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 Signs In Ourselves
These posts are from the The Signs In Ourselves: Exploring Queer Muslim Courage, a free gorgeous illustrated spiritual wellbeing workbook inspired by Qur'an verses 41:53 and 51:20-21, full of queer Muslim voices from Southeast Asia and all over. The workbook was released in 2020 with thanks to CSBR. This series adapting the workbook is ongoing in 2023.
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.