Blogs about: Amina Arraf

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Sour Lips: A Review3 comments

Rahul Rao wrote 3 months ago: Anyone who followed the controversy over the fictitious Gay Girl in Damascus blog, created by Edinbu … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Beautiful Revolutionary Dreams, Cultural Critique, Empire. Imperialism, ethics, Feminism, Lies They Hope You Won't Spot, masculinities, Narcissisms

Falling in Love With an Internet Hoax

sagittariusdolly wrote 4 months ago: Once again the mainstream media is shocked—SHOCKED!—that there’s yet another Internet hoax. Th … more →

Tags: Dolls, videos, People, famous people, WTF, Football, Internet Hoax, Manti Te'o, Lennay Kekua

New Media in the Middle East1 comment

kulnaadmin wrote 1 year ago: By Daniel Mourad Jensen, Master of Arts in Arabic – a sociological profile, The Copenhagen Uni … more →

Tags: Politics, Religion and Culture, News, Social Media, middle east, media, twitter, facebook, YouTube

Anonymity Online: A blogger by any other name...?2 comments

Lou H wrote 1 year ago: [Source: TimeOut - 23 works by Banksy, the world's most famous (and reclusive) street artist, are to … more →

Tags: Art, Anonymity, Banksy, tom macmaster, cockatoo island, sydney, Outpost Project, Australia, UK

Citizen Journalism Is Not Journalism.3 comments

Danielle Ryan wrote 1 year ago: ABC News Crew “Would you trust a Citizen Neurosurgeon to remove your kid’s neuroblastoma? No, … more →

Tags: Politics, Journalism, Life, writing, Blogging, Internet, media, News, JournoPost

Despite hoaxes, anonymity remains important

bargad wrote 1 year ago: After an American admitted inventing the “Gay Girl in Damascus” character, the validity … more →

Tags: Culture 2, Jillian C York, gay girl in damascus, BlogSphere, Blogging, Internet Hoax, Online Sources, intenet activism, online activism

The Tale of "Amina" and what it really means

rttmirror wrote 1 year ago: A rather insignificant blog exploded onto the international stage last week, as the supposedly … more →

Tags: Current Events, middle east, Amina, Amina Abdallah, deviant, Gay Rights, Homosexual, Israel, Syria

Catholicism and the Arab Spring

Eli wrote 1 year ago: I haven’t seen much on this across Catholic media, and I thought to make a return to my blog w … more →

Tags: Politics, arab spring catholic, Arab Spring, catholic arab spring, catholic arab revolution, Arab Uprising, catholic arab, damascus gay girl, Libya catholic

Cyberace and Electronic Queerness: An Internet Disguise for White Heroism1 comment

Indiana Rogers wrote 1 year ago: A Gay Girl in Damascus (http://damascusgaygirl.blogspot.com/ ) was a former blog following the Syria … more →

Tags: whiteness, Gender Identity, Arab Spring, white privilege, tom macmaster, A Gay Girl in Damascus, Jelena Lecic, Queerness, The White Man's Burden

The Integrity of the Blogger

Shannon wrote 1 year ago: The internet has given us nearly unmitigated global access to news, opinion, and the ability to shar … more →

Tags: Blogging, Blog, Paula Brooks, A Gay Girl in Damascus, lezgetreal, blog hoax, Integrity, journalistic integrity

Ron Silliman and the Amina hoax

Daniel wrote 1 year ago: Poet-theorist-blogger Ron Silliman hasn’t weighed in yet on the Amina Arraf hoax, where a whit … more →

Tags: misogyny, Poetry, Queer Theory, Palestine, ethics, The Revolution, racism, Erasure, subjectivity

Let's Get Real: When Young, Lesbian Bloggers Turn Out To Be Older, Married Men2 comments

John Scotus wrote 1 year ago: For the last several months, Amina Arraf has been blogging at A Gay Girl In Damascus, talking about … more →

Tags: Politics, Culture, middle east, Fake but Accurate, Lesbian, Paula Brooks, Damascus, Syria, Lez Get Real

A Valuable Reminder About The Internet

webnerbob wrote 1 year ago: Recently the blog LezGetReal has reminded us of a valuable lesson about the internet that can never … more →

Tags: technology, Internet, Paula Brooks, lezgetreal, tom macmaster, Bill Graber, Internet Frauds, A Gay Girl in Damascus

Do Lesbians exist?

Noah Simon wrote 1 year ago: Or are they just a rumor, like Yeti or Bigfoot, supported by a few ardent believers and writers of e … more →

Tags: @amandachapel, Syria, Damascus, Gay, Washington Post, lesbians, tom macmaster, Paula Brooks

‘Gay Girl in Damascus’ Blog a Hoax, American Says - NYTimes.com

constntcrisis wrote 1 year ago: ‘Gay Girl in Damascus’ Blog a Hoax, American Says – NYTimes.com. … more →

Tags: Assholes

The Syrian Gay Girl hoax: reaching the limits of the social medias in matter of information

masrwatouness wrote 1 year ago: A couple of weeks ago, at the beginning of the Syrian uprising, a blog post went viral. It was calle … more →

Tags: Blog, facebook, twitter, Society, News, Syria, gay girl in damascus, Social Medias, Hoax

LezGetReal and Gay Girl in Damascus: Straight Men in Drag2 comments

lesbianoutsider wrote 1 year ago: LezGetWhat!? Within the last week, two lesbian-authored blogs have been unmasked as nothing more tha … more →

Tags: Lesbian/Gay, Media/Arts/Entertainment, lezgetreal, gay girl in damascus, Syria, Bill Graber, tom mcmaster, Bridgette LaVictoire

Forum 4 - Anonymity 28 comments

Steven Davy wrote 1 year ago: For this week’s forum discussion lets jump right the use of anonymity online. Here are two com … more →

Tags: forum, MayorEmanuel, Anonymity, Dan Sinker, tom macmaster

When A Gay Girl In Damascus Is Actually A Mennonite Male In Georgia

Conservative Wanderer wrote 1 year ago: Can the left do anything without deception involved? For nearly a week, the world followed the saga … more →

Tags: Media Bias, Foreign Affairs, media, Syria, tom mcmaster, Damascus


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