queer muslim resistance OPIRG Kingston

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

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 

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/

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

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

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