Quand on nait transsexuel, on découvre très vite que la vie ne va pas être une partie de plaisir et que c’est un combat de chaque instant contre soi et contre les autres tout au long de sa vie. Contre soi pour se donner le courage et la volonté indispensable pour aller jusqu’au bout de [...]

An Arab Feminism(s) Conference was held this past week at the American University in Beirut, bringing together academics, researchers, writers, activists, and professors working on feminism and women’s rights. We got very excited about the conference and knew that it would be a challenge to bring up lesbian issues amidst what we predicted would be a conservative audience. So we banked on our allies [...]

From October 4th to October 7th 2009, the American University of Beirut (AUB) will host “Arab Feminisms: A Critical Perspective,” the awaited conference that will bring together feminist thinkers, researchers and scholars from the region and around the world.

The event is organized by The Lebanese Association of Women Researchers (Bahithat) and in [...]

يقول ابراهيم محمود في كتابه المتعة المحظورة: الشذوذ الجنسي في تاريخ العرب: “اذا كانت اللغة هي هوية الانسان، علامته الفارقة، فهي كذلك الدالة عليه، والمؤرخة له في المقابل… ان اللغة مجتمع قائم بذاته، من حيث قابليتها للتحوّل، والتجذر في الذاكرة، والاغتناء، وتفكك المعنى وموت معنى وانبعاث آخر. وهي في تحولاتها هذه، تشكل تاريخا واضحا حول صانعها، [...]

“Many lesbians know nothing about working-class oppression and choose not to learn, many treat their lovers as badly as my husband treated me and choose not to change, many know nothing about Arabs and choose to remain uninformed. As a member of these oppressed groups, I have to make conscious choices about my life, particularly [...]

This is the new Bekhsoos. We’re back after almost a whole year of no publishing. So what’s different? For one thing, we’ve decided to publish weekly. Yes, that’s a huge commitment, which is why we’ve added the little “beta” yellow icon next to our logo. We’re testing this new idea. We’re putting ourselves to the challenge of publishing at least 5-6 articles weekly because we want to be on top of information technology today. The idea of Bekhsoos.com started out (exactly 2 years ago) as a replacement for a “real” print magazine. Today, and with the way information sharing has evolved, it is clear to me that Bekhsoos actually belongs online. That’s where young LGBTs in Lebanon are looking…