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“Allah Makes Muslims, Allah Makes Queers”: A Interview with Terna Tilley-Gyado of Coming Out Muslim


Posted by anike on 08 Apr 2014 / 1 Comment
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Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love is a storytelling performance that highlights the experiences of LGBT Muslims. While I was aware of Coming Out Muslim, I did not realise that one of the people behind the project is a West African Muslimah. I was connected with Terna Tilley-Gyado through a mutual friend Mikael Owunna […]

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Fat, Brown, Muslim LBT Women Say No


Posted by Guest Contributor on 13 Aug 2013 / 2 Comments
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This post was written by guest contributor Fakhra Hassan (@DragittotheTop). “Fatness and obesity in Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans (LBT) women are a result of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – self-inflicted abuse on the body in order to shun any unwanted sexual attention or emotional interest from people,” said Dr Pinar Ilkkaracan of Turkey, at the […]

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Black Muslim Lesbians Find Community in Atlanta’s Gay Mecca: Part 2


Posted by sharrae on 29 May 2013 / 0 Comments
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In Part 1 of this post, I introduced to you activist, artist and documentary filmmaker Red Summer. She along with the women in her upcoming film Al Nisa: Muslim Women in Atlanta’s Gay Mecca have been creating intentional spaces of community for Black Lesbian Muslims, where they can share and connect without negotiating the multiple […]

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Black Muslim Lesbians Find Community in Atlanta’s Gay Mecca: Part 1


Posted by sharrae on 29 May 2013 / 2 Comments
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Oppression works in strategic ways. When we think of who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed, as Muslim women in “the West” we often automatically think about the white liberal feminist who speaks on the behalf of “Third World” women, women of colour and Muslim women. However, what about the level of social […]

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Culture/Society

Creating Spaces of Reconciliation: Queer Muslims Congregate


Posted by sharrae on 20 Mar 2013 / 0 Comments
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Queer Muslim. These two words appear to be incongruent terms in many contexts; however, there has been a real commitment recently to creating a discourse that allows for queer Muslim voices to be respected and validated. It is tiring to be caught in conversations when the various parties cannot accept each other simply for their […]

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Trans and Muslim: Portraying the Lives of Warias in Indonesia


Posted by eren on 20 Sep 2012 / 0 Comments
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I recently came across a short movie on the life of transsexual Muslims in Indonesia. In the last few years, MMW has covered a few different stories in terms of LGBT activism in Indonesia: issues concerning transgender and transsexual communities, the challenges faced by lesbians and the attempts to bring LGTBQ issues to the public […]

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On the To-Watch List: Braids on a Bald Head


Posted by anike on 18 Sep 2012 / 0 Comments
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Braids on a Bald Head is a short movie, released in 2010, by Nigerian director Ishaya Bako.  The film shows the day in the life of a poor, married hairdresser, Hauwa Bello, “who through a brief homosexual encounter is able to muster up courage and stand up to her inattentive husband and ask for better.” […]

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Culture/Society

Are We So Different: A Documentary Short Film That Falls Short of Telling Women’s Stories


Posted by diana on 19 Jun 2012 / 0 Comments
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Taking the title of “Best Documentary Short Film 2012” in the third Mumbai International Queer Film Festival is the telling documentary, “Amra Ki Etoi Bhinno.” The KASHISH – Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, an annual event held in Mumbai, India since 2010, screens films related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer issues India and […]

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Intersections of Gender and Sexuality: LGBT Muslims in the U.S.


Posted by diana on 10 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments
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Intersections International, a New York-based nonprofit that “works at the intersection of communities in conflict” to “promote peace through dialogue using direct service programs, advocacy, educational and informational outreach,” recently published a report called the “Muslim LGBT Inclusion Project.” The report is a narrative summary of the research done by the project, which started in […]

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A Letter from the MMW Editors


Posted by fatemeh on 25 Oct 2010 / 0 Comments
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On Thursday, Eren published a great piece on the marginalization of lesbians in Indonesia. As with all MMW pieces, it received mixed feedback. Because we are fairly diligent regarding comment moderation, no comments that violated MMW’s comment moderation policy were approved. On our Facebook page, however, there is no initial comment moderation. Thus, several hurtful […]

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