Coming around.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Itäinen, Sandra, director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abdelhadi, Eman.

Muslim sexual minorities--United States--Biography.

Muslim sexual minorities.

Palestinian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Palestinian Americans.

Coming out (Sexual orientation)--Religious aspects--Islam.

Coming out (Sexual orientation).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (01:14:40)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Good Docs, 2023.

Language Note:

Closed-captions in English.

Summary:

Coming Around follows 28-year-old second-generation Palestinian-Egyptian Brooklynite Eman as she weighs the decision to come out to her devout Muslim mother. Having grown up in Columbia, Missouri with her mother and sister, the three women share a unique tight-knit bond that Eman desperately wants to maintain. But despite being a scholar and visibly "out" among her queer Muslim friends, Eman sits uncomfortably in silence when it comes to her mother. To postpone coming out, she decides to marry her current boyfriend, Q, to give the appearance of strictly hetero relationship interests. The story captures how she struggles with this decision and consequently navigates the opposing expectations of her multiple identities. This is a new kind of "coming out" movie with a mother-daughter love story at its core, and it reveals the often unseen intricacies of seeking common ground and family, especially in religious and marginalized communities of color. The film also has a unique opportunity to broaden the discussion around pansexuality and bisexuality, which often gets lost in the larger discussion of queerness and sexuality.

Participant:

Director, Sandra Itäinen.

Notes:

Description based on XML content.

ISBN:

9781036248116

OCLC:

1414389060

Publisher Number:

301783