Check out our new article: Queer and Trans Subjects in Iranian Cinema: Between Representation, Agency, and Orientalist Fantasies
“Historically, some European men who came into contact with the Middle East both fantasized about and denounced the closed-door sexual lives of Middle Eastern men and women, especially homosocial spaces and same-sex relations. European women, on the other hand, sought to save their Oriental “sisters” whom they viewed as oppressed by their religion and Oriental men, as elucidated by Harvard Professor Leila Ahmed in her book, Women and Gender in Islam. These attitudes toward Middle Easterners continue to this day, an example of which can be found in the movie Circumstance whose relatively positive public reception in the West arises from this conformity to Western Orientalist imaginaries, whereas the movie Facing Mirrors disrupts and challenges the hegemonic and Orientalizing narrative of Iran’s sexual and gender minorities, and is thus ignored and excluded from the cultural and artistic public domain.”
what do you do when someone tells you to give fellatio to a Zionist out of anger
do you just laugh and say ok because that’s what I did
that may be the strangest way to protest the occupation of Palestine I’ve ever heard of
what do you do when someone tells you to give fellatio to a Zionist out of anger
do you just laugh and say ok because that’s what I did
Malek Jahan Khanom, Mahd-e Olia, (Persian: ملک جهان خانم، مهدِ عُلیا), (born Malek Jahan Khanom Qajar Qovanlou, 26 February 1805 - 2 April 1873) was a Persian princess of the Qajar dynasty, consort of Mohammad Shah Qajar of Persia (reign 1834-1848) and the mother of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. She was the granddaughter of Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar of Persia and the cousin of her spouse, Mohammad Shah Qajar. (via wikipedia)
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Yazd, 2012 - just an other amazing picture my friend Patrick took when we were travelling Iran.
