Zana’s Reviews > This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers > Status Update
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“...Parental restrictions on the computer and TV, sure, but also bribing teachers at school to watch me for any signs of ‘gay behaviour’, throwing away any clothes that could perceived to be feminine and scaring me with terrifying passages of hell in the Quran. The wider family were conscripted too, with my uncle being tasked with giving me lectures on the dangers of homosexuality...”
— Jun 06, 2026 11:11PM
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“‘I wonder if the demand that marginalized artists repeatedly perform trauma – becoming trauma clowns – in our art is a way to contain and oppress us, politely or indirectly, from the comfort of a seat, hands clean,’ Vivek Shraya writes in her exquisite essay, ‘How did the suffering of marginalized artists become so marketable?’.“
— Jun 07, 2026 11:04AM
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“There is a tendency among the audiences of marginalised authors, such as myself, to assume that every piece of writing is a reflection of real-life events that the author went through. There is this tunnel vision that many audience members get; it generalises the experience of one marginalised writer for it to become the general experience of that marginalised community....”
— Jun 06, 2026 11:38PM
