Spirit Garden Befriending the Qur'an What I send to those who ask me how they can start building their own relationship with revelation. How do you read it? Which translations? Where do you start?
The Signs In Ourselves Here is a queer Muslim wellbeing workbook to help you feel less alone Sheltering indoors in the holy month of the first year of the global pandemic, encouraged by a friend, I made a love letter to God and to all the queer Muslims who changed my life.
Notes Garden Doomerism is a transitional phase "What will capitalists do when there is nothing left to invest in except each other?"
Notes Garden Brief stories of historical baddies Remembering: Khutulun, Yennenga, the Trung sisters, Trieu Thi Trinh, Malahayati, Srikandi Tun Fatimah, Ching Shih, Sayyida al-Hurra, Chandramalar, Wong So Ying, Shamsiah Fakeh, Khatijah Sidek, Silvia Morello.
Tea In The Garden On Sharing A Life: Years in Review 2020-2022 Without a door to lock, I had no choice now but to be this me always.
The Signs In Ourselves Rethinking a social emphasis on procreation and proliferation When confronted with this growth-oriented worldview, the burden is often placed on sexually diverse Muslims to change ourselves to conform to it.
Spirit Garden The Tawhidic paradigm for human rights Tawhid is a fundamental Islamic principle, often translated to as 'monotheism', but as we'll see, there are more layers to it than that. This is a brief adventure into the world of Islamic ethics.
The Signs In Ourselves The four-arched portal of Rahma What do we do when encountering social rhetoric, verses, and hadith that seemingly violate the higher Qur'anic ethical principles of love, rahma, beauty, justice, and equity? Dr Ghazala Anwar offers this Qur'anic portal of Rahma to negotiate this apparent challenge to our faith.
The Signs In Ourselves Women as authorities and producers of Islamic knowledge The struggle to decriminalise sexual diversity from within an Islamic framework holds hands with the intergenerational struggle to democratise authority and justice for women.
Spirit Garden Breathing with the Opener: A skeleton key meditation A meditation based on the Quran's opener, Surah Al-Fatihah. If you know the sura, you'll have a grounding tool when thoughts wander.
Poem Garden Poem: Zoonotic Spillover A Malaysian pandemic poem by Liy Yusof, after Andreas Malm. Translated into Bahasa Melayu by Jack Malik.