#muslim lesbian positivity

[bigenderrevert]

It's pride month and ive decided to make lesbian OCs more specifically Muslim lesbians both are yet to be named

This will not be last y'all see of them, they will be back and even gayer next time

[bizarreaizen]

i love you mspec lesbians !! i love you "cringe" bunny hat alt fashion queers !! i love you she/her gays !! i love you trans people who don't fit into gender norms or stereotypes !! i love you drag queens and drag kings !! i love you neopronouns and xenopronouns users !! i love you people who use microlabels !! i love you unlabeled people !! i love you disabled poc queers !! i love you muslim queers !! i love you non-human queers !! i love you xenogenders users !! . . ♡ /gen

[violottie]

ahem, taps mic....

lesbianism is not a quota to fill. lesbianism is not what you do. it is innate; it is who you are.

a lesbian is a woman or lesbian aligned nonbinary person who is exclusively attracted to women and non-man aligned nonbinary people.

you fit that? you're a lesbian!

lesbian sexuality is so profoundly beautiful and diverse and powerful. it is boundless, limitless and abundant. it is joyous and overflowing with glory and strength.

take pride, lesbians. we are the best.

❤️🧡🤍🩷💖

[strawberrytalia]

arospec characters in my heart

[blackxlesbianxstanacc]

My Mini Blog Biography

Purpose of Blog

⚢ The purpose of this blog is to provide a place of community for Black lesbians of all different body types, ages, cultures, and gender expressions. From Black high femmes to Black stone butches and studs, I hope that you can feel represented and seen while you are here. I hope that this space makes you feel loved and appreciated exactly as you are now. Through historical analysis, art appreciation, and theory, we can learn together about the beauty of Black lesbianism in all of its different forms. 🤎🖤🤎🖤

Background Info (Blog Owner)

⚢ Hey I’m Kiliyah. I prefer she/her pronouns but I’m comfortable with they/them.

⚢ I’m a 23 year old Capricorn ☀️ with an Aquarius 🌙 and Sagittarius 🌅 I love learning about astrology and Human Design, I’m a Generator!

⚢ I identify as a lesbian and a High/Hyper Femme. I’m also Muslim and Black (African “American”). I exist for the Black Butch Lesbians and hope to marry a Black Muslimah Butch one day (InshaAllah) 😽

⚢ Politically I identify as an anti-imperialist. Referencing the Black Alliance for Peace’s definition, I recognize imperialism as the highest form of capitalism and therefore one of the most destructive forms of oppression. I honestly think the U.S., NATO, and every other imperialist nation are the anti-thesis of humanity. I hate all U.S. presidents and I pray each day for the freedom, protection, and liberation of all oppressed nations in the world. 🌎

⚢ I’m currently receiving my master’s degree to become a therapist soon. I want to specialize in the fat identity, more specifically supporting fat clients with the stressors and disorders that are created and perpetuated by fatphobia and anti-fatness. I plan to support fat people with eating disorders, anxiety disorders, and mood disorders. I also want to become a couples therapist to support lesbian couples and their families. 🧠

⚢ I run a second blog called @fatxpsychology where I talk about the psychology of the fat identity and relay information through art appreciation, theory, and history!

⚢ My hobbies are crocheting, watching dark TV dramas (e.g., Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and Wentworth), cooking, blogging, and I want to get into baking soon. 🧁

⚢ I am always looking for more fat lesbians, Black femmes, and Black fat queers to connect with and become friends with. Please send a DM if you want to be friends ❤️

[ms-demeanor]

So I've been seeing some discourse around the No Fly List leak that looks a bit like "hey everybody, we can't make jokes about this, the list is racist and there are children on the list" or "if you're talking about identity categories instead of the list you're missing the point" and I think that we CAN make jokes about a trans bi lesbian catgirl owning the US government while also appreciating the gravity of the No Fly List but what I think is troubling to me is the way that these discourse posts are treating the blatant racism and inherently fascist nature of the No Fly List as news.

It is news that Maia Arson Crimew was able to download a copy of the No Fly List from an unsecured public server.

It is not news that there are 1.5 million people on that list, many of whom do not belong on it for any number of reasons, and it is not news that there are children on that list, and it is not news that the list is a tool used to deprive people of their civil liberties. That's why the list exists.

I'm aware that I'm getting older. I'm aware that there are entire adults of legal drinking age who were born after 9/11. I'm aware that it's not super common to follow up on foreign policy or national security debacles from when you were in kindergarten, but there are people who have been mad about this shit for twenty years and if you're just now hearing about how bad the list is for the first time, hell, maybe that's on us and we haven't been yelling enough (though when I'm yelling about how the TSA is security theater meant to make us accept encroachments on our rights, this is at least a part of what I'm yelling about).

The No Fly List is a list of individuals maintained by the TSA who are deemed a threat to security for some reason or another.

The TSA maintains the list, though they are given information for the list from the FBI, Terrorism Screening Center, and other entities. If you'd like to click this document, you can find 250 pages of FOIA'd documents about the No Fly List pre 2006. Much of this document is members of the FBI trying to justify why they need a copy of the list and lamenting that airlines have a copy of the list and they don't. This is very funny.

There have been issues with mis-identifications and false positives for the list for as long as the list has existed. You can click here to read through an infuriating 200 pages about a Pfizer employee who was stopped at least a dozen times at airports and who retained a law firm to hound the TSA/CBP/ICE clusterfuck of interagency buck-passing for nine months to try to get the problem resolved. One of the three documents at this link includes a complaint from the president of the Terrorist Screening Center lamenting the way that the TSA would refer obvious non-matches to be detained, including infants and the elderly.

At this point, the FBI/TSA/TSC/ICE/CBP claimed list was still relatively small, in the low thousands at most.

However a 2009 cost-benefit report by the Defense Technical Information Center found that in 2004-2005 30,000 people contacted the TSA to have their names removed from the list; 30k false positives suggests a list somewhat longer than a thousand names.

As long as the No Fly List has existed, criteria for being placed on the list has been subjective and selectively enforced.

As the Crimew leak shows, there isn't a tremendous amount of biographical data, but there are hundreds of thousands of names and it is enforced at the discretion of the TSA in each individual airport in the US, which is how you end up with duplicates and toddlers and 100-year-old men on what is functionally a filter to keep Muslim people out of the US.

The list has expanded every year that it has existed, and has been defended by republicans and democrats alike since it became one of the tools in our arsenal to fight "the war on terror"

And for just about that long, people have been talking about how it is unconstitutional, denies civil liberties, and also just doesn't really work.

It has never been transparent, it has always been a tool of surveillance, exclusion, and control:

And people have been documenting, protesting, and suing over the islamophobic nature of the list - and the security state's weaponization of the list as a threat - for two decades at this point because in the earliest days of the No Fly List it was OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGED that it was based on racial profiling and people made (shitty, cruel) legal arguments for why it should be:

THIS isn't funny. These are not the things that people are joking about when they choose to stay silly :3 in this conversation.

But these things also aren't news. Nearly everything I screencapped here was listed as a source on Wikipedia, and what wasn't was available as simple searches on Archive.Org or easily looked up on news websites.

All you have to do is just *look* at the sources on Wikipedia to see that people actually have been talking about it for quite a long time, very publicly, and that there has been a lot of public outcry about the list as it balloons and punishes innocent people with false positives:

And when you've been looking at stories like these for twenty fucking years it feels wonderful to say "holy fucking bingle" and celebrate that for once someone did something VERY COOL in order to shine a light on this massive (and apparently underappreciated problem).

[marcusbrutus]

“The hivliving situation isn’t funny she took advantage of people” actually it’s hilarious. White girl college student literally pretended to be a lesbian Muslim Chinese Pakistani human trafficking survivor HIV positive married to an Indian transwoman and she and her group of fandom police called other people online racist and severely bullied them because they wrote Hamilton fanfiction she didn’t like. Not only that but she did all this so she could write her OWN shitty hamilton fanfic. She wrote about her struggles as a person of color and HIV survivor and talked as if she was an authority on these topics and no one called her out because they actually believed her insane story and didn’t want to call her on it. And All of it was a lie. Identity politics is insane. I wouldn’t be surprised if a vast number of people on tumblr are doing something similar while also being white girl college students. It is so fucking funny and I’m tired of pretending it’s not. Tumblr is most certainly a website.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🍉 Sapphic Palestinian Fiction Books for Pride Month

🩷 I know, I know. You're probably asking yourself, "Why is she posting about these same books AGAIN?" Here's the thing. I grew up as a Palestinian, American, Muslim, QUEER girl with no awareness that these books existed. No one was talking about them. Honestly, very few people spoke about Muslims or Arab-Americans in a positive light when I was growing up, let alone Queer Palestinian women. But these books DO exist. They deserve to be loved, and you know what? Young queer people (male, female, nonbinary, gay, lesbian, bi, pan, trans, EVERYONE within this beautiful queer spectrum) deserve to know that they're SEEN. That people like them EXIST. That their stories matter (I have a completed contemporary YA novel about a bisexual Muslim, Palestinian American girl publishers don't seem to want) and deserve to be shared, heard, LOVED.

💖 So yes. I'm going to keep talking about these books. I'm going to make sure people know they exist. I'm going to talk about them during Pride, throughout the other 11 months of the year, during 2024 and beyond. Because you're not seeing them. You're not reading them. And by ignoring these stories, you're ignoring the people they represent, too.

❤ Help me by sharing this. Please.

🍉 Sapphic Palestinian Books:

🩷 Between Banat by Mejdulene Bernard Shomali 💖 The Philistine by Leila Marshy ❤ The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan 💜 Belladonna by Anbara Salam ❤ Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis 💖 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🩷 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🍉 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher

[charmedreincarnation]

hi maya, how are you? there's something i would like to ask for your advice on, i know you've manifested your mom to not be muslim anymore, right? so basically, i come from a very strict muslim family, but i'm secretly bi or lesbian, i don't know which one i am yet but i know i like girls for sure (i'm a girl). as you probably know, being LGBTQ isn't allowed in islam. because of this i've always struggled with my mental health and i've always hated myself, and after finding out about the law, i've decided i want to revise me and my family ever being muslim. now the thing is, my best friend is also muslim, and because she is muslim too she believes that being gay is horrible and disgusting (from what i've seen her repost on tiktok), she reposts videos saying that gay people should not have rights, and that gay weddings are disgusting, and that it's stupid that pride month exists, and stuff like that. i have never talked to her about it because im too scared to ask her, because i know shes going to say that our religion believes being gay is wrong and gross...seeing the videos she reposts makes me feel really bad but she is my best friend ever and i dont want to stop being her friend, but i really just cant relate to her anymore because i dont believe in islam anymore and i like girls...is it okay for me to manifest her not being muslim either? or is that wrong? i really need advice...

Nope it’s not wrong. You have the power to shape your own reality. You can manifest change in people, situations, and relationships. But just my personal opinion, If you can bring about such change, why not choose to manifest a better friend or a healthier relationship?

This is just my perspective, but if someone disrespects you or treats you poorly, do we need to change them? I understand that friendships and bonds are built over time and letting go can be difficult. However, I believe in not trying to change those who harbor negativity towards me.The same goes for relationships. Instead of altering past lovers or individuals who may have wronged us, why not manifest someone who appreciates and respects us from the beginning?

Regardless , it's your reality. Your assumptions will shape it regardless. But this also ties back to self-concept. You deserve better. You deserve someone who adores and respects you from day one.But you can also choose better for yourself. Manifest relationships that add value and positivity to your life.

[yourbelgianthings]

positivity post for all trans women and transfem people with everything happening here lately, you are so valid and loved!

to Black, indigenous, latina, and asian transfems

to transfems who are on estrogen, who have had surgery, who aren’t/haven’t and don’t want to, and who do want to but can’t right now

all sexualities and romantic attractions: lesbian, bi, pan, ace, aro, straight, aroace, and more

to trans women, to multigender transfems, to nonbinary transfems, and all forms of transfem gender experience

to femme, androgynous, and masc transfems

to transfems of all religions and spiritualities: muslim, jewish, christian, buddhist, hindu, and more

to physically disabled, mentally ill, and neurodivergent transfems

to all trans women and transfem people 💐🌈✨💕

(unfortunately i have to say this but terfs and radfems don’t even try it you will be blocked instantly i will not platform that kind of shit)

[liminalcathag]

1. despite my efforts looking for actual info on the no-flight list, as far as i can tell we have to wait for more journalists to report because it only gave the information to some people, she has not publicly published any as of yet (and might never be due to endangering people listed). we know that 10% of the people listed have the name Muhammad and that there’s a racist lean.

2. the reason you’re seeing me and others still reblog some bi lesbian positive stuff is because the cat in question that hacked the no-fly list was actively being harassed not because i’m shoving silly discourse where it doesn’t belong.

3. edit: i found the article that says kids are on it. go nuts “The founded ‘no-fly’ list predominantly consists of Arabic and Muslim-sounding names which caused human rights activists’ concerns. More than 10% of the entries (174,002 of 1,566,062) contained the “MUHAMMAD” name. Three four-year-olds and twenty-five individuals as old as hundred years were also listed as potential “suspects.”

[waitmyturtles]

As legalization of same-sex marriage inches closer to reality in Thailand, the Pew Research Center looked into attitudes across the continent.

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From the Pew Research Center:

Same-sex marriage is an active legal and social issue across South, Southeast and East Asia. In the wake of several court rulings on the issue across Asia in the past year, we analyzed data from three recent Pew Research Center surveys to see how people in the region feel about legalizing same-sex marriage.

A median of 49% of adults in 12 places in Asia say they at least somewhat favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally. Another 43% say they oppose legal same-sex marriage, according to surveys conducted between June 1, 2022, and Sept. 17, 2023.

Views toward same-sex marriage are most favorable in Japan, where nearly seven-in-ten (68%) say they at least somewhat favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally. Japan, the only Group of Seven member that does not legally recognize same-sex couples, has been facing internal and external pressure to do so.

In Vietnam, views on legalizing same-sex marriage are similarly positive – 65% of adults support it. Roughly six-in-ten in Hong Kong (58%) and Cambodia (57%) also favor legal same-sex marriage. A Hong Kong court recently ruled that same-sex couples hold equal inheritance rights, though Hong Kong law does not allow them to marry.

Same-sex marriage was an issue on Thailand’s campaign trail this year. Six-in-ten adults there favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally. Around a third of Thais oppose it.

In India, where the Supreme Court recently rejected a petition to legalize same-sex marriage, about 53% of adults say they favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry, while 43% oppose it. (The survey was conducted prior to the ruling.)

In Singapore, no clear majority favors (45%) or opposes (51%) same-sex marriage. Same-sex marriage is not legal in Singapore, and its parliament amended the constitution last year to prevent legal challenges to the definition of marriage.

And in Taiwan, roughly equal shares say they support (45%) and oppose (43%) same-sex marriage. Taiwan is the only place in Asia where same-sex marriage is legal.

In a handful of places in Asia, majorities oppose legal same-sex marriage. In Indonesia, 92% say they oppose it, including 88% who strongly oppose it. Large majorities in Malaysia (82%) and Sri Lanka (69%) also oppose it.

And in South Korea, a slight majority (56%) say they oppose legal same-sex marriage, while 41% favor it. Lawmakers proposed South Korea’s first same-sex marriage bill earlier this year.

Views of same-sex marriage by religion

Though different places have vastly different religious demographics, the religiously unaffiliated tend to be among the most likely to support same-sex marriage.

In the six places where enough religiously unaffiliated individuals were surveyed to analyze their responses separately, half or more of the religiously unaffiliated support legal same-sex marriage. That includes 73% in Japan.

Meanwhile, Muslims and Christians are often, but not always, among the least likely to support it. For instance, while roughly six-in-ten religiously unaffiliated Singaporeans favor same-sex marriage, fewer than a third of Christians and Muslims do.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, the two Muslim-majority places surveyed, Muslims report the lowest support for same-sex marriage of any religious group in any place surveyed. Only 4% of Indonesian Muslims and 8% of Malaysian Muslims support it.

Views of same-sex marriage by age and gender

Across most places surveyed, younger adults are more likely than their older counterparts to support same-sex marriage. This difference is most extreme in Taiwan: 75% of Taiwanese adults under 35 favor it, compared with 33% of those 35 and older.

In five places surveyed, women are more likely than men to support legal same-sex marriage. For example, in South Korea, 48% of women say they favor it, compared with 33% of men. And in Cambodia, 62% of women favor it, compared with 50% of men. In other places surveyed, there are no significant differences by gender.

Note: Here are the questions used for the analysis, along with responses, and the survey methodology.

Sneha Gubbala  is a research assistant focusing on global attitudes research at Pew Research Center.

William Miner is a research assistant focusing on religion at Pew Research Center.

[prettyboykatsuki]

i saw your post about baby queer muslims and idk if youve ever read hijab butch blues but as a nonbinary lesbian who grew up in a really religious environment (catholic), even though im not muslim, i found it really like. affirming and comforting. lamya talking about her experiences discovering her own gender & sexuality via connecting to figures in the quran and ultimately finding acceptance & community with other queer muslims & queer people in general after a lifetime of confusion and self doubt was like…. idk. its a really beautiful memoir. reading it felt like talking to a friend or being in a book club kinda, since so much of her own journey w gender and sexuality involves thinking critically about islam and how the quran applies to her own life, and finding pieces of herself in a lot of the stories idk but yeah its one of the books that touched me the most this year

you know its been on my to-read list for a long time and this does definitely feel like a sign to read it 😭 based on the synopsis it sounds like we have a lot in common, so im almost positive it is going to make me cry like a baby lmao. im glad u could also find some catharsis in it. it is tough being religious and queer but as always we have each other 🫂🫂

[folkloregirlfriend]

some show recs (idk what you're into, so this is a random collection)

harlots. a based-on-real-events period drama set in the 1750s, entirely female written & directed, about prostitutes attempting to achieve financial security and escape their shitty lives as pieces of meat for men.

downton abbey. period drama set in 1912 about an aristocratic family whose male heir dies on the titanic, leaving them in a position of ruin (daughters can't inherit after all). there IS some romance in this, but it's not the main plot i promise. each season jumps forward in time, so season 1 is titanic, season 2 is wwi, etc. genuinely love this show, i think you'll LOVE sybil, the youngest daughter of the family.

scott and bailey. cop show about two lady cops who solve murders. i don't usually like cop shows but i really like this one, because the two women have such great friendship chemistry.

this is going to hurt. medical dark comedy show based on a real doctor's memoir about his time as a junior/trainee doctor on an nhs obstetrics/gynaecology ward. don't look up spoilers! you know how all tv shows are written like the characters have gone to therapy or been written by people who spend too much time on twitter? and everything is kinda bland and boring because the writers smooth out all the nasty/rude/sharp parts of their characters to make them ~unproblematic~ and it ends up being shit? this is not like that. the main character is so horrible and yet you can't help but love him despite all his flaws. i really think you'll love this.

we are lady parts. comedy mini series about a bunch of muslim women who play in a punk band, looking for a new guitarist. it's a cute little show but it does feel like a first draft and i wish it had been given the budget to be a full series instead.

the gilded age. period drama set in 1880s new york. absolutely NOTHING happens in this show. it's amazing. the basic plot is a young woman (meryl streep's irl lesbian daughter) is orphaned and has to go live with her elderly aunts in new york, who are Old Money and snooty. there is a scene with some shoes that literally haunts me to this day because i have never felt so embarrassed by a fictional character's actions the way that scene made me feel. there are two seasons of old ladies bickering and i gobbled up every single moment. you'll either become unhinged and love it (like me) or be like ??? why did you rec me this ??? nothing is happening ??? and i'm not sure which way you'll go but i figured i'd rec it any way.

oh my god these are soooo good!!!! thank you for sending this ❣️ i don't usually watch shows but i really need to distract myself and these are perfect!

[magnoliamyrrh]

heya as an arab lesbian who also agrees w a lot of radfem stuff but also doesn’t fully align w the community, it’s actually so great to hear you talking about muslim and middle eastern stuff, positives and negatives, and seeing the nuanced way you discuss it makes me really happy so thank you :)

so sorry that im v late to reply to this!! ive been trying to go through my inbox. thank you for your message, im rly glad to hear! i try my best to talk abt things in ways that are nuanced and acknowledge that i also dont know everything bc it drives me insane how little of that i see sometimes. and it always makes me feel better knowing there's ppl who get what im saying and where im coming from <3 take care i hope you're doing okay!!! 🧡🏵

[sophieinwonderland]

I have a challenge for you and other pro-endos: name an anti-endo blog that you like. You don't have to agree with them or have even interacted with them. You just have to name an anti-endo blog that you can respect, for whatever reason.

I failed this challenge. I got this... it must have been a year ago, typed a bit, then backtracked and deleted everything. Then saved it to my drafts and basically forgot all about it.

I admire the good intentions of this, especially since it came during a period of a lot of drama. Drama that would have been bad to stoke the flames of at the time if I were to give my opinion back then. But time has passed now, so I'd like to answer this question with another question.

Would you ask a transgender person to name the TERF they respect the most?

Would you ask the non-dysphoric trans person for their favorite transmed? The Muslim to name the Islamophobe they most admire, or the lesbian to name her favorite homophobe?

Endophobia isn't any different.

There are neutrals I can respect. People who don't want involved in syscourse or don't want to pick a side because they aren't knowledgeable enough. But antis...

Most anti-endos don't believe I exist. Some will claim they think that endogenic systems are experiencing "something," but it becomes apparent pretty quickly that what they believe endogenic systems are experiencing are delusions.

And it's not like they can claim to be misinformed. Even when the creators of the theory of structural dissociation admit that there may be other ways for "self-conscious dissociative parts of the personality" to form, anti-endos act as if they know better than even them. It's not a mistake. It's willful ignorance. It's a choice to adopt a position of radical closed-mindedness to justify their hatred.

And even the ones who believe we do exist still hate us anyway.

I've personally been harassed and fakeclaimed, and dealt with more vicious and vile personal attacks than I can account because I dare to exist in public.

At its core, being anti-endo is being opposed to a marginalized community. You can't be anti-endo without being a bigot. And you can't be a bigot and a decent person.

On top of that, their hateful rhetoric has fueled communities like r/FakeDisorderCringe and r/SystemsCringe. Systems are constantly attacked and fakeclaimed in this environment, and this is in large part because anti-endos have set a standard that this type of behavior is okay.

I will respond to their posts respectfully. I don't think it's productive to respond to hate with more hate. But I don't like any members of their hate group.