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our father’s hands were always rough.
In your memories, they were nimble, too; enough to fix a doll or thread a hook as easily as holding a fork, and it was never a problem for your little fingers to fit around his. Your father’s hands were calloused and strong but, unlike the new book “Inside an Honor Killing” by Lene Wold, they were not meant for murder. She had to lie to set up the interview.
> CREDIT | “Inside an Honor Killing” by Lene Wold c.2019, Greystone Books
Lene Wold knew that, as a lesbian, she was in danger just traveling through Jordan, so she made up a fictitious husband for her own safety. She lied to be prepared, should the subject come up during conversations she had with “Rahman” who, after over a year of effort, finally sat across from her in a small café. He was a killer, but she knew that he deserved to tell his side of the story. When he was a child, Rahman told her, he witnessed the death of a young classmate buried up to her shoulders in desert sand. The seven-year-old had been raped, he said, but that act brought shame on her family because villagers believed that she had caused it. Stoning her brought honor back. Rahman wasn’t supposed to have witnessed the killing, and when his mother learned that he did, she packed her things and left, a departure that impacted him for the rest of his life. He vowed that what happened in his father’s house wouldn’t happen in his when he married a very conservative woman, and raised two daughters and a son.
BOOK REVIEW Years later, as the younger daughter, seventeen-year-old Amina, prepared for marriage, she noticed that her nineteen-year-old sister, Aisha, seemed preoccupied. Only when Amina overheard intimacies and learned that Aisha had fallen in love with another woman, did she understand her sister’s fears: there is no law against homosexuality in Jordan, but it’s a cultural sin that brings shame on a family, and Aisha’s secret couldn’t be held. And so, pressured by his wife, Rahman acted to restore honor… There is no way to soften this: “Inside an Honor Killing” is absolutely chilling. An ice-down-the-spine account of a rape that inexplicably didn’t happen opens this book, illustrating the dangers author Lene Wold endured to get the interviews she needed to tell this story. That, and the how and why of it, are the books’ introduction and while you’re there, Wold also shares statistics that will put you in a heightened state of anticipation, though you ultimately know what happens. Take a quick breath, then, before you plunge into Chapter One, because that’s the last chance you’ll get for air as this story alternates between Arabian Nights and Nightmare on Elm Street, between idyll and magic, and horrors we can only imagine. This book isn’t one bit easy to read but if you’re concerned about women’s rights or current events, it’s essential that you do. But beware: “Inside an Honor Killing” will stun you almost the minute you get it in your hands.
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Deep Inside Hollywood Sometimes Emmy Award winner Lena Waithe takes a break from being the Power Lesbian of All Hollywood, a breather from creating or writing or executive producing and running TV shows like Master of None, The Chi, and most recently BET’s series adaptation of the Eddie Murphy film Boomerang. Sometimes she just wants to relax and be an actor, which is what’s going to happen on the next season of HBO’s scifi head-scratcher Westworld. The details of Waithe’s role is being kept under wraps, of course, so we don’t know if she’s going to be a human being or a robot who looks like a human being, or even how long she’ll visit or if audiences will understand anything that’s going on at all. But what we do know is that when we get the opportunity to enjoy her in front of the camera, we take it, happily, and if Marvel or DC ever decided they needed a butch lesbian superhero, she’d be our first pick. Westworld returns to HBO in 2020 so there’s time for this wish to be granted. And we’re waiting. Love, Simon coming to Disney+ Did you see last year’s adorable gay teen comedy Love, Simon? It was the John Hughes movie John Hughes never got around to making, and its sleeper hit box office status and devoted fan base of The Youngs was crying out for a small screen adaptation. So the executive producers of This Is Us, Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, who wrote the film, are developing the series version for Disney+, the Mouse’s new streaming channel that launches later this year. There’s no cast yet, and it’s unknown if the series will revisit the plot of the film – closeted gay teenage boy with a crush on a close friend has to come out and risk it all – or if it’ll pick up at the movie’s happy ending and move forward from there. But we don’t care. We’re ready. It was time for an all-queer DeGrassi, and this could be the fulfillment of that obvious and clear gap in the TV content market. Kate McKinnon will commit fraud for Hulu Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or don’t care about the staggering entertainment value of weird Fyre Festivalstyle schemes that happily separate rich people from their money, then you’ve heard about Elizabeth Holmes and her “company,” Theranos. She’s the one who decided to make a fake startup for blood testing that, instead, was a massive scam that wound up seeing her indicted on multiple counts of wire fraud. Her bizarre story became the subject of a podcast called The Dropout, then an ABC News documentary that aired in March, and will now become a limited series for Hulu starring Kate McKinnon. Not only does McKinnon look like Holmes, we have absolute confidence in her ability to ride that
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strangely delicate line between playing it straight and mining the extremely weird comic potential inherent in this freakish demonstration of the follies of capitalism. Grease is the word again Grease, that stupendously successful film musical of 1978 that people still adore, was truly one of the gayest pop culture products of that decade. It was, after all, masterminded by one of Hollywood’s legendary queens, Allan Carr – see the wild documentary about his life and work, The Fabulous Allan Carr, for full backup on this fact – and though the film was about heterosexual love in the 1950s, everything about it was tailor-made for queer eyes to enjoy. So here comes the prequel, currently titled Summer Loving. As you surely recall, the film’s opening production number told the story of Danny and Sandy’s pre-Grease summer romance (his details raunchy, hers chaste), and that’s what this story will explore. John August, gay screenwriter of Big Fish and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, will work on the script, and we’ve already envisioned something splashy and weird, the extreme opposite of bland and straight, and hopefully starring Vanessa Hudgens as Rizzo. We’ve made our choice here, so Hollywood please listen. Romeo San Vicente is also splashy and weird. .
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Creep of the WEEK Franklin Graham
by D’Anne Witkowski
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