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HIJAB BUTCH BLUES by LAMYA H.
Alright, changing it up a bit with my book stuff but this one hit home with me. The author draws very interesting parallels between stories in the Quran and her experiences as a gay muslim woman that are very interesting. And if you think you can’t be muslim and gay, or wear a hijab and be gay, or even tackle muslim culture and queerness in one, then you’re bound to be pleasantly proved wrong with this one.
#and you know what? the way the author handles the concept of coming out and anonymity is so fucking relatable#the author remains anonymous per her own choice and thats fucking something#lgbtq books#lgbt books#book recommendations#lgbt book recs#queer book recommendations#queer books#gay muslim#lesbian muslim#queer muslim#muslim representation#muslim books#lgbt muslim#lgbtq muslim#lgbt+ books#hijab butch blues#lamya h#hijab butch blues lamya
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Would any other queer Muslims please reblog/like this post? I desperately want to become mutuals with y’all ❤️
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I am a muslim girl who loves Allah (SWT). Who wants to be better at praying. Who wants to wear khimars and abayas and jilbabs. Who wants to go to the masjid every day. Who wants to read the entire Quran. Who wants to get married to a good muslim man.
I am a muslim girl who loves girls. Who tears up and the sight of a pride parade. Who cant decide between purple or pink. Who knows she's not straight. Who knows God made her this way.
I am a muslim girl who watches BLs and listens to kpop. Who finds beauty in fictional relationships and pretty dances. Who gains comfort through music.
I am a muslim girl who is autistic. Who can't always wear hijab. Who can't enjoy new foods with unfamiliar flavors. Who gets lost and anxious in new places and situations. Who has to stim after a while of sitting still.
I am a muslim girl with trauma. Who fears people in authority and is scared of her nightmares. Who wants to reconcile with her parents but is afraid of losing herself along the way. Who wants to learn about her new faith but can't bring herself to trust scholars.
I am a muslim girl. I am not a picture pefect muslim and I will never be. And that's okay, because that's what makes me ... Me.
#queer muslim#lgbt muslim#muslim#revert islam#queer#muslim lesbian#lesbian muslim#bisexual muslim#bisexual#autistic women#actually autistic#trauma#religious lgbt#lgbt
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Queer Muslim Pride Babes !
#Gay Halal#Love is not Haram#Queer and Halal#queer muslim#Queer Muslimah#lesbianmuslim#lesbian muslim#trans muslimah#love has no labels#Love has no borders#Love wins over hate#queerummah
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I’m late to the party but there’s finallyyyyyy a book for the fat Black Lesbians 🥹💜 As a Lesbian Muslimah, Kris has my entire freaking heart. I hate that I’m almost at the end of the story. If anyone knows more Black lesbian literature please let me know! I’ll love you forever <3
p.s. I’m thinking about uploading a little book review…we’ll see 🦑 ~
#d’vaughn#Kris#d’vaughn and kris#d’vaughn x Kris#d’vaughn and kris plan a wedding#black lesbians#black lesbian#black lesbian literature#black lesbian book#black women wlw#black sapphic#black sapphic literature#book review#lesbian book review#lesbian#fat women#black fat women#fat lesbians#plus sized book#fat black lesbians#queer Muslim#lesbian Muslim
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Hello, I’m Ameera a 23 years old Muslim lesbian who is trying to come out, I’ve been in the closet with my girlfriend for way too long, because of how dangerous and hard it is to come out as a lesbian to a religious Muslim family, but me and my girlfriend have decided to do whatever it takes and risk it all to come out, do you mind supporting and encouraging us?, we have the plan to go away which is why I have my donation campaign pinned on my profile, if I raise at least that goal I can start the process with my savings, I can’t come out until I’d gotten my apartment and I’m away from family, so please support by donating if you can and help reblog though I know we all have what we dealing with, so I’m not imposing we just need all the support and encouragement we can get, check my pinned post for more information on how you can support, if you are a Muslim queer and you are out, please help with tips on how to make it less complicated, any word of advice is also really needed, we really wanna come out but we need y’all 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ pride please come through for us, I believe pride is for all
so so sorry but I am struggling with money myself right now and unable to donate. still, though, I wish you the absolute best of luck!!! I'll be sure to reblog from you to help boost. you've got this:)
#boost#signal b00st#b00st#donate if you can#please donate#donate#queer#queer supporting queer#lesbian#lesbian in need#muslim#muslim in need#raise money#signal boost#queer in need#lesbian muslim#muslim lesbian#help#!!!
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Something about drawing women in love with cultural clothes makes me insane in a good way, it shows us how love has always been around, we were just scared to show it.
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I figured out a solution to get around some of the issues regarding marriage and sex as a polyamorous Bi-lebsian Muslim
I legally marry a Trans masculine person (I'm transfem) so it's "straight" religiously have it but a multi wife relationship, but in practice the whole thing is just one big polycule
I'm so clever
This would basically make it impossible to argue against make a super sturdy case (unless there is a little thing in the Qur'an somewhere that forbays this in case it's back to drawing board)
#muslim revert#islam#queer muslim#lesbian muslim#trans muslim#polyamory#polyam relationship#marriage#t4t lesbian#trans for trans
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A Jihad for Love (2008)
Director - Parvez Sharma
Producer - Sandi Simcha Dubowski
Cinematography - Parvez Sharma, Berke Baş,David W. Leitner
Writer - Javed Haider Zaidi
Cast - Imam Muhsin Hendricks,Arsham Parsi,Maryam,Abdellah,Mazen,Ferda,Qasim,Ahsan,Amir,Mojtaba,Kiymet,Sana,Maha,Pedram Abdi (Payam)
Languages - Arabic,Farsi,Urdu,Bengali, Hindi,English,French,German,English,Turkish,etc
Genre - •LGBTQ •Islam •Documentary
Year of Release - 21 May,2008
Box office - $105,651
Awards - •Best Documentary Award,MIX BRASIL •Best Documentary, Image+Nation Film Festival •Best Documentary,The Tri-Continental Film Festival,India • GLAAD Media Award •Teddy Award,etc
A Jihad for Love (preceded by a short film called In the Name of Allah) is an award-winning international documentary on Homosexuality & Islam.It took total six years to make this groundbreaking documentary.Parvez Sharma took the risk to film this documentary in most dangerous country (like Islamic Republic of Iran,Iraq, Saudi Arabia,Pakistan,Egypt).Homosexuality is a punishable crime in most Muslim World.
The work that Sharma started with this film has become a staple in many books on Islam and at U.S. University libraries.The website Faith in Equality put it at number 9 in a list of LGBT films about faith.IMDb rates the film at 13 on its list of 58 titles under the category of "Best documentaries on religion, spirituality & cults".The film first premiered at the TIFF in 2007, and has been screened to great acclaim at several film festivals around the world.The film went on to win 15 other international awards.
Plot
At starting it shows a glimpse of Islam across the globe.The film first featured Hendrick Muhsin, a South African,Pakistani Gay & Muslim.He is also the first Out Gay Imam of Africa.Filmmaker Parvez got into the deep of Hendicks's personal life struggles,his understanding of Islam & reconciliation of intersecting identities.
Mazen, an Egyptian effeminate muslim was arrested in 2001, in a gay nightclub named Queen Boat.He was beaten,forced to stand trial twice on "debauchery" charges & sentenced to a total of 4 years in prison, where he was raped.He eventually moved to Paris.Mazen also has left his families & friends in Egypt.
Sana is a Black Lesbian refugee, & a victim of FGM.She has a deeper understanding of Islam & told Parvez that Queerness is not against Islam.Sana didn't have any kind of sexual relation with any women.But she had intimate loving relations with women.Like others, she came to France as a refugee.Sana befriend with Maryam & Mazen.
Maryam is Moroccan-born queer womxn who lives in Paris.Her girlfriend Maha lives in Egypt.Both lovers met each other on Bint-al Nas - a meeting site for Arab LBTQ womxn.Maryam still believes that she deserves punishment for her lesbian sexual relationship.Both have survived abusive marriages and can only share their love for each other in private.Maryam & Maha go on a shared journey of search and discovery of female homosexuality.In Al-Azhar, they discover an old bookstore where they find a copy of the Fiqh al-Sunnah(The Laws of the Prophet).In the heart of an ancient mosque in the Citadel,they discover beautiful Islamic calligraphy as they declare their impossible love for each other.
Amir, an Iranian gay shia who has respect for Imam Hosseini.He sacrificed his life for Allah & reconciling his muslim faith.While in Iran, he was persecuted under the charges of illicit sexual conduct,illicit mannerism & received 100 lashes.After being brutally beaten and tortured in the police custody.The judge also threatened Amir that he should be punished by stoning.However he was sentenced to flogging.He told Sharma that Allah helped him to escape this traumatic situation.He fled to Turkey as soon as well.There he met 3 gay refugees - Arsham,Payam,Mojtaba.Mojtaba, another (Persian) gay muslim who ran away from Iran,due to his same sex marriage ceremony in 2005.
Ferda & Kiymet are a happy couple in Turkiye.Kiymet belongs from a conservative family.In her early Kiymet's marriage was fixed with a man.Kiymet's marriage ended up at divorce.Then she found Ferda, her soulmate.Ferda's mom is very supportive & tolerant of sexuality.Ferda is a devout sufi queer muslim, who honors Rumi - a prominent sufi icon for both LGBTQ+ & Straight Muslims.
Ahsan & Qasim are queer platonic friends.Ahsan is a Sunni Muslim & Qasim is a Shia Muslim.Both men, belongs from poor backgrounds do not adopt the western peronae of ‘gay’ and instead rely on vernacular terms.Ahsan & Qasim are part of transvestite,transgender community called Zenana,Kothi in Northern India.Most of these community hide themselves from public.Ahsan,Qasim find a safe space in his community.While Qasim is struggling with his sexuality in heteronormative society.
The filmmaker also documented the diverse tolerance of sexuality in sufi traditions (Pakistan,India & Turkey).
Is it the first film on Islam & Homosexuality?
''A Jihad for Love'' is called world's 1st film on Islam & Homosexuality.A Jihad for Love would be an international feature documentary film rather than world's first film on LGBT muslims.However there are several films that focused on LGBTQ muslim or Queerness in Islam.For Example:
Road to Love (2001)
Act of Faith (2002)
Haremde dört kadin (1965)
Hammam al-Malatily (1973)
Köçek (1975)
Ihtiras Firtinasi (1984)
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Marcides (1993)
Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996)
Hamam (1997)
Lola & Billy the Kid (1999)
Production
Bismillah (In the name of Allah) was considered as an early working title for this documentary.Among muslims,the word Bismillah is very auspicious & used before beginning actions,speech,writing.But the tittle was not considered as the final title of this film due to controversy.
A Jihad for Love is produced by Halal Films, in association with the Sundance Documentary Film Fund,Channel 4 (UK),ZDF (Germany),Arte (France-Germany),Logo (US) & SBS Australia.The director & producer Parvez Sharma & co-producer Sandi Dubowski raised more than a million dollars over a 6 years period to make the film.
In an interview with The NY Times,Parvez Sharma said that he "would shoot touristy footage on the first 15 minutes & the last 15 minutes of a tape", with interviews for documentary in between, to avoid having his footage seized at customs.He compiled 400 hours of footage from a dozen countries ranging from Iraq to Pakistan to the UK.The nature of the work placed him at considerable personal risk.He adopted hardcore guerrilla film-making tactics,pretending to be a tourist in one country,a worker for an AIDS charity in another country.Wherever he went,he asked his queer friends to keep copies of footage and destroy the tapes once he had successfully smuggled the masters out of the country.
During his filmmaking Parvez traveled several countries including Pakistan, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, USA, UK, Turkey, France, Saudi Arabia, South Africa,[...].
Interviews
In an interview with NY Times magazine,Parvez Sharma said,"Being gay and Muslim myself,I knew that this film had to be about us all coming out— as Muslims. It's about claiming the Islam that has been denied to us." With a target audience of "faithful Muslims," he undertook a variety of outreach tactics, including leafleting mosques,blanketing MySpace,screening in Astoria for 15 key progressive Muslim leaders.In an interview to Der Spiegel, Sharma explained the significance of the title: "I'm not looking at jihad as battle.I'm looking at the greater jihad in Islam, which is the jihad as the struggle with the self.I also thought it was really compelling to take a word that only has one connotation for most -- to take that, reclaim it and put it in the same phrase as love,which is universal.I really think it explains it very well.
Film Screening
A Jihad for Love first premiered in Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF) in September 2007.At its premier,the director was given a security guard for safety reasons.After this film festival A Jihad for Love got huge applaud internationally.A Jihad for Love film premiered as the opening film of Panorama Documente of the Berlin Film Festival in February 2008.
The film was screened in The Rio Film Festival,Brazil on September 2007,Morelia Film Festival,Mexico, on October 2007,The Sheffield DocFest on November 2007,London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on March 2008,Melbourne International Film Festival on July 2008,Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival on March 2008,etc.A Jihad for Love's first premier in African continent was The Out in Africa Film Festival in Johannesburg and Cape Town,November 2007. On April,2008 A Jihad for Love film was successfully screened at Istanbul International Film Festival.It was the first time that the film allowed to screen in a muslim-majority country.Film also screened in Q! Film Festival of Indonesia.Although singapore banned the film from festival in 2008 due to its sensitive subject.
Popularity
A Jihad for Love film's sale and broadcast on NDTV, South Asia's largest network in 2008 would have a "remarkable" impact on this LGBTQ cause. "NDTV's broadcast has in effect made the film available to over one billion viewers in India,Bangladesh,Pakistan, & large portions of the Middle East and Africa.The various distributors and their Total Rating Points in European television, the Indian/South-Asian sale with its claimed footprint of 15 billion viewers, the theatrical release & the purportedly large numbers of Netflix viewers made the filmmakers and the TRP experts arrive at a number of 8 million total viewers calculated over a period of four years for this documentary.
International Muslim Dialogue Project
Immediately after the film's theatrical launch around the USA,Parvez & Sandi launched the International Muslim Dialogue Project on 2008.The aim of the project was to organize screenings of the film in Muslim Capitals.Sharma called it the "Underground Network Model" of film distribution.He invented this model sending unmarked DVD's of the film with friends & colleagues to Muslim capitals across the world with full permission to sell pirated copies.Some of the boldest were Beirut,Cairo,Karachi,eight cities in Indonesia & Kuala Lumpur
The film was screened privately screened in Iran,Palestine,Bangladesh and Somalia.
#gay muslim#lgbtq muslim#homosexuality in islam#homosexual muslim#muslim gay#lesbianmuslim#lesbian muslim#arab#asian#qtpoc#documentary
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Hello, I’m Ameera a 23 years old Muslim lesbian who is trying to come out, I’ve been in the closet with my girlfriend for way too long, because of how dangerous and hard it is to come out as a lesbian to a religious Muslim family, but me and my girlfriend have decided to do whatever it takes and risk it all to come out, do you mind supporting and encouraging us?, we have the plan to go away which is why I have my donation campaign pinned on my profile, if I raise at least that goal I can start the process with my savings, I can’t come out until I’d gotten my apartment and I’m away from family, so please support by donating if you can and help reblog though I know we all have what we dealing with, so I’m not imposing we just need all the support and encouragement we can get, check my pinned post for more information on how you can support, if you are a Muslim queer and you are out, please help with tips on how to make it less complicated, any word of advice is also really needed, we really wanna come out but we need y’all 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ pride please come through for us, I believe pride is for all
I'll donate when I get my paycheck. I'm very broke after paying my bills this month. The only advice I can think of is that if your parents don't have the vocabulary to understand, they won't. I'm partly out the closest myself but I don't like talking about it with my parents bc they just don't understand. Hope everything gose well for you🩷
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As a lesbian, I know what it's like to cover my face when I walk past Victoria's secret at the mall, that's why this month, I'm partnering with Islam
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Rant warning;
Having a massive struggle of faith because I’m in this Islamic class and the teacher is such a knowledgeable person but she and everyone else keep saying homophobic things and it makes me feel so discouraged to keep practicing.
Like she was indirectly saying that Muslims should avoid interacting with lgbtqa+ people. Which makes me mad on so many levels, but most of all I’m not gonna stop talking to my sisters that I love second only to Allah swt just because of your discriminatory and hateful stances
Any advice I would love
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It's taken me a few weeks but I think I'm beginning to shift my mindset. Praying really does relax me after a hard day. I'm still trying not to miss prayers during the work day.
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#black and white#bnwo propaganda#bnwofinstagram#mnwo#lesbian#muslim supremacy#muslim superiority#muslim master#qos4bbc#bmnwo#sissy muslimah#arab superiority
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Y’all there’s a thread on twitter of lesbians over 40 years old and it’s making me cry 😭🩷 I’ll try to link it here but the replies are so freaking beautiful 🧡🩷🤍❤️💜
https://x.com/ujuanya/status/1783195771489194133?s=46
#lesbian#lesbian visibility week#black lesbian#black lesbians#fat black lesbians#lesbian muslim#lesbians over 40#fat lesbians#femme#Butch
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lesbian and queer fashion includes hijabs, niqabs, burqas, and other religious and cultural clothing. queer muslims, queer jewish people, queer people of color, should not have to choose between their faith and their presentation. they do not need to sacrifice their cultural clothing in order to satisfy western standards of queer gender presentation. butch and femme muslims, jewish people, and poc who wear niqabs, burqas, niqabs, yarmulkes, etc- are not “straying” from lesbian fashion or culture, they are adding to it and making it more rich and beautiful. all sapphics deserve to feel safe in their head coverings. if you’re a sapphic who wears head coverings/body coverings or cultural clothing of some sort, you are valuable and beautiful just as you are.
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