Poem: Natural disaster
I wrote a poem about being blamed for floods and catastrophe.
Liy Yusof
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.
Two essays under a different name
A creative non-fiction commission series that I couldn't claim as mine at the time.
Something like a stellar nursery
I reflect part of a mirror I am too small to see.
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"
Anarchy & Alcohol: What if you're too drunk to dream?
Anarchy and Alcohol is the kind of zine where you immediately think of friends who need to read it, but you probably need to read it too.
Learning Good Consent: An essential zine on relational boundaries
In this zine, sex is not nearly as important as the dirty work: defining the boundaries of what feels safe for your dignity around another while being mindful of their limits too.
Poem: Things My Grandmother Doesn't Understand
by Liy Yusof. "her hands quiver as she floats through the rooms of her mind / and switches the lights on and off again"
January danced to the poem I wrote her
"Her every step on the ground is not / always a step forward, but rather / a kiss from ancient Odisha"
They're Missing / THE BEST OF US
A miniature dystopian story first published in a Fixi Novo anthology in 2017.