Published on Jun 21, 2011
“When the lesbian blogger Amina Arraf in Syria was revealed to be a white American man named Tom MacMaster, it fueled the myth that Arab lesbians dont exist. They do. And the anonymity of the Internet does create one of the few spaces that lesbian Arabs can come out and find each other…”
Astraea published an op-ed in The Progressive: “When the lesbian blogger Amina Arraf in Syria was revealed to be a white American man named Tom MacMaster, it fueled the myth that Arab lesbians dont exist. They do. And the anonymity of the Internet does create one of the few spaces that lesbian Arabs can come out and find each other…”
Read the rest of the op-ed on The Progessive.
