Hello Islam, My Old Friend: A Conversation with Ejel queer muslim resistance

This episode, Ejel and Maha talk about revisiting Queer Islam like a steadfast friendship, the rise of Islamists in the UK by the 1990's, the need for Queer Muslim in-person meetups, and TAKING TO THE STREETS! (as safely as possible :) ) Taylor joins Maha for a debrief. 

You can find Ejel on Instagram @muslimlgbtnetwork

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Thanks again to Abrar and Aram, our lovely volunteers. Go Team Go.

References and further reading:

Muslim LGBT Network 

Hidayah

Imaan

Unmooring the Komagata Maru

Jaspreet Ranauta - Transnational Modernity/Coloniality: Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice, and Punjabi Diasporic Positionalities for Critical Solidarity on Turtle Island

Mohamed jean Veneuse - Islam and Queer Muslims: Identity and Sexuality in the Contemporary World

Aqdas Aftab - “Invisibilized Resistance”

Global Muslim Resource Guide

Kai Cheng Thom - I Hope We Choose Love

Lisa Lowe - The Intimacies of Four Continents

Mohamed Jean Veneuse - “transnational decolonization is the solution”

Tiffany Lethabo King Interviewed by Feral Feminisms

Tuck and Yang - “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor”

Gloria Wekker - The Politics of Passion

David Valentine - “Chapter 4: The Making of a Field” in Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category (email for access)

Joseph Massad - “Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World”

On respectability politics

Al Qaws on pinkwashing