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Kiss My Genders edited by Amrou Al-Kadhi

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Kiss My Genders celebrates more than 30 international artists whose work explores and challenges traditional gender categories. The book features works from the late 1960s through to the present, and focuses on artists who draw on their own experiences to create content and forms that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender. These include Lyle Ashton Harris, Sadie Benning, Nayland Blake, Jimmy DeSana, Chitra Ganesh, Peter Hujar, Juliana Huxtable, Zoe Leonard, Renate Lorenz and Pauline Boudry, Kent Monkman, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Christina Quarles and Del LaGrace Volcano, among many others. Working across mediums, many of these artists treat the body as a sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty and representations of the human form. From pop culture and gender dissidence to the embrace of the "monstrous" or "freaky," from the politics of pose to transfeminism and politics on the street, each of these artists throws light on a different way of seeing.

Mod opinion: I haven't heard of this anthology before, but it sounds interesting and definitely includes an interesting collection of people! If I ever have extra time and am able to find a copy, I think this could be really interesting to read.

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Queer people of faith are ripped apart in all directions. But it is in the delicate art of re-seaming these wounds that transcendence abounds

Amrou Al-Kadhi in The Book of Queer Prophets edited by Ruth Hunt

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Back to Black (2024) Review

The life and music of Amy Winehouse, documenting her rise to fame and the struggles that she had within her personal life. Highlighting the creation of one of the most incredible albums of all time with Back to Black. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Back to Black (2024) Review

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Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between

Amrou Al-Kadhi

A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themselfWINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD

Amrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first sight.

Amrou's parents weren't so happy...

From that moment on, Amrou began searching in all the wrong places for ways to make their divided self whole again.

Life as a Unicorn is a hilarious yet devastating story of a search for belonging, following the painful and surprising process of transforming from a god-fearing Muslim boy to a queer drag queen, strutting the stage in seven-inch heels and saying the things nobody else dares to ....

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updates on fc masterlists:

fat/plus size:

Adrian Martinez (1972) Mexican - actor and comedian. 

Rose Flanagan (?) - actress.

Steph Tisdell (?) Ydinji - comedian and actress.

Stevey Hunter (?) - non-binary (they/them) - actor.

nonb:

Jo Vannicola (1968) - they/ze - actor.

Anton/ia Campbell-Hughes (1982) - they/she - actor and writer.

Cortni Vaughn Joyner (1985) African-American - actor.

Kliey Sparks (1987) - they/them - actor, writer, singer and producer.

Melanie Hinkle (1992) - non-binary butch - him/she/them - actor.

Aubrey Peeples (1993) - she/they - actor.

Justin Cabanting (1994) Filipino and Samoan - he/they, is bisexual - actor.

Sophia Forrest (1994) - she/they, and is queer - actor.

Terry Hu (1995) Chinese or Taiwanese - they/them - actor.

 Jacki Gunn (1996) - actor and comedian. 

George Todd McLachlan (1997) - he/she/they - actor.

Anairis Quinones (1997) Afro Puerto Rican - voice actor.

Seth C. Marks (1998) Unspecified - he/she/they - actor. 

Keara Graves (1999) - genderfluid and non-binary - they/she - actor.

Damian Joseph Quinn (?) - he/she/they - actor.

Ari Notartomaso (?) - they/he - actor.

Mara Junot (?) African-American - they/she - actor.

Ally Kloster (?) - they/she - actor.

Chris Renfro (?) Chinese and Filipino  - they/them - actor.

Z Infante (?) Unspecified - they/them - actor.

Luis Chávez (?)  Mexican, Unspecified Indigenous - they/them - actor.

Nicole Orabona (?) Puerto Rican - they/she - actor.

Thomas Ochoa (?) Unspecified Latine - he/they - actor.

Morgan Berry (?) - voice actor and singer.

Ashton Swinford (?) - she/they - actor.

Onix Serrano (?) Puerto Rican - they/them - actor.

Brian Knoebel (?) - they/them - actor.

Rhemy Ashton (?) Filipinx - they/them - actor.

Catherine Adell (?) - they/she - actor.

Yuming Hey (?) Unspecified Asian - actor.

Lola Kelly (?) - they/them - actor.

Rami Margron (?) Unspecified - they/them - actor.

Spencer Madison (?) Mexican and Zuni Pueblo - actor.

Thea Touchton (?) Colombian, French, Polish - non-binary and pansexual - actor.

Kamaria Williams (?) African-American - they/them, bisexual and pansexual - actor.

Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (?) Black British - they/them - actor.

added that Olive Gray and Dua Saleh has resources!

updated Dua Saleh, Jesse Leigh, Kai Wes, Jemma Mae's, Amir Levi's pronouns!

added Amrou Al-Kadhi's age!

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INSTAGRAM: MARINA ROCKS FREYA & RAY-BAN

Marina posted a bunch of photos with friends back in August, including this selfie she took with her friend Amrou Al-Kadhi during a pool party!

The Welsh bombshell looked radiant, wearing the Maui Daze tropical print bikini by her go-to swimwear label Freya. Check out all the other bikinis she wore by that specific brand right here!

Her sunglasses of choice were Ray-Ban’s Hawkeye model with glossy black frame and green-tinted lenses.

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Books read in 2023

Deep Wheel Orcadia - Harry Josephine Giles

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Forge and the Flood - Miles Nelson

Affinity - Sarah Waters

The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem

Life as a Unicorn - Amrou Al-Kadhi

Loveless - Alice Oseman (re-read)

There But For The - Ali Smith

Love - Jeanette Winterson

Dead Dead Girls - Nekesa Afia

Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones

Maybe In Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Curse Workers series - Holly Black (re-read)

Cosmoknights - Hannah Templer

She Drives Me Crazy - Kelly Quindlen

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid

How To Be Famous - Caitlin Moran

Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny

Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Companion Piece - Ali Smith

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers

Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Goddess Chronicles - Natsuo Kirino

One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu

The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank (re-read)

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

Speak of the Devil - Rose Wilding (audiobook)

Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

Since You've Been Gone - Morgan Matson (re-read)

Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston (re-read)

Chain of Thorns - Cassandra Clare (audiobook)

Babel - R. F. Kuang

Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett (re-read)

A Caribbean Mystery - Agatha Christie (re-read)

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka

Yellowface - Rebecca Kuang

Dissolution - CJ Sansom

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins (re-read)

The Once and Future Witches - Alix E Harrow

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Sundance 2024 Film Review: Layla ★★★1/2

“We’re all born naked and the rest is drag”, RuPaul has been pointing out for decades. British-Iraqi-Egyptian filmmaker Amrou Al-Kadhi’s assured feature directorial and screenwriting debut Layla, which just premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance, could be seen as an engaging narrative thesis on that playful, but astute observation. As the film opens, we are taken…

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Ohh this anthology just sings to my heart. And I really didn’t expect this, not being an Arab myself. Also I had just read a couple of good books when I picked it up so surely the law of averages would work against it. Plus with virtually any anthology, the level of quality typically varies wildly from one entry to another.

But the first essay was a really strong essay by Mona Eltahawy. “I am writing this almost exactly ten years after I died. The Mona I used to be died on 24 November 2011, on a street called Mohamed Mahmoud, near Tahrir Square, Cairo.” She wrote of coming into an understanding of herself, and much of it resonated with me. “When Y and I had penis-to-vagina sex I stopped reading the Quran. I could not stand reading the word ‘fornicators’ repeated again and again.” She wove her personal experiences with her reading of Adrienne Rich, Ursula Halligan, Bareed Mista3jil—an edited volume of women experiences in Lebanon, and June Jordan. She quoted Jordan, “Bisexuality means I am free.”

She admitted to a man in a queer club in Bosnia in 2016 that she too, is a bisexual. This after in 2013 her not using any label and did not explore her attraction to women, and in 2015 email exchange not ready to say that she is not only polyamorous but also bisexual. I felt triumphant reading her progression and my heart warmed so much.

This was followed by Salem Haddad, writing about his return to Beirut. When he learned of the explosion he was at the gym in Lisbon. “I stood in the center of the gym for a long time, examining the photos and sending messages to friends. Around me, the world continued as normal. The gym attendant scolded me for not wiping the kettlebell after I used it. It was impossible to grieve from afar.” When he got to Beirut, he hooked up with a lover. “I am reminded of why I have spent eighteen months pining for him, why I wrote and published an entire story inspired by him: because something about him — his eyes, his smile, his calves — reminds me of home, my childhood, Mediterranean beaches and hot, humid summers.”

“In this moment though I feel estranged from so many things, I feel at home in my desire; it is a return of sorts, to live in the moment, to bring the encounter to the light, devoid of shame. It is a sort of homecoming, a return to oneself.”

I can go on for nearly each and every essay. Dima Mikhayel Marta’s story of his father (‘promises to cumin are not kept’), Amrou Al-Kadhi’ clash with their mother.

Danny Ramadan’s essay paved the path for what is the most resonant essay in the collection for me: Anbara Salam’s Unheld Conversations. Ramadan: “There is a tendency among the audiences of marginalized authors to assume that every piece of writing is a reflection of real-life events that the author went through.”

Salam: “just before my second novel, Belladonna, was published, I have each of my parents an advance proof copy. They had both read my first book. But unlike my first novel, Belladonna is written in the first person, and the narrator is a queer Arab woman.

And so, as I handed over the soon-to-be-published book to my parents, it was with a certain anticipation, maybe trepidation. I left them to read the novel and waited for the conversation about my sexuality that we had always avoided. Both of my parents read the book. We never had a conversation. The special flavour of disappointment I felt is hard to express. Yes, the terror of facing this confrontation had been removed, but I’d prepared, I was ready. The fight music was playing but the match was called off, and I had to walk away.”

I’ve now used Salam’s essay as a crutch to understand and interpret my own experiences coming out to others and a public coming out of a sort that were followed with its own Unheld Conversations, which brings its identical disappointment.

This was an amazing collection, well worth the read. Maybe I needn’t be surprised that the essays were really really good, most of the contributors are themselves writers with accolades aplenty. 5/5 stars, instant recommendations.

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Amrou-Al-Kadhi

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The Queer Prophet, Amrou Al-Kadhi. The Book of Queer Prophets, edited by Ruth Hunt

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“As a queer person, I believe almost dogmatically in difference, in the idea that every single person is unique, with their own innate sense of self, and that it is this difference which brings all of us together as one.”

- Amrou Al-Kadhi

Who is Amrou Al-Kadhi?

• A nonbinary British-Iraqi writer, director, screenwriter, drag performer, and filmmaker whose work primarily focuses on queer identity, cultural representation and racial politics.

• At age 20 they created their drag persona, Glamrou, and began doing drag shows at their university. They are now a veteran drag artist and founded the drag troupe “Denim.”

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— Amrou Al-Kadhi, “The Queer Prophet” (from The Book of Queer Prophets: 24 Writers on Sexuality and Religion, curated by Ruth Hunt)

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) Review

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) Review

As Eddie Brock attempts to get his career going again he interviews serial killer Cletus Kasady and the meeting before he has been given the death penalty goes terribly wrong when he becomes a host to Carnage due to Venom being inside Brock. ⭐️⭐️ (more…)