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 seem to 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.
We can't leave anyone behind
We're just out here trying to survive men we didn't elect, and we can't leave anyone behind. How long do we endure processes that will not open ways forward?
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.
Remembering and expressing gratitude (The Signs In Ourselves, Part 12 of 12)
Reframing the journeys of our life and earth as experiences of gratitude can be healing, humbling, and empowering for many queer and sexually diverse Muslims.
Imagining our dream futures (The Signs In Ourselves, Part 11 of 12)
I asked queer Muslims: What does the future of your dreams look like? And then artist Dhiyanah Hassan lovingly illustrated their answers.
Lessons from us for everyone else (The Signs In Ourselves, Part 10 of 12)
What if we allowed ourselves to see the lives of queer Muslims as a manifested source of rich Divine understanding for others?
Letters to our past selves (The Signs In Ourselves, Part 9 of 12)
In this part of the series, queer Muslims send messages back in time to their younger selves.