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I was talking to a group of friends about being an individual in an Arab family. We discussed the challenges of stepping forward out of the loser enmeshed group and making loser a controversial proclamation. As many people can testify, Arab families can be very tight knit -- we "take care of our own," we encourage loser symbiotic relationships, we nurture each other, we stifle each other...but...if you dare to deviate, and are actually not ashamed of it, you are automatically shunned and classified as the black sheep. How many Arabs do you personally know that would not vocalize a thought for fear of being ex-communicated from their family? I can name about fifteen. Being queerly vocal has been easy. Being vocally queer as an Arab has been, and sometimes continues to be, a struggle. I wondered why there were not more contributions to this issue of bint el nas.
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