Every pride month I recall the Indian gran Zohra Sehgal in *Bend it like Beckham* confusing ‘lesbian’ with ‘Lebanese’: Lebanese? But, we are Indian!’
What if we demanded an end to this ruthless war on Lebanon, Iran … because we ARE Lebanese.
As Palestinian queers remind us:
No Pride in Genocide!
A 2026 Indian film on Punjab’s 1947 partition and ensuing trauma ends with footage from Palestine, ICE raids, and refugee camps across our world. Filmmakers / artists know what it means to lose our humanity. I may not watch this film, but Imtiaz Ali, the director, will have my heart.
I will absolutely unfollow or mute you if you simp for the very Democrats who are the reason we are in this disgusting situation right now. My God, it is 2026, stop with the worship of the Clintons and Obama and their Islamophobic warmongering asses
A powerful film of Indian cinema: women’s resistance to empire & its Indian cronies. The white British are the unseen behemoth, controlling Indian men, ordering them to control women.
1986, Smita Patil holding a sickle, witnesses her women colleagues throw chillies in the eyes of empire’s rep!
The geopolitical west doesn’t get queer. The archive is ongoing. The west studies queer through curated performances but no practice that implicates queerness into culture.
This is not a performance but just folks hanging out together to sing women’s songs, or songs of people we read as women.
Audre Lorde: “Guilt is an imperfect form of human knowledge.”
Please allow me. I’ve spent more years with this person on this planet than without. 26 years gone by in a fraction of moment!