Pull The Tower
A magnet poem, September 2024
Liy Yusof
To bear witness is an act of resistance
On bearing witness, decolonising death positivity, and being steadfast with a heart that will never recover.
"Love goes on and on"
And then suddenly the tone of the film entirely shifted, just for two beings walking the forest at night, in love.
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.
We only own what was given to us freely
If modern life in a climate emergency and multiple genocides means we could be among the last to ever believe, then it may be that we understand the struggle against injustice better now than the early Muslims did.
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?
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.
Doomerism is a transitional phase
"What will capitalists do when there is nothing left to invest in except each other?"
In Japan for the first time
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.
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.
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.