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.
Liy 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.
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 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.
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.
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: Zoonotic Spillover
A Malaysian pandemic poem by Liy Yusof, after Andreas Malm. Translated into Bahasa Melayu by Jack Malik.
In conversation with my elder, amina wadud
amina wadud invited me to talk about our explorations of sexual diversity and human dignity— and the ethical question of our time for Muslims everywhere.
Expanding the Muslim knowledge tradition for gender justice
Muslims believe that the Qur'an is timeless in its benefit. To understand meaning in the Qur’an in any location or time after revelation, tools and concepts in Qur'anic sciences were created. Diverse Muslims can use these traditional tools towards achieving justice in our lived realities today.
Socrates, sense-perception, and the Quran
"This is what the earlier Muslim students of the Quran completely missed under the spell of classical speculation."
A transcendent affiliation
When Muslims eventually created their own calendar a dozen years later, they looked back and decided this was the year it began.
Listening to interfaith feminists in Southeast Asia
The discourse of faith and feminism in Southeast Asia is exciting and prolific, but often overlooked.