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From anfona to zalamiyya: Here’s your queer cultural guide to Arab slang

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Lebanon-born graphic designer, writer and visual artist Marwan Kaabour discusses his debut book which playfully maps out the dynamic lexicon of the LGBTQIA+ Arab community.   WORDS BY ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH It’s not always safe to step into the world of queerness. Often, we wonder how our identities will be received, even just by being ourselves. And, sometimes, we don’t even have the means – the labels or terms – to express who we really are. We craft new words to bridge the gap between the words on our tongue and the…

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Articles Author Books Brontez Purnell Culture Interview LGBTQ+ Community LGBTQIA+ community memoir News Originals Sex

Punk polymath Brontez Purnell on the cult of masculinity, trimming weed and the ‘McDonaldisation’ of identity

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To mark the release of his poetic memoir Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt, the writer reflects on twenty years of writing and living queer life in candid conversation with Eli Cugini WORDS BY ELI CUGINI HEADER DESIGN BY YOSEF PHELAN Anyone who thinks that polymaths don’t exist anymore probably hasn’t met Brontez Purnell. The Oakland-based novelist, musician, dancer, filmmaker, zine maker — and overall ‘pretty Black boy’ extraordinaire (to quote his interview with Steve Lacy) — can now add ‘poet’ and ‘memoirist’ to the list. Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt follows Pernell’s…

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Jason Okundaye’s history of Black gay life is a quiet revelation

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Jason Okundaye on the unearthing of Black British queer history, the decline of brick-and-mortar LGBTQIA+ spaces and how Revolutionary Acts explores the quiet revolutions of the everyday.  WORDS BY OTAMERE GUOBADIA HEADER DESIGN BY YOSEF PHELAN “More than anything, this book has been a love letter to these men, founded on a curiosity and appetite to know about people’s lives,” Jason Okundaye writes in the final pages of his outstanding debut, Revolutionary Acts. Indeed it is this curiosity and appetite, that steers Okundaye’s vivid and vital slice of Black gay…

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