (1995) Korean / German.

Miyoshi Ayaka (1996) Japanese.

Leem Lubany (1996) Palestinian.

Brittany O'Grady (1996) Louisiana Creole [African, French] / English, Irish, as well as Swiss-German, German, Welsh, and Dutch.

Here you go!

#fc help #rph #rpc #Lily Collins alts

[shesnake]

shamim sarif, an indian muslim lesbian, really made a film from her book based on how she and her christian palestinian wife fell in love, exploring issues of race, gender, and sexuality, with conversations of how these issues effect brown women specifically, possibly the first filmmaker in western media to do this. despite its simplicity, low budget, and cheesy acting, I can’t think straight (2008) is still one of the most groundbreaking, brave, realistic, and honest pieces of gay cinema to this day. in this essay I will

#d #i can't think straight #women directors #lgbt directors

[qqueenofhades]

50 Awesome Women To Know: Part 7

 Halloween is a great time, because why not, to learn more about awesome women. Previous entries are here.

Alba Alonso de Quesada (1924 -- ): Honduran, lawyer and academic, long-term advocate of women, children, the working poor, and organized labor, campaigner against corruption, feminist and reformer, still fighting the global good fight at the age of 94.

Amina of Zazzau (? -- 1610): Nigerian, African warrior queen and conqueror, heroine of many legends and folk tales, who bested male rivals and collected tribute across several regions.

Ángela Acuña Braun (1888-1983): Costa Rican, another Central American woman and lawyer. Specialist in international human rights law, founder of many feminist and legal advocacy organizations, diplomat and ambassador.

Ashani Weeraratna (1971 -- ): Sri Lankan/South African, pioneering cancer researcher and director of the PhD cancer biology program at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Barbara Sanguszko (1718-1791): Polish, prominent figure of the Polish Enlightenment, poet, society hostess, translator, sponsor of artists, politicians, and intellectuals, philanthropist and religious patron.

Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi (1858-1921): Iranian, one of the first women’s rights activists in the modern history of Iran; educator, author, mother of seven children who also went on to distinguished careers in the public sector.

Brita Tott (c. 1498): Danish/Swedish, had an almost ludicrously colorful career as a major landowner, spy, forger, counterfeiter, administrator, and suspected traitor, who escaped the charges against her and lived into retirement.

Cheryl Dunye (1966 -- ): Liberian-American, highly decorated filmmaker, activist, and college professor, who studies the African-American lesbian and queer experience through film, art, and other mediums.

Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566): French, mistress of King Henry II of France and de facto queen of France for much of his reign (in which she competed with fellow Badass Lady Catherine de Medici). Well-educated, beautiful, and widely influential.

Ekaterina Karavelova (1860-1947): Bulgarian, suffragist, educator, author, and diplomat, instrumental in the development of women’s access to university education in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe.

Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684): Italian, the first woman known in history to receive a PhD degree, which she did in 1678, in philosophy, from the University of Padua. She dazzled academics from all the distinguished Italian universities (Rome, Perugia, Bologna, and Naples) in a public hearing. 

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012): African-American, the grandchild of slaves, artist and sculptor who represented the twentieth-century black experience in her work and received many awards and recognitions.

Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800): British, socialite and social reformer who donated large amounts of her fortune to the poor; founder of the Blue Stockings Society for educated women, and probably a lesbian, as she was reported to have had “no interest in men or marriage” and kept a female companion.

Fawziyya Abu Khalid (1955 -- ): Saudi Arabian, poet, social critic, feminist, one of the most prominent Saudi female poets and outspoken political advocate for the rights of women in the Kingdom.

Frances Kirwan (1959 -- ): British, mathematician, current Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford (a position once held by Edmond Halley, among others) and first female holder of the title. Distinguished researcher and teacher of mathematics and fellow of several Oxbridge positions.

Freddie and Truus Oversteegen (1925-2018 and 1923-2016): Dutch, Resistance activists during WWII, who seduced Nazis by luring them out to remote locations for their compatriots (or the sisters themselves) to kill them. Their family hid Jews too, and both sisters lived long lives and died of old age.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 -- ): Northern Irish, astrophysicist who helped discover radio pulsars (described as “one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th century”). Was then excluded from the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics given to her colleagues in the discovery. Finally received a £2.3 million award for distinguished physics research in 2018, and gave ALL OF IT to help women, minorities, and refugees pursue careers in STEM.

Justina Szilágyi (c. 1455-c.1497): Hungarian, cousin of Matthias Corvinus (the Raven King) and second wife of the notorious Vlad the Impaler (yes, that Vlad). Outlived him and successfully pursued her claim to lands in Transylvania.

Katharine McCormick (1875-1967): American, philanthropist, suffragist, heiress, who went to MIT in the 19th century, and who funded the research necessary for the modern birth control pill. A pioneering advocate of reproductive freedom, who also donated a great deal of money to ensure women’s continued scholarship at MIT.

Khurshidbanu Natavan (1832-1897): Azerbaijani, poet and musical lyricist, social and cultural patron of the Karabakh region who funded civic improvement projects, founder and sponsor of literary societies.

Kittur Chennamma (1778-1829): Indian, Rani (ruler) of the state of Kittur, who led an armed rebellion against the British East India Company and who, while eventually defeated, has become a folk heroine and symbol of resistance against the Raj.

Lama Abu-Odeh (1962 --): Palestinian-American, lawyer, feminist, and professor who currently teaches at Georgetown University, scholar and advocate for Muslims in a post-9/11 world. 

Laura Bassi (1711-1778): Italian, physicist and academic; earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bologna (1732) and subsequently became professor of physics there. First woman to hold a university chair in the sciences, instrumental in the study and spread of Newtonian physics.

Leona Vicario (1789-1842): Mexican, heroine of the Mexican War of Independence, feminist, one of the first female Mexican journalists, honored as “Distinguished and Beloved Mother of the Homeland.” 

María Abella de Ramírez (1863-1926): Uruguayan, another South American feminist and social reformer, advocate for sex workers’ rights and new divorce laws, founder of South American suffragist organizations, who fought the all-consuming power of the Catholic Church.

#history #women in history #queer history #50 women to know

[365daysoflesbians]

NOVEMBER 30: I Can’t Think Straight premieres (2008)

On this day in 2008, the lesbian film I Can’t Think Straight finally received a wide release in the United States after initially hitting select theater on November 21, 2008.

The British drama is based on the book of the same name and was directed by Shamim Sarif, a notable writer and director of South Asian and South African descent who is openly lesbian and has extensively explored gender and sexuality in her work. I Can’t Think Straight follows the story of a Palestinian woman named Tala who is living in London and engaged to a man named Hani. While Tala’s wealthy family eagerly make arrangements for her wedding to take place in their home country of Jordan, Tala is slowly coming to the realization that she likes women. The object of her affection is the girlfriend of her best friend, a British Indian Muslim woman named Leyla. As Tala’s wedding day approached, both women struggle with their family’s cultural expectations and their secret relationship.

Upon its release in 2008, I Can’t Think Straight was awarded by many LGBT film festivals from around the world such as the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Lesbian publication sites such as AfterEllen and Autostraddle delivered lackluster but ultimately endearing reviews of the film. Autostraddle dubs it “another film that lesbians either love or hate, but this is the film that opened our hearts forever to...Tala and Leyla, two women from very different backgrounds that fall in love on accident.”

-LC

#365daysoflesbians #i can't think straight #shamin sarif #lesbian movies #lesbian history #lgbt history #gay history #wlw history #lgbtq history #lesbian #wlw #sapphic #lgbt #lgbtq #movies #movie #2000s #usa #uk #jordan #palestine #india