Fake lesbians all the way down
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1) The document discusses the story of "Amina Arraf", a blogger who claimed to be a Syrian lesbian living in Damascus but was later revealed to be a hoax. 2) An American woman named Amanda McClure was uncovered as the person behind the fake "Amina" online persona, having stolen photos and crafted an elaborate fictional backstory. 3) The hoax highlighted issues of online identity deception and had negative impacts in the LGBT community in the Middle East, where actual Syrian bloggers went quiet after the hoax was exposed.
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- 3. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry
- 4. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry #FreeAmina
- 5. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry
- 6. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Timeline 2011 June 6 Amina abducted
- 7. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Amina who?
- 8. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Timeline 2011 June 6 Amina abducted Feb Amina blog begins April My father the hero
- 9. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Suspicion No word from family No one has met her No confirmation of Amina’s existence in the U.S. No reason for the cousin to lie
- 10. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry The story unfolds
- 11. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry The story within the story Amanda Lynn McClure Pattern recognition
- 12. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Digression! Plain Layne,“bisexual info-waif”, 2003
- 13. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Layne = Odin Also,Acanit fromThe Sex Pistols Are Alive and Well and Living in Sohatsenango, Iranian-American-Kenyan TV journalist blogger and impish bisexual, 2000-2001 The Plain Layne Hoax
- 14. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry SXSWi talk on “fictional bloggers” and hoaxes 2007
- 15. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Back to Amina! Mutability of the story Her identity is the story
- 16. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry No, really,Amina WHO?
- 17. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Amina’s girlfriend (Amina’s *Internet* girlfriend)
- 18. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Timeline 2011 June 6 Amina abducted Feb Amina blog begins April My father the hero June 7 * State Dept. inquiry * acarvin’s question * Sanda Bagaria comes forward * I post doubts
- 19. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Guilt (mine)
- 20. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry
- 21. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Text I declare my skepticism
- 22. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Boom! The Internet explodes. Into my inbox.
- 23. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Amina is popular and cute!
- 24. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry But wait, those photos are stolen from a woman in London named Jelena
- 25. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Timeline 2011 June 6 Amina abducted Feb Amina blog begins April My father the hero June 7 * State Dept. inquiry * acarvin’s question * Sanda Bagaria comes forward * I post doubts June 8 * Jelena photos * AmyYoung emails * Amanda McClure * Email lists * Electronic Intifada *Everyone’s brain explodes! May Amina goes into hiding Sandra Bagaria calls Amina’s phone
- 26. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Emails from Amy
- 27. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Mutant Teenage Lesbian Turtles
- 28. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry IRC Married!
- 29. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Amina on mailing lists
- 30. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Sockpuppet techniques Argue with yourself And agree with yourself! Either way, you become more important.
- 31. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Suspect #1:Who talks with Amina?
- 32. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Role playing gamer!
- 33. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Scott’s Xmas card
- 34. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Timeline 2011 Amina’s Gay Girl in Damascus blog starts 20102009200820072006 Jennnifer Cheyenne “dies” 20052004 AmyLynn/ Cheyenne/ Andrea/ brother drama Amina talks about her imaginary life as Amanda Lynn McClure Amina begins posting to alternate- history list Jasmine from Pakistan blogs and comments Paula Brooks emails, chats with Amina Amina stops posting in alt- history Various activists Facebook- friend Amina Amina posts on queer-jihad
- 35. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Internet Sleuths Gather And a bunch of Actual Lesbian Bloggers who shall remain nameless Ben Ali Andy Esther
- 36. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry The Amina Entity Amina2007 Amina2011 threefoldamina aminaarraf Rania Ismail Amanda Lynn(e) McClure (Davis) Jennifer Cheyenne Williams (Davis) Kimberly Dakota (Davis) Andrea (Brittney Williams) Bi/Lesbian, bad poetry, endless drama, multilingual, multiple ethnicities jasmine from pakistan Andrea’s brother littleamylynn
- 37. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Amy, the Unreliable Narrator
- 38. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Theories within theories Nested stories Long hypothetical narratives presented as lightly fictionalized dialogues
- 39. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Disabled?
- 40. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Trans + closeted?
- 41. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Long earnest emails I meant it all, but this is how I felt.
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- 43. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry LezGetReal:A Gay Girl’sView on the World
- 44. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Amina is Tom MacMaster
- 45. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry And maybe his wife Britta Froelicher, post doc in Syrian Studies, too (but probably not, given all the soft core porn Amina wrote)
- 46. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry A Terrible Phone Call
- 47. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Paula Brooks quoted extensively in WaPo Has Amina’s IP number Deaf lesbian surfer, mom of twins, 3rd grade teacher Meanwhile, Paula *who*?
- 48. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Queen of the Surf Pirates Sammy the surf dog, Lots of horrible poetry about surfing, twin babies, local politics
- 49. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry The Lesbiatopia drama Paula writes to: Renee Heather LesbianMommy LezziMom GeekPornGirl CJ Every other lesbian blogger around
- 50. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Who is real in LezGetReal Investigating the other associates Linda Bridgette Melanie They all speak to Paula only over IM, email, or through her dad “Bill” (The Major)
- 51. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Timeline 2011 Amina’s Gay Girl in Damascus blog starts 20102009200820072006 Jennnifer Cheyenne “dies” 20052004 AmyLynn/ Cheyenne/ Andrea/ brother drama Amina talks about her imaginary life as Amanda Lynn McClure Amina begins posting to alternate- history list Jasmine from Pakistan blog Paula Brooks emails, chats with Amina Amina stops posting in alt- history Various activists Facebook- friend Amina Paula writes for Lesbiatopia, emails every internet lesbian ever gives birth to twins LezGetReal splits from Lesbiatopia Paula starts Queen of the Surf Pirates Paula’s wife Debbie dies from breast cancer Paula moves to DC Tom MacMaster posts to alternate- history list
- 52. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Paula Brooks is Bill Graber from Ohio
- 53. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry The Internet Explodes Again
- 54. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Fallout Fauxpologies Justifications - hoaxes brought attention to “the issues” Syrian bloggers, news sources went quiet for weeks GLBT activists in Mid East had to question their own security, who knew who in person
- 55. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Why did we listen to Amina?
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- 57. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry
- 58. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry Bad Allies When someone says they’re speaking for the voiceless, I reach for my gun
- 59. Fake Lesbians All the Way Down The Story 2012 - Liz Henry This is why marginalized people lose their histories They’re drowned out by the fake stories Our real stories are too dangerous to tell in public so the false stories, so much more palatable, trump them Our histories are often preserved in baroque eddies, backwaters, hidden pockets, obscure corners We are struggling to preserve complexity so that difficult stories stay alive