queer muslim resistance – Details, episodes & analysis

This episode, Elias and Maha talk about artivism, sex education, mutual aid and turning outdoor gatherings and protests into queer masjds-on-the-go. Taylor joins Maha for a debrief.

You can find Elias on Instagram @strawberreli and their website here.

Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content. Email: queermuslimresistance@gmail.com

References and further reading:

• Masjid Al Rabia Faith Not Fear Fund 
• EIias' queer Muslim masterpost 
• The Indigenous Anarchist on mutual aid and charity
• Nawal H. Ammar - Restorative Justice in Islam: Theory and Practice
• The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice edited by Michael L. Hadley

This episode, Ejel and Maha talk about revisiting Queer Islam like a steadfast friendship, the rise of Islamists in the UK by the 1990's, the need for Queer Muslim in-person meetups, and TAKING TO THE STREETS! (as safely as possible :) ) Taylor joins Maha for a debrief. 

You can find Ejel on Instagram @muslimlgbtnetwork

Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content. Email: queermuslimresistance@gmail.com

Thanks again to Abrar and Aram, our lovely volunteers. Go Team Go.

References and further reading:

Muslim LGBT Network 

Hidayah

Imaan

Unmooring the Komagata Maru

Jaspreet Ranauta - Transnational Modernity/Coloniality: Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice, and Punjabi Diasporic Positionalities for Critical Solidarity on Turtle Island

Mohamed jean Veneuse - Islam and Queer Muslims: Identity and Sexuality in the Contemporary World

Aqdas Aftab - “Invisibilized Resistance”

Global Muslim Resource Guide

Kai Cheng Thom - I Hope We Choose Love

Lisa Lowe - The Intimacies of Four Continents

Mohamed Jean Veneuse - “transnational decolonization is the solution”

Tiffany Lethabo King Interviewed by Feral Feminisms

Tuck and Yang - “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor”

Gloria Wekker - The Politics of Passion

David Valentine - “Chapter 4: The Making of a Field” in Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category (email for access)

Joseph Massad - “Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World”

On respectability politics

Al Qaws on pinkwashing 

This episode, we’re back with Kathryn for Part 2 of our conversation! She shares her work on re-centering sex and pleasure for BIPOC, queer folk and people of marginalized genders through her adult novelty business, House of Bawdy. You can listen to part 1 in our previous episode. Nicole and Taylor debrief with Maha.

You can find House of Bawdy on Facebook or Instagram @houseofbawdy, and their website houseofbawdy.com is set to launch on November 27 2020.

Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content.

• Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit by Marlon Bailey - a great read on ballroom culture (email us for access)
• Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality | TED Talk
• Audre Lorde: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
• Pleasure Activism by adrienne marie brown - an essential read!

This episode, Kathryn shares her story of finding selfhood as a sexually fluid Black Muslim woman born into a Nation of Islam family. We talk about Blackness and Islam and Islams of difference. Next week, we’ll hear all about Kathryn’s work on re-centering sex and pleasure through her adult novelty business, House of Bawdy. Nicole and Taylor debrief with Maha.

You can find House of Bawdy on Facebook or Instagram @houseofbawdy, and their website houseofbawdy.com is set to launch on November 27 2020.

Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content.

• “Towards a Black Muslim Ontology of Resistance” by Muna Mire: https://thenewinquiry.com/towards-a-black-muslim-ontology-of-resistance/
• “What Is Transformative Justice?”: https://youtube.com/watch?v=U-_BOFz5TXo
• Transformative justice resource list from the South Asian Queer and Trans Collective: https://www.saqtc.org/transformative-justice

This episode, we have a conversation with Summeiya about their experiences navigating the world as a gender-fluid lesbian based in Tkoronto/ Toronto. Nicole and Taylor debrief with Maha. You can follow Summeiya on Instagram @summeiyakhamissa

Content Note - this episode does feature mentions of threats of sexual violence and death.

Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content.

• Queer Muslim resources - a resource guide on Google Drive
• Tareef: queer Muslim reading group from Hiba Ali
• Share your queer health stories
• The Sublime Quran translated by Laleh Bakhtiar http://www.sublimequran.org
• Tonguebreaker - a poetry collection from Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• The Gay Muslim Podcast by Adam Divino https://anchor.fm/thegaymuslim/
• Audre Lorde - Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference https://www.colorado.edu/odece/sites/default/files/attached-files/rba09-sb4converted_8.pdf
• Queer-Friendly Islamic Hermeneutics - Samar Habib (PDF in resource guide)
• Some queer femme art for our listeners!! Summeiya has this beautiful image on her wall of two femmes in bed together smoking. Art by @sleepysoymilk on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B-pAVFZHaHP/

This episode, we talk about healing through rituals of beading, art and prayer, while complicating what it means to belong on stolen land.

You can follow Kole on Instagram @mildpeps / @rustlingpine and check out their website: rustlingpine.com

Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content.

• Kissing Brides artwork: @hiddenlionstudio
• The Rani’s Affair artwork: @demen.art
• Gayatri Gopinath - Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Can the Subaltern Speak?
• “What is Homonationalism?” - Novara Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l3shYm6Jao

Hello and welcome to the introductory episode of queer muslim resistance: a podcast from OPIRG Kingston! We talk about who we are what we're doing here. 

Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content.

Link to "The Whiteness of Coming Out" by Asiel Adan Sanchez: http://archermagazine.com.au/2017/07/culture-coming-out/

This episode, Sari and Maha talk about Islamic culture vs religion, culture X religion, Maghrebian Tunisian diaspora communities, & being Muslim enough. Taylor and Nicole join Maha for a debrief.

You can find Sari on Instagram @sarihellara and @livingearthlings

Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content. Email: queermuslimresistance@gmail.com

A huge thank you to our volunteers, Abrar and Aram; their compassion and generosity has fuelled this project’s continuation. We owe them a lot!

References and further reading:

Inclusive Mosque UK
https://inclusivemosque.org/

The Arabization of Islam
https://www.thepvblication.com/post/the-arabisation-of-islam
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2008/01/the_arabization_of_islam/

Omid Safi’s Radical Love
https://bookshop.org/books/radical-love-teachings-from-the-islamic-mystical-tradition/9780300248616

Omid Safi’s Sufi Heart Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sufi-heart-with-omid-safi/id1427714471

Sari’s Living Earthlings Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/5N9Xndhm1ynK09C9GOwUU3

Muslims for Progressive Values
https://www.mpvusa.org/

This episode, Sufi and Maha talk about harmful judgements, being outed, eventually finding a plethora of Queer Muslim communities online, Queer Ummah and Queer Muslim Liberation. Taylor and Nicole join Maha for a debrief. You can find Sufi on Instagram @sufi.sun and on Twitter @sufisun7 Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content. Email: queermuslimresistance@gmail.com A huge thank you to our volunteers, Abrar, Aram and Zara; their compassion and generosity has fuelled this project’s continuation. We owe them a lot! References and further reading: https://www.malikah.org/ https://www.hidayahlgbt.com/ http://www.queercrescent.org/ https://hearttogrow.org/ Halal if You Hear Me - Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo ["Queer Brown Futures (Or Lack Thereof) Pg 153] https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1273-the-breakbeat-poets-vol-3

This episode, Noor talks to Maha about being “disabled and”, and the importance of centring accessibility in community spaces. Taylor and Nicole join Maha for a debrief.

You can find Noor on Twitter @snoringdoggo and on snoringdoggo.dog

The transcript will be linked ASAP.

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