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A podcast from OPIRG Kingston centring queer Muslim dreaming for collective liberation.
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Islam! The O.G. House of Anti-Capitalism - A Conversation with Elias
This episode, Elias and Maha talk about artivism, sex education, mutual aid and turning outdoor gatherings and protests into queer masjds-on-the-go. Taylor joins Maha for a debrief.
You can find Elias on Instagram @strawberreli and their website here.
Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content. Email: queermuslimresistance@gmail.com
References and further reading:
Masjid Al Rabia Faith Not Fear Fund
EIias' queer Muslim masterpost
The Indigenous Anarchist on mutual aid and charity
Nawal H. Ammar - Restorative Justice in Islam: Theory and Practice
The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice edited by Michael L. Hadley -
Hello Islam, My Old Friend: A Conversation with Ejel
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
Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content. Email: queermuslimresistance@gmail.com
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 -
Sari Not Sorry - A Conversation With Sari
This episode, Sari and Maha talk about Islamic culture vs religion, culture X religion, Maghrebian Tunisian diaspora communities, & being Muslim enough. Taylor and Nicole join Maha for a debrief.
You can find Sari on Instagram @sarihellara and @livingearthlings
Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content. Email: queermuslimresistance@gmail.com
A huge thank you to our volunteers, Abrar and Aram; their compassion and generosity has fuelled this project’s continuation. We owe them a lot!
References and further reading:
Inclusive Mosque UK
https://inclusivemosque.org/
The Arabization of Islam
https://www.thepvblication.com/post/the-arabisation-of-islam
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2008/01/the_arabization_of_islam/
Omid Safi’s Radical Love
https://bookshop.org/books/radical-love-teachings-from-the-islamic-mystical-tradition/9780300248616
Omid Safi’s Sufi Heart Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sufi-heart-with-omid-safi/id1427714471
Sari’s Living Earthlings Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/5N9Xndhm1ynK09C9GOwUU3
Muslims for Progressive Values
https://www.mpvusa.org/ -
Not Today Haram Police, Not Today: A Conversation with Sufi
This episode, Sufi and Maha talk about harmful judgements, being outed, eventually finding a plethora of Queer Muslim communities online, Queer Ummah and Queer Muslim Liberation. Taylor and Nicole join Maha for a debrief.
You can find Sufi on Instagram @sufi.sun and on Twitter @sufisun7
Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content. Email: queermuslimresistance@gmail.com
A huge thank you to our volunteers, Abrar, Aram and Zara; their compassion and generosity has fuelled this project’s continuation. We owe them a lot!
References and further reading:
https://www.malikah.org/
https://www.hidayahlgbt.com/
http://www.queercrescent.org/
https://hearttogrow.org/
Halal if You Hear Me - Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo ["Queer Brown Futures (Or Lack Thereof) Pg 153] https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1273-the-breakbeat-poets-vol-3 -
There's Always Room to Grow - A Conversation with Noor
This episode, Noor talks to Maha about being “disabled and”, and the importance of centring accessibility in community spaces. Taylor and Nicole join Maha for a debrief.
You can find Noor on Twitter @snoringdoggo and on snoringdoggo.dog
The transcript will be linked ASAP.
Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content, and information and updates on the podcast. Visit patreon.com/queermuslimresistance to support us financially. Email: queermuslimresistance@gmail.com -
Dreaming Abolition - A Conversation with The Abolitionist Dream Mappers
This episode, Maha, Muna, Beverly and Renée talk about abolition as a relational project, and the central role dreaming has in imagining and co-creating futures of collective liberation.
The Abolitionist Dream Mappers’ website will be live in 2021.
Follow us on Instagram @queermuslimresistance for queer muslim content. Email: queermuslimresistance@gmail.com
References and further reading:
RUTH WILSON GILMORE MAKES THE CASE FOR ABOLITION
“Muslim Abolitionists on Islam, Carceral Systems, and the Surveillance State” by Vanessa Taylor
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study - by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney