#shamim sarif

[thundergrace]

Whoa!!! Hello!

Shamim Sarif (I Can't Think Straight, The World Unseen) has a new sad and culturally significant sapphic film on the festival circuit!!!

"POLARIZED (2023) trailer | BFI Flare 2023"

[folditdouble]

Women in Film Challenge 2023: [3/52] I Can't Think Straight, dir. Shamim Sarif (UK, 2007)

Thanks to you, I know what I want; and I can’t go back. I want to feel the way I did last night every day. I want to be with someone that, ten years from now, makes my heart jump when I hear her key in the door. And that someone is you.

[yourdailyqueer]

Shamim Sarif

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 24 September 1969  

Ethnicity: Indian

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer, director, screenwriter

[sultryjungle]

[heartbreakfeelsgoodinablog]

Two cultures. Two women. One love.

[queerafricans]

Queer Africans of South Asian Descent

Dolar Vasani (Uganda)

Irshad Manji (Uganda, Egypt)

Shamim Sharif (South Africa)

Kindness (South Africa)

Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria)

Githan Coopoo (South Africa)

[azarovas]

I was just thinking. You're gonna need a bigger place. Why?

I Can't Think Straight (2008) dir. Shamim Sarif

[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

Hey Jalebi! How are u? How's life going?

I just started my articleship & let's just say office tracks are only fun on screen & paper. Okay, if they would just give me some work, just something to do, instead of making us sit do nothing it would be better but whatever it'll get better (fingers crossed). So, my ask is do u read? I've been on a readers' block & pretty much anything which isn't ipk or khushi-arnav-esque doesn't interest me. I'm looking for good books, if u have any recs for a good grumpy×sunshine/enemies-to-lovers/office romance (lol, definitely not the one I shud read rn) or anything that gives the same feelz

Your favourite dupatta 🍁

Hello Hi,

OMG CONGRATS.

Hope your articleship has gotten better now! Ah, my dear, I haven't read a book in AGES and tbh, I've rarely read romance outside fanfics. (I still am a bookworm, just gotta develop it again).

I feel I'll have an easier time telling you all the love stories I've read and maybe you can see if any pique your interest?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Love Story by Eric Segal

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

I Can't Think Straight by Shamim Sarif

Most of the other romances I read were a string of free Mills & Boons books that I could catch during 2016-2020 (don't even remember their names!). Some Wattpad stuff (DO NOT RECOMMEND)

However, during my wattpad days I did find a series that you might just enjoy

Storm & Silence series by Rob Thier (there are a few problematic things but overall enjoyable with the feisty heroine stuck up hero trope and I have NOT read it again so, after years, I don't know whether it aged well or not!)\

I've read quite a few solid stuff that I just don't remember - AND I WISH I DID!

But this is pretty much it - if anyone can recommend books please drop links or recs below!

Best,

Jalebi (life is going good)

[paverics]

shamim sarif i am giving you a kiss on the mouth you’ve done it again babe you’ve made a great wlw movie congratulations to you but also to all of us who get to see it

[lesbian-books]

@93schild 

Check out lesfic by authors like Nicola Griffith, Gerri Hill, Jae, Karin Kallmaker, A.K. Larkwood, Malinda Lo, Arkady Martine, Shamim Sarif, Emily Skrutskie, Tasha Suri, Heather Walter, Sarah Waters, and Lee Winter. I think they have audiobooks of most if not all of their works.

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

DISCOVERIES IN THE PAST BRING NEW INSIGHTS TO THE PRESENT IN ‘THE WAY HOME’ ALL-NEW EPISODE PREMIERES MARCH 12, ON HALLMARK CHANNEL

STUDIO CITY, CA – March 6, 2023 – Del (Andie MacDowell, “Maid,” “Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove”) shares a long-held suspicion with Kat (Chyler Leigh, “Supergirl,” “Grey’s Anatomy”), while Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow, “The Apprentice”) comes to an emotional conclusion about her life in the past in the “Lovefool” episode of “The Way Home” premiering Sunday, March 12 (9 p.m. ET/PT), on Hallmark Channel. Evan Williams (Blonde, “Versailles”), Alex Hook (“I Am Frankie”), Al Mukadam (“Pretty Hard Cases,” “The Detail”), Jefferson Brown (Masters of Romance, “Slasher”) and David Webster (Luckiest Girl Alive, “In the Dark”) also star.

When Kat travels to the past she gains a surprising, new insight into the effect Jacob’s disappearance had on Del and Colton (Brown). Back in the present day, Del shares a disturbing revelation that prompts Kat to return to 2000 on a quest for answers. When an old friend shows up in Port Haven for a visit, Alice realizes her relationship has no future and makes a difficult decision.

“The Way Home” is a Neshama Entertainment production in association with MarVista Entertainment. Heather Conkie, Alexandra Clarke, Fernando Szew, Hannah Pillemer, Larry Grimaldi, Ani Kevork, Arnie Zipursky, Marly Reed, Suzanne Berger, Lauren MacKinlay, MacDowell and Leigh are executive producers. Kyle Hart is supervising producer. Jessica Runck is consulting producer. Tally Yong Knoll is story editor. The series is produced by John Calvert. Shamim Sarif directed from a script by Reed.

[aelin9]

I love this list! My favourite reads this year with sapphics are:

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

Breaking Character by Lee Winter

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (the sequel Those Beyond the Wall is spectacular too, and the protagonist is a bisexual woman who has women partners throughout the book, but at the end she is with a man fyi)

I Can't Think Straight by Shamim Sarif

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Captive in the Underworld by Lianyu Tan

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

The Mimicking of Known Successes and The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea and A Pirate's Life For Tea by Rebecca Thorne

A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo

Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Ash and Huntress by Malinda Lo

Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

In Charm's Way by Lana Harper

The Philistine by Leila Marshy

[carpeomnias-blog]

"Every night I empty my heart, but by morning it's full again.

Slow droplets of you seep in through the night's soft caress.

At dawn, I overflow with thoughts of us

An aching pleasure that gives me no respite.

Love cannot be contained, the neat packaging of desire

Splits asunder, spilling crimson through my days.

Long, languishing days that are now bruised tender with yearning,

Spent searching for a fingerprint, a scent, a breath you left behind."

By: Shamim Sarif

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I CAN’T THINK STRAIGHT — 2008, dir. Shamim Sarif

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THE WORLD UNSEEN (2007) dir. Shamim Sarif In 1950s Cape Town, progressive and free Amina co-owns a cafe with a black man named Jacob. One day, a beautiful housewife named Miriam visits the cafe, and Amina is instantly smitten. Miriam runs a store outside of town with her husband, Omar, and feels increasingly stifled in her conventional life. She cannot help but give in to her desire when Amina comes calling. (link in title)