In describing how sapphic relationships and attraction in Arabic texts have often been left to be read between the lines, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali wrote in "Living in the Ellipses":

"The failure of language for me is not exclusively a failure. I am drawn to what cannot be named"

And holy fuck, that may be the most lesbian sentence I have read this year!

#lesbian #sapphic #queer

Came up in this great piece about the queer arab glossery, which is also amazing: them.us/story/marwan-kaabour-q…

Inside Marwan Kaabour's Queer Arab Glossary, a Searching Expression of LGBTQ+ Arab History

Kaabour has curated a necessary intervention in understanding queer Arabness on — and through — our own terms, instead of those imported into the region.

^{George Abraham (Them.)}