Next Move ✨

15 true stories of family, faith, love, migration & belonging. Gay Arab American and Middle-Eastern Men by Randy Fair. خمس عشرة قصة عن الحب والهوية والانتماء. Available now — link in bio. #GayArab #ArabAmerican #QueerBooks

7 Sept

Gay. Arab. Anti-Zionist. Proud. 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 If your reply is “throw him off a building,” don’t pretend you care about queer lives. Palestinians don’t have to approve of my sexuality to deserve to live. My rainbow is not your permission slip for bombing civilians. #FreePalestine #QueerRights

7 Sept

Queer freedom and Palestinian freedom are not bargaining chips. What does solidarity look like when it refuses to erase either? Disagreement is welcome; dehumanization isn’t.

2 Sept

Help build a queer Arab/SWANA reading list: name one book you recommend, and I’ll gather the replies into a community list. ساعدوني في بناء قائمة قراءة كويرية عربية: اقترحوا كتابًا واحدًا لنصنع معًا قائمة مشتركة. #BookSky

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Haifa Wehbe’s “Nogha” turned into a MEGA moment—my four-second celebration. 💋🔥 What made you replay it: the hook, attitude, or visuals? شو أكتر شي علّق معكم: اللحن، الطاقة، أو الكليب؟ Queer Arab joy + Arab pop. 🏳️‍🌈 #Nogha #HaifaWehbe #QueerArab

I’m Ameer—one of the fifteen men in this book. Queer Arab lives are often flattened into headlines; these pages make room for love, faith, migration, contradiction, and belonging. If one of those words is yours too, tell me which one.

Next Move ✨@sinbad1993.bsky.social

atmospherepress.comGay Arab American and Middle-Eastern Men, by Randy Fair | Atmosphere PressWhat if you could sit down for coffee with fifteen gay Middle Eastern men and hear their stories—their loves, struggles, and triumphs? This collection invites readers into these conversations, offerin...

Which story calls to you most—family, faith, migration, love, or belonging? أي قصة تلامسك أكثر؟ Reply with one word. Read the official book page: atmospherepress.com/books/gay-ar...

18 Aug

I'm Ameer-one of fifteen men featured in Randy Fair's Gay Arab American and Middle-Eastern Men. I'm not the author; I'm one of the lives inside these pages. The dance stopped your scroll. The pages hold the life. What is one thing a label could never tell about you? #GayArabAmericans

My politics began at the bedside: who gets believed, held, and abandoned. Gay. Iraqi. American. Hospice RN becoming a psych NP. Tenderness taught me power. Palestine taught me silence is a choice. Desire taught me shame is political. Where did your politics begin?

They asked me to choose: Arab or queer, grateful or angry, beautiful or political. I chose to become difficult to summarize.

Some people call it contradiction when the person they tried to divide becomes whole. What were you asked to erase to be accepted?

You weren’t supposed to find this. The water is warm, the alibi is perfect, and someone powerful is about to make a very beautiful mistake. Stay close. 🖤 Shot by Nikon; no AI have been used

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Elizabeth Warren

@warren.senate.gov

We need to protect Social Security for the next generation.

I came to America chasing a white coat. I became a nurse instead. Hospice taught me that a failed dream can still become useful—if you stop embalming it and listen to what survived. Plan B did not rescue me. It introduced me to myself.

What dream changed shape without losing its purpose?

PLAN D: Democracy. “Back to normal” is a strange campaign promise when normal already charged admission. For a gay Iraqi, a trans voter, or a patient priced out of care, restoration is not a future. Democrats must build what never existed. What belongs in that blueprint?

Context: The Advocate reports that Pete Buttigieg told a Provincetown fundraiser Democrats need a vision beyond restoring the pre-Trump status quo. What should replace it—not merely be restored? bsky.app/profile/advo...

The Advocate@advocate.com

At a Provincetown fundraiser for Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, the former transportation secretary argued Democrats need a vision beyond restoring the pre-Trump status quo.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

I’m a gay Iraqi shaped by war and hospice. I write about queer Arab freedom, Palestine, democracy, healthcare, and the dark comedy of surviving other people’s expectations. English + العربية. Personal views—not medical advice. Disagreement welcome; dehumanization isn’t.

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@mayor.nyc.gov

3 Aug

1 Aug

BETWEEN TWO RIVERS — CHAPTER I LANGUAGE HAD. Cameras preserve faces. Language preserves souls. Some people inherit family photographs. Others inherit silence. 🧵 1/5

dingleberrynw.bsky.social

18 July

According to the internet, as an Arab I wad supposed to arrive on a camel, yelling at people occupy the dance floor, Propaganda must be exhausted terrifying everyone. Reality: I showed up with a keffiyeh, danced until closing, and received positive feedback regarding the country 🇵🇸 🐪🏳️‍🌈🍉✨

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@dingleberrynw.bsky.social

12 July

First, you are a sexy fucker🔥🔥🔥 Second, you are absolutely correct, Trump and Netanyahu are mass murderers and guilty of genocide.