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Mintendo96

@mintendo96

Queer Palestinian | She/He/They/Per | bi lesbian | intersex | genderfluid woman (tme) | disabled
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moodybites asked:

I was wondering if there are any historical Palestinian paintings (similar in age and cultural influence as the western painting you referenced in your last piece) that you admire? And would you ever make an illustration based off of it (again similar to your latest Asma and Cullen piece)?

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chanafehs answered:

Hi thank you!! I’m so glad you like my stuff! I'm so so sorry if this is long because it's such a simple question but the answer is a bit complicated.

I will just say painting people like 100+ years ago is something that’s not very common in Palestine or in Southwest Asia altogether. Portrait painting or just paintings with humans in general is not something you’ll see a lot of in the region due to cultural and religious reasons - it’s a very long tricky subject (like I could source whole books on this), but there is a lot of taboo around drawing people. Especially among Arab Sunnis who make up the majority of the Palestinian population. There are exceptions and there *are* paintings and pottery work we have with people on them from the region; it’s just not common. Also, due to record keeping we just don’t have a lot of sources on artists at the time.

For Palestinian Artists specifically, we start to see art with people in contemporary work. However, Palestine was a hotbed for the orientalist imagination so we do have paintings of Palestinians from around that time - it's just not done by Palestinians.

I'm sure you already know but a lot of European Artists were traveling through the Ottoman Empire and specifically Palestine for their own religious reasons to 'capture' what they saw as the closest thing they could find to life described in the Bible. Palestine essentially provided them a backdrop for their Christian artwork. They saw us as historical curiosities at best and barbaric savages stuck in the past at worst. Despite that, some of the paintings are quite beautiful, and there is an attention to detail with our clothing styles.

There aren't a lot of contemporary Palestinian paintings by Palestinian artists that I think fall close enough to what I drew but I can think of two who kind of fall in that semi-realism ballpark.

There's Irina Naji

and Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan (he's probably my favorite)

If there was any illustration I'd recreate for Cullen and Asma in that kind of style, it would probably be this one. It has the right amount of yearning Cullsma needs

anyways. A lot of me yapping but Palestinian art is like an onion. There are many layers and things and you have to dig through them because a surface-level view is not going to tell you what you need to know, but thank you so much! I hope this was enough to answer your ask and I'm honored you are interested! I hope you have a great day/night :)

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i am really not looking forward to tumblr pretending that JK Rowling posting one mean (and yes obviously bigoted) tweet about asexual people is the same thing as spending the last ten years of her life (& millions of pounds) dedicated to stripping trans women specifically of all of our rights.

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literally. when i see people say “oh she’s working her way up through the queer community” all i can hear is “first they came for the trans women, but I did nothing because I am not a trans woman”. the response has made it utterly clear that people don’t give a shit about transmisogyny.

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i just really dont understand this whole "you cant say you hate men or you'll scare your transmasc friends and make them feel unsafe" thing im sorry like i have plenty of transfem friends and mutuals who are "misandrists" or "transandrophobes" and it has never bothered me at all and i know plenty of other trans men who feel the same way

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and i think it's shitty to tell transfems to "stop hating men" just to spare the feelings of a handful of insecure tboys who probably weren't all that supportive of trans women to begin with if a couple of "i hate men" posts are enough to make them cut ties

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i will say re:butch/femme, i was exploring my gender on tumblr around the time there was a bunch of discourse over like, these labels having very specific meanings beyond "masc/fem", who was and was not allowed to call themselves butch/femme, etc etc and the general understanding that this was basically a strict social script for an in-group to use, and all that just scared me out of using the terms as anything other than adjectives for a good while.

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there was also a big scare about how "butch/fem is NOT just heterosexuality for lesbians!!!" and ill be real... i get that its shitty coming from a guy and i do get that by definition two women having a sexual/romantic relationship are going to be queer, but when it moves from "these are aesthetics that some people look for" and "its okay for a woman to have short hair/tattoos/use tools/etc etc butch signifier", and into, again, strict roles with a sort of social script... some people (NOT ALL) are rolling masculinity/dominance/topping and femininity/submission/bottoming all into a binary, and frankly i think that's worth criticizing.

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and again i think that played into this Canonization of a very specific late-20th-century US city queer experience as the definitive queer experience, that we must use their language and idolize their writers and retvrn to the prelapsarian days of reposted DTWOF comics and i hope you can pick up some of my disdain for this strain of queer thought

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also to be clear, i don't think those terms are Inherently Evil And Fascist, they're good words with an interesting history! my actual Calls To Action are thus;

  1. Don't gatekeep "Butch" and "Femme" in an attempt to roleplay a bunch of Gen X yanks. It's a big world out there and butch/femme never JUST meant what it did in that setting.
  2. Check yourself in regards to associating masculinity/femininity with dominance/submission. If you're gonna treat these signifiers as inherently dom/sub, like, do so with the knowledge that you're doing a bit of kink play and dont let it carry into your day to day.
  3. Do not fucking call a transgender woman "butch" unless you know that's a term she self-identifies with. Yes we know you're using it to signify queer womanhood, but you are also still highlighting her similarities to the way we expect men to perform, and that is a fucking touchy subject. Also while we're here, same deal for WOC, ESPECIALLY black women, and ESPECIALLY trans black women holy shit. Check your association of dark skin/blackness with dominance/masculinity.
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Bro racism is persuasive but there’s NOTHING on the level of antiblack racism out there……… like I could be having a totally normal convo w someone who seems very likable and then they just say something antiblack racist out of nowhere . And it’s like why? For what?

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One time I was explaining what it was like being Palestinian to some dude in class, he was nodding along and seeming to get it and then just said the most out of pocket Anti-Black thing in an attempt to show he cared? I told him he was wrong and I quit the class that day.

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Hi girls, let’s do something! Reblog to this post with a picture of yourself, or a transition timeline if you feel comfortable about it, and things that make you happy and comfortable about yourself! To spread a bit of positivity, and show the girls that are scared that there’s joy on the other side.

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I wrote this all out once and then tumblr ate it as it was posting so I’m writing it again out of fucking spite.

Instead of a basic transition timeline, I wanna write something for the transfemmes who had their transitions delayed because of someone else, who are scared they may never be safe to transition. It’s worth surviving until you escape and can create yourself, I promise you.

In 2016, when I was 20, I first started to have realizations of Gender. I was dating my most abusive partner at the time, a semi-closeted transmasc who forced me to stop exploring my gender because of their own insecurities snd internalized transphobia - and because of how abusive the relationship was, I stopped out of fear and banished the thought from my mind. We were together for three-ish years.

These photos are the first time I put on makeup for myself that wasn’t for a costume or performance, taken about 30 minutes apart in 2016.

In January 2019, I finally escaped them safely, and immediately came out as an any-pronouns enby who often had curated facial hair. I knew nothing really about HRT and didn’t have any transfemme friends I could talk to more about it at the time. I kept my presentation and pronouns fluid through 2020-ish.

I’m including a small range of photos from this period bc I want y’all to see me experimenting with femme looks as well as having masc looks. I also used breastforms/inserts at this point depending on the day/look. These are from roughly 2019/2020:

In 2021, I started hormones (pills), stopped letting people use “he” pronouns at all for me, and settled on “They” as my primary pronoun. I also started focusing more on styling myself femininely and figuring out what I liked/wanted.

In 2022, I started interacting with the local trans community a lot more and started injections/monotherapy, which I found worked a *lot* better for me than pills.

These photos are from 2021/22:

Over 2023/24/25, I’ve increased my dosages, added progesterone, and have found better skincare/hair care routines for myself. I’d like to have surgeries eventually, but that’s complicated by the fact that many FFS surgeons only know how to work within white standards of beauty, and don’t know how to preserve “ethnic features” especially for Black trans women.

I also stopped allowing nonblack people to use “she/her/girl” pronouns for me for complicated racial reasons (although I still use other feminine terms), added “Fae/faer” as my primary pronouns in addition to “They/them”, and realized a lot more about my gender! I still identify as a non-binary trans woman, however.

These photos are from recently:

I wanted to say all this because I never thought I’d escape that relationship I mentioned and get to be myself. We broke up a week before we would’ve gotten married. I didn’t have hope and I thought being able to be who I really am was just.. lost to me. And I was wrong.

Even if it takes you longer to get there, even if you’re not safe right now or don’t feel comfortable right now, it’s worth surviving until you can, I promise. I wish I had been able to be myself in those three years I “lost” too, but I’m so fucking happy to be who I am now. I’ve been through a LOT of trauma since those first photos, I’m not gonna pretend it was easy to survive until now, but it’s so fucking worth it.

One day you’ll get to be the one telling younger trans women how it was hard for you to survive until you could transition, but that it’s so worth it to keep going until you can.

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Sharing this again for TDOV with a photo from today :3

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Please share everyone 🙏

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Anonymous asked:

I’m in that weird “this person is right but not for that reason” place again, this time about the “trans men are punished in queer contexts for being queer” anon, because that’s like. that’s silly, right? that’s not how that works, like at all

I mean, you could maybe say they’re punished for being trans, even in queer contexts, esp when they’re surrounded by cis queer people (though still not to the same extent we are), but that would require acknowledging a lot of queer spaces are really transphobic

strawberry-crocodile answered:

okay but ww're treating queerness here as a monolith of undifferentiated experiences, and i think it is fully possible for a Queer Space full of Queer People to still have a narrow band of queer expression that they recognize and endorse, with anything outside of that being... understood as queer, yes, but not necessarily treated with comfort and welcoming. from "no fats no fems no asians" to "see lesbians arent ALL Ugly Butches!" to yknow, transmisogyny within the community... biases run deep, and just because people are willing to carve out an exception for themselves and their friends like them doesnt mean all other biases up and vanish. solidarity is not efforless, it is a choice we have to make and continue to make.

there are communities where transness is accepted so long as it stays within the bounds of, like, afabs with short hair who havent been on hormones; a trans guy hanging out with them might get pushback for pursuining a more... radical transition. and since hes in a Queer Trans Space, its an easy jump to assume it's because he's masculine, and not because there are still transphobic boundaries put up by his community that he's crossed, even if they're further boundaries than your average conservative.

and of course the reason we need to describe this as transphobia within a queer/trans community and not "anti-masculinity" is that any political theory that posits men as uniquely punished for being men is basically two thirds of the way to antifeminism, if not already there. "you just hate me because the queer community hates masculinity" is a thought-terminating cliche that can and does shut dowm feminist- and specifically transfeminist- discussion.

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one consequence of transmisogyny (but not unique to it) is that it makes you into a paranoiac. take the example of the "degendering they" or like the "backhanded compliment," relatively minor interpersonal interactions that trans women increasingly feel hypervigilant about. it's probably counterproductive to assume everyone who gives you a compliment or refers to you as "they" or "this person" (<- phrase that actually revolts me a little now in this context) is doing so condescendingly, in a malicious or even just incidentally diminishing way. but also, everything about your life as a trans woman encourages you to be on alert for these kinds of cues, because if you're not paying attention to them then when the hammer drops it will hit that much harder.

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just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.

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yeah, he sure is

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i deeply apologize to everyone that i have hurt by suggesting that a former IDF prison guard who voluntarily left the safety of his home in the United States to seize the once in a lifetime opportunity to work inside of an Israeli concentration camp where he claims to have met the "one logical Palestinian" he's ever encountered in his life might have some kind of incentive for not exposing the full and unleashed depravity of US military operations against the Yemenis, who are the only people in the world actively working against stopping the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians that has been carried out for the last year and a half. this is a man with entirely pure intentions. after all, The Atlantic is a reputable, courageous and independent news publication. i shouldn't have dared besmirch their name.

i understand that every post about Israel or the IDF or hell, even the Middle East, at the end of the day, is a ruthless and unfair attack on you and your way of life. all of these people on the internet humanizing Arabs and Muslims and children and women and condemning them being raped and blown to pieces... they just keep focusing on the wrong things and it's probably extremely, extremely scary for you, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with you or Judaism whatsoever. or is it that you think that everything Israel does is truly in the name of Judaism? because i don't think that.

ultimately, there is only one thing to consider in this 75+ year occupation and extermination of an indigenous people: how any criticism might make you feel deep down inside. that is what we need to focus on and i can see now that i've made a grave mistake.

furthermore, i can't put myself in your shoes, so i can't imagine how it must feel to have to see someone suggest that the US media apparatus might be providing cover to a country that you've never been to, that you weren't born in, who desires to be an entirely pure religious fundamentalist ethnostate so badly that it's willing to slaughter, rape and desecrate the bodies of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and Arabs in order to achieve it's goals. all i can do is hope that you heal from this.

most of all, i'm sorry to Mr. Goldberg, whose honorable service as a Concentration Guard Camp has been besmirched. at the time, i did not realize that suggesting a reporter being a former member of the IDF might influence the way he views the current genocide that the IDF is carrying out. but i can see clearly now that there was a secret, evil embedded message in my four-word reblog that blamed this on every Jewish person in America. i hope one day you can forgive me.

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Anonymous asked:

Did someone ever ask the Tumblr Zio Folk what they think of the descendents of the Jews... who converted to Islam in the last thousand years? And who still live in the Levant? In Palestine??

Like, do these people even exist in the minds of the "landback" "we're doing anti-colonialism" Jewish Zionists?

tamamita answered:

Palestinian Christians are arguably the oldest community of Christians in the world, having had a continuous presence in the Holy Land. Their history can be traced back as far as the Apostolic age when they were referred to as Jewish Christians. Their identity as Arabs only came as a result of the Islamic expansion which culminated in them forming their own ethnic and cultural identity, some converted to Islam, some did not, same case with the Jews and Samaritans who intermingled with the Christian and Arab community at that time, hence why Palestinians still retain much of their Levant heritage, this is attested even by Israeli archeologist and genealogists. Even if these Zionists wish to obfuscate the fact that Palestinians has had a consistent presence in the Holy land, the fact is that Palestinians are of Jewish descent and have far more right to be in that land than some White ass Yankee nobody who happens to be Jewish, or some convert student from Philadelphia who apparently has a greater right to citizenship in the settler state than a native Palestinian.

You can skim through every literature made the by earliest Zionists thinkers, such as Herzl, Ha'am, Hess, Borochov, Jabotinsky, Weizmann and Ben Gurion, one thing you'll notice is that they are exceptionally damn proud of being Europeans and were all inspired by the European nationalist wave.

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#Love to see people talk about us Palestinian Christians!
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Save Palestinian Jordanian Trans & Queer Couple
I'm a lesbian living in a toxic environment. My father recently found out about me and ever since he has been my biggest nightmare about it.
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Sharing a fundraiser, not my own but sent by a comrade, see below:

About Yusra

I'm a lesbian living in a toxic environment. My father recently found out about me and ever since he has been my biggest nightmare about it. He is violent and won’t let me leave the house except to uni and I am fearing for my life because my studies are ending soon. 

About Akram

I’m a trans man living in Palestine. My life is hell, because of the genocide and I face constant abuse from my family and everyone else and I’m afraid to be taken by the police. I also can’t get a job because I'm trans.

Please help us to escape our dangerous situations and live a dignified life together. 

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If you can't donate, please share our story to help us reach others who can support our journey.

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