Been Here All Along: He's in Love with the Boy Next Door

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His concerns are echoed by Chai Patel of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, who warns that the scheme is set up to be easy for people who are “wealthy, well-educated people”. He is concerned at the absence of a physical document proving status. “The scheme is very easy if you know your rights, you’re online and you’re bolshie enough to be able to stand up for what you’re entitled to. It won’t work so well for the more vulnerable. We are expecting hundreds of thousands of people to be left without status if the scheme continues as it is,” he said. The discussion on Unity Mosque thus serves as a crucial reminder of how the society has treated the gender-non conforming individuals and has shut the door of religion on their faces, making religion an exclusionary space. Spaces like Unity Mosque undo exactly that hurt of rejection, where one is accepted and seen, especially for those who hold religion and their bond with the Creator as dearer to the self. It’s clear, then, that lesbian, gay, bi, and especially trans, identities are not a trend: our varied genders and sexualities have existed for as long as people have existed, in every culture, society, and country. And it’s encouraging to see that, even in the face of extreme homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, more and more of our histories are being uncovered and told.

Of course, there are significant differences between the 1930s and today. For one thing, the terminology has changed - from refugee to asylum seeker. “Refugee” reminds us that they’re seeking refuge from persecution; today’s “asylum seeker” focuses on the place to which they want to come. Refugee doctors are treated differently, too. The British Medical Association ensured that very few refugee doctors were allowed to practise in Britain before the second world war. After the Anschluss, it vetoed a Home Office scheme to bring 500 Austrian Jewish doctors to Britain. Today, there are at least 2,000 refugee doctors in Britain, most of whom are not working as doctors. But the BMA is working together with the Refugee Council to help them requalify. Samra Habib does good to accentuate yet another exclusionary space- the academia, which is inclusive in the sense of understanding queer struggles, when it comes to theorizations and discussions but the very academic language creates emotional barriers- a language that is “inaccessible to those who need to be comforted most”. Moreover, the timeline of her stay in the West coincides with 9/11 which had repercussions for Muslims in myriad ways, so much so that one had to at times spell out one’s name in ways that would not sound like a Muslim name. The search for safety thus remained a constant search. However, what is heart-warming is the sense of community and solidarity as an upshot of the social circle that Samra Habib finds herself as a part of, while for her parents that sense of community comes in the form of being a part of the diaspora circles of similar kind that felt like home away from home.This almost flurry of research into long COVID contrasts with the experience of many with ME/CFS, who often have felt ignored or misunderstood by the medical profession. But for some, the interest in long COVID is an opportunity to learn more about the longer-term consequences of viral infections – which could, in time, also benefit people with ME/CFS. They were trying to deliver the biggest, most contentious new system that any of them had likely ever worked on, while the basic requirements were changing around them, even days before they went live,” said Joe Owen, the programme director of the Institute for Government, a thinktank working to make government more effective. Owen has been tracing the development of the scheme since the EU referendum. People need a different approach to activity and energy management along the lines of what we’ve been promoting for years, which is basically pacing and just trying to live within your energy envelope.’

Yet simply demonising those who demonise asylum seekers doesn’t take us very far, and ignores the fact that the press never only foments prejudice - it also milks that which is already there. It has long been apparent that bigotry is seeded by the daily experience of want: unemployment, dilapidated estates and hard lives rarely breed an expansive embrace of foreigners. Migration raises real and profound issues. By refusing to engage with them for so long, liberal politicians and governments have left the field to the right, which has been able to mark the boundaries of the argument. Fill in each blank with the proper use of have been, has been, or had been according to the tense given. Samra Habib spent her early years in Pakistan, born to Ahmadi Muslims parents, a sect that has faced denouncement and continues to remain a target for religious persecution due to their differing beliefs from the general Islamic preaching. While that identity traps Samra in one way, the process of coming to terms with her queerness is another facet which complicates her identity in a society wherein homosexuality is still a crime. He has gathered together paperwork showing 35 years of National Insurance contributions, with the support of the Refugee and Migrant Centre in Wolverhampton, but the Home Office has returned the application, requesting further evidence. “It makes me so angry. I’ve always worked. I’m a grafter. I can’t explain how bad it makes me feel,” he says. It makes me so angry. I’ve always worked. I’m a grafter. I can’t explain how bad it makes me feelAnother example of medieval trans people comes from Icelandic culture. The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise includes the legendary tale of Hervard, who was named Hervor at birth but later changed his name to reflect his gender. As a child, he was encouraged to engage with feminised activities such as embroidery, but his skills with a sword and bow were much stronger.

Being" is a Present Participle. The word "being" is the present participle of the verb "to be." As such, it can be used with "be" (in all its guises) to form tenses in the progressive (or continuous) aspect. For example: Since the beginning of the year, Labour has been warning of looming problems with the system, even talking of “ Windrush on steroids”. But such warnings are often firmly slapped down as just being part of “project fear”. (“I find your comparisons to Windrush inappropriate,” Priti Patel, the home secretary, told the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, this month.) Rabbi Hugo Gryn said: “How you are with the one to whom you owe nothing is a grave test.” At the moment, Britain is failing that test, especially in its press coverage. As the daughter of Polish Jewish postwar asylum seekers, I’m stupefied by how the collective memory can be so short, bigotry so unabashed, and how, with all the recent interest in the Holocaust, basic connections can fail to be made. Are we doomed always to stigmatise the Other, or are these the last bleatings of the little Englander? Must compassion only ever be extended after the event? This year, there has been a fevered European debate about the role played by the growing numbers of refugees in kindling a newly ignited far right. Post-September 11 Islamophobia has allowed many commentators to argue that Muslim asylum seekers bring a fundamentalism on issues such as women’s rights and homosexuality that is at odds with liberal values. Curiously, many of those commentators now busily climbing over themselves to defend liberal values are the very same people who only a few years ago were leading the assault on liberal social policies.They arrived in Britain on false papers. “It was very scary - it was the first time in my life that I lied like that. I felt terrible - as if I was committing some very bad thing. I still dream that I lied. Petrit’s hand was shaking when he handed over the papers.” He travels to many unique destinations worldwide, displaying an authentic reflection of the different flavors of each destination in the appearance of culture, food, and history. Even so, a Miami boy lives within his heart.

So basically I’m long COVID four years on – this is what it looks like,’ she says. ‘I do feel for the people with long COVID. Previously" is never a preposition, so it won't make people think that you are ending a sentence with a preposition. But "previously" doesn't come through as naturally as "before" does. It sounds more stilted and formal. The words been and being are forms of the irregular verb be. Been is the past participle and being is the present participle and gerund form. As the past participle, been is the form of be used in the present perfect ( has been) and past perfect ( had been) verb tenses.What also gets omitted from most press coverage is any positive asylum seeker stories. The national media consistently links asylum seekers with crime, but when reported crime in Kent fell over a three-year period in which the number of asylum seekers rose, they failed to cover it. As Kushner and Knox point out, “The many success stories on a local level are proof that refugees have not been and need not be ‘a problem’. . .Bringing energy and innovations, all refugee groups, when given the freedom to do so, have revitalised British society at a national and local level.”