🇵🇸 The algorithm is going to keep silencing my posts, but they're not going to silence me. I grew up with little to no books that made me feel seen as a queer/bisexual Palestinian Arab American. Today, it's still not easy enough to find those books online, even though we have thousands of lists, posts, and directories to guide us. To make your search a little easier, here are a few queer Palestinian books to add to your TBR. Please help me spread this by reblogging. Consider adding these to your least for Read Palestine Week (click for resources)! 💜
🍉 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher
🇵🇸 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
🍉 Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam
🇵🇸 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha
🍉 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
🇵🇸 The Specimen's Apology by George Abraham
🍉 Birthright by George Abraham
🇵🇸 Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata
🍉 Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger
🇵🇸 The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan
🍉 Guapa by Saleem Haddad
🇵🇸 From Whole Cloth: An Asexual Romance by Sonia Sulaiman
🍉 The Philistine by Leila Marshy
🇵🇸 Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar
🍉 Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi
🇵🇸 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan
🍉 Belladonna by Anbara Salam
🇵🇸 Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas, Karnessa, Hackto Oshiro
🍉 Blood Orange by Yaffa As
🇵🇸 The ordeal of being known by Malia Rose
🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine by Walaa Alqaisiya
🇵🇸 Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah, Ellen Georgiou
🍉 This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
🇵🇸 My Mama's Magic by Amina Awad
I pieced this quilt. The pattern is called Batty by Apples and Beavers. My friend Becky did the custom quilting. While the quilting was NOT cheap, it is incredible! It really brings the quilt to life! I could not be more thrilled! I’d love to know what you all think of it. The photos are Becky’s as I don’t have it back home yet. SPOOKTACULAR!!!
Lots of dialogue, recommend clicking into the pictures to read clearly!
Summary: The bat is in good care, and Halsin tells Astarion some...interesting things about bats, while Karlach goes into protect mode.
Original post that inspired this is linked in part 1!
Part 1
{Edited the sizes of images, they were so blurry!!!}
Finally, here is the continuation of The Pale Bat! There will be more updates, but I think once I’m done with this current emotion-heavy beginning(sorry not sorry) it will soon become more of a slice of life type of comic, just little stories of the party and the bat. Got a little carried away at the end there, but I just thought I had to give Astarion’s story some justice, so I did.
Also please forgive me if the bat informations are incorrect, I just pulled them out of thin air, and feel free to throw correct bat-facts at me in the ask-box or just ask about the comic! Hope you enjoy this update, and stay tuned for more ;)