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.
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Thanks again to Abrar and Aram, our lovely volunteers. Go Team Go.
References and further reading:
Mohamed jean Veneuse - Islam and Queer Muslims: Identity and Sexuality in the Contemporary World
Aqdas Aftab - “Invisibilized Resistance”
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”