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.
Liy Yusof
Listening to interfaith feminists in Southeast Asia
The discourse of faith and feminism in Southeast Asia is exciting and prolific, but often overlooked.
On finding the love of my life: Year in Review 2019
I entered 2019 with only one idea: to leave behind the idea that someone else is the love of my life. To be the love of my life.
Coming out vs. coming in
"Coming in" is to think about inviting or allowing someone to "come in" to your life.
My lifetime will speak for itself: 5 questions
I have been in the mood for big frameworks, and nothing feels bigger right now than these five questions which I’ve adapted from a hadith and invite you to, if it feels right.
Season finale vibes, 2019
Cloth and climate change
Isn't what is really irrational the belief that any piece of (the) material can conceal us from our own actions in full sight of the Divine?
At the intersection of Pride and Eid
Maybe pride is the courage to not let fools kick us out of our faith.
Learning to practice prayer
Prayer was always wrapped up in some tension that I was too Busy avoiding to name. Then I considered that Muslim prayer is a ritual in a framework of natural time.
Against child marriage in Malaysia and Indonesia
Did you know child marriage is linked to ecological crisis? I share my notes after Indonesian and Malaysian Muslims at a public forum call for an end to child marriage.
Poem: "I desired to be known"
Poem: I need a new way
by Liy Yusof. "oh orenda, show me my coordinates / oh sophrosyne, the mysteries of my blood"