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I am an AuDHD tropical cryptid foraging for narrative resources in Southeast Asia. I am here to be the strange Muslim ancestor of my dreams. This site is where I play with communicating what I've learned from independent study to prepare for future possibilities. Everything I post I try to keep 'evergreen' and meaningful for times to come.

Before the 2020 global pandemic changed everything, I was co-organising community spaces for queer feminists to befriend the Qur'an together. I also started a zettelkasten notes system that I still use today. While sheltering in place, I co-wrote the love letter I've always wanted to make, The Signs In Ourselves. These days, I cultivate this pocket of the web in my free time, and curate collections of essays, tools and stories saved for others. Every thoughtful reader is an honour. If you valued something I wrote, sharing the link or buying me a coffee lets me know to keep going.

"Across the ages, humans have left evidence in the form of relics about orienting themselves towards something Sacred, Ultimate, or Holy Other." - amina wadud

I keep a place to return to whenever you remember it, hopefully with your tea of choice. Some house rules:

1. 🧿 A human being always wrote it. There is no space for generative 'AI' here, just my messy flesh and blood crafting these transmissions slowly as an act of care in between other obligations. Stay for the OPPOSITE of themed auto-playlists, polished people-pleasing text, eerie unreal images that interrupt our recognition of what is human in each other.
2. 🧿 I choose what I write about here, and I do not write for everyone. I do not value 'producing content' to maximise popularity or profit. What I use this space to do is practice acts of service with the intention of helping others feel less alone and more oriented in their solidarity.
3. 🧿 This is not the space or the time to defend theologies and ideologies of domination and exclusion. The world is not improved with narratives of rejection that bully and isolate using reactionary panic and shrunken views on life. While you are a guest in my garden of free time, let's keep as many possibilities open as we can for a world with less domination and exclusion in it, not more.

Read some of my personal favourites:

A ‘privilege’ so slow, it is the same as losing

A gentle reminder to the next person who asks me if we are in a world war, and if yes, how would I know.

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Abusers always use the same moves (and physical violence is not one of them)

The methods common to intimate abuse match those used by all traders of human captivity. What should surprise us about abuse isn’t how long it takes to leave, but that one has the strength to endure captivity disguised as courtship.

Liy Learned ThatLiy Yusof

The Tawhidic paradigm for human rights

This is a brief adventure into the world of Islamic ethics. Tawhid is a fundamental Islamic principle, often translated to as ‘monotheism’, but as we’ll see, there are more layers to it than that.

Liy Learned ThatLiy Yusof

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.

Liy Learned ThatLiy Yusof

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.

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[BASICS] My comfort Quranic bookmarks

[VALUES] My compass

[FAQ] "What do you mean you're ______?"

[SHELF] My working library

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