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.
Poem: Natural disaster
I wrote a poem about being blamed for floods and catastrophe.
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"