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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
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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
Customer Reviews
Feels like home
Thank you
Just getting through episode two hamdillah
Feeling grateful to you Maha. Wishing you success in your project inshallah! Selfishly hoping you continue with this afterwards:3
May Allah guide toi
May Allah guide this ummah .The prophet Lut cursed his people because of what u guys doing, Fear Allah
The podcast we’ve all been waiting for!
What an incredible podcast that is willing to touch on serious taboos and break them down into easily understandable topics. Everyone should listen to this podcast whether you’re queer and Muslim or not!