I’m 20. I grew up in France with my mom and my sisters. My family and my friends always accepted me as a bisexual woman even if few of them don’t really understand what it means. But when I was younger (around 12 years old) and that I realised I might like girls too, I was completely lost. And I surely didn’t want to talk about it with anybody. I looked up for movies with queer relationships in it. But there wasn’t a lot of LGBT representation. And I couldn’t find answers to my questions. So I tried to forget… Read more “I’m 20. I grew up”

I grew up in Saudi Arabia and then Pakistan. The first time I knew there was a name for people like me was when I accidentally stumbled upon a youtube video of Pepa and Silvia from Los Hombres De Paco. That is when I first realized I was not alone, I was not unnatural, not evil, not a perversion. My world changed. I came out to those around me. In times of prosecution, I would look up to popular representations of strong, independent females and queer characters and find the strength to fight on. Years later, I am a filmmaker,… Read more “I grew up in Saudi”

I’m a sixteen year old girl who just found myself. It was around January when I decided that I was gay. It took so long for me to figure it out, but when the episodes of the 100 came out, I was scared to tell my parents, seeing as my grandma who lives with us is a homophobe and my dad is super religious and would tell me that I’m sinning. My mom would be chill, but would be brought down just as much as me because my family wouldn’t accept my decision. I was so tired of hiding myself… Read more “I’m a sixteen year old”