Posts Tagged ‘
identity ’
Jul 25th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Featured Articles, Matare7, Personal Stories
Into a city tainted with a collective form of Dissociative Identity Disorder (if such a diagnosis can ever exist), a society embodying the epitome of double standards, encouraging a young girl to adopt a boy’s stereotypical gender role, into Beirut, I was born. In an environment where positive, active, progressive and liberal values are often [...]
Tags: beirut, family, Gay, gender, homosexuality, identity, lebanon Posted in Featured Articles, Matare7, Personal Stories |
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Jun 28th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Featured Articles
I remember the first time I wanted to die was the day I committed suicide. I had to define the road that took me from the “state of being” to the “afterlife.” It was the only decision I ever took, and I am grateful.
It was because of the eyes, since they were omnipresent, lidless and [...]
Tags: beirut, death, eternity, identity, rebirth Posted in Featured Articles |
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Jun 7th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Personal Stories
A couple of years ago, I had totally regressed into the kind of lazy stupor that characterized my university years. While most students were experimenting with mind-bending drugs and having endless wild but ultimately hollow sexual encounters with perky and accommodating boys, I was really only fitting in with the ‘sleeping until twelve’ and ‘not [...]
Tags: coming out, Gay, identity, lesbian, LGBTQ, transgender Posted in Personal Stories |
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May 31st, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Personal Stories
لو شو ما عملت… كيف ما رحت وكيف ما جيت… في دايماً بنت بأفكاري.
زهرة غاردينيا، عطرها بيفوح وبيشعشع بظلمة حياتي المغيمة.
وردة ضحكتها مزهرة بوقت الأفراح والمصاعب كمان.
عنفوانها وشجاعتها بيعدوا كل يللي حولا. بالنهار هيي الشمس وبالليل القمر. فيي جرب أوصفا، بس الكلام ما بيكفي…
Tags: Arabic عربي, challenge, identity, thoughts Posted in Personal Stories |
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May 10th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Articles, Featured Articles
I don’t mind explaining my queerness to non-queer identifying people. But recently it’s been pissing me off. When I’m at a bar, drinking with friends, I don’t really enjoy having to explain my sexuality to the random guy trying to “dance” next to me. Recently, out and about in Beirut, I’ve found that my sexuality [...]
Tags: identity, lesbian, queer, sexuality Posted in Articles, Featured Articles |
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Apr 26th, 2010 |
By Mir |
Category: Personal Stories
Non, ceci n’est pas un nouveau roman d’Alexandre Dumas. Ceci est mon histoire à moi.
Je suis née en 1973. Donc avec un peu de mathématiques, sinus du cosinus du logarithme, calculatrice aidant, ça fait donc… 36 ans que je suis sur terre.
Et du coup, ça fait 36 ans que je porte un masque, et pas n’importe lequel! Un [...]
Tags: coming out, Fear, Homophobia, identity, personal story Posted in Personal Stories |
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Apr 26th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Featured Articles, Reports
A lot of people asked us to talk about the Armenian Genocide, and how it feels to be a queer Armenian in Lebanon. There is not one way to being Armenian in Lebanon, not one way of integration. Shant comes from a mixed family whereas S.’s parents are Armenian. Their experiences differ but the questions [...]
Tags: Armenia, belonging, feminism, genocide, human rights, identity, lebanon, Palestine, queer, struggle Posted in Featured Articles, Reports |
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Apr 26th, 2010 |
By aphrodite |
Category: Trans Column
After an exile that lasted more than ten years in Denmark, Yara returned to her home country, Lebanon, for a visit that didn’t exceed ten days. But little did she expect to find the vast changes in the queer community in her absence. In the ten days she was here, the beautiful brunette to whom [...]
Tags: denmark, identity, lebanon, meem, personal story, religion, sex change, society, Transexual, transexual rights, transgender Posted in Trans Column |
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Apr 5th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Personal Stories
A decade and a half ago, I was a teenage, out, first generation Arab-Armenian dyke in the United States. Life was not easy as a triple minority, per se, but I managed to find my voice and remain outspoken, releasing anger and addressing socioeconomic inequality via spoken word and slam poetry at open mic events [...]
Tags: activism, American, arab, Armenian, hip hop, identity, sexuality Posted in Personal Stories |
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Mar 28th, 2010 |
By aphrodite |
Category: Featured Articles, Trans Column
جاءت الى وطنها لبنان في زيارة لم تتجاوز العشرة أيام بعد اغتراب دام أكثر من عشر سنوات في الدانمارك، لكنها لم تتوقع أن يكون التغيير الذي طرأ في غيابها على مجتمع المثليين والمثليات والمتحولين بهذا الحجم. انها “يارا”، تلك الصبية السمراء الجميلة التي لم تكن الحياة سهلة معها، لكنها لم تفقد بريق البراءة في عينيها، إنما ازدادت قوة وصلابة. عشرة أيام قضتها “يارا” في لبنان، تعرفت فيها الى “ميم” والأعضاء، ونظمت فيها مجموعة ندوات عن قضايا الترانس المتنوعة، وعبرت عن فخرها وسعادتها بالانجازات التي تحققها مجموعة فتية وناشئة مثل “ميم”. وقبل أن تغادر، ودعتنا هذه الصبية الذكية بكلمات عاطفية دافئة، تاركة ذكريات طيبة بيننا، ووعدتنا بعودة قريبة الى لبنان، كما أنها لم تبخل على “بخصوص” باللقاء التالي
Tags: Arabic عربي, denmark, identity, lebanon, meem, personal story, religion, sex change, society, Transexual, transexual rights, transgender Posted in Featured Articles, Trans Column |
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