Friday essay: The Qur’an, the Bible and homosexuality in Islam

For Muslims generally, as for conservative Christians, homosexual acts are sinful. Christian gays and lesbians have had to work hard for a measure of recognition among fellow-believers; their Muslim counterparts are just beginning that struggle.

The Feminist Movement in Saudi Arabia - Viewpoint Magazine

What that July 2016 call would quickly unleash was something no one anticipated: Saudi Arabia’s first feminist mass movement.

Islamic Feminism Twenty Years On: The Economy Of A Debate And New Fields of Research

Sexualität und Islam: "Ein kulturelles Erbe wird unterdrückt"

Warum wurde Sex in muslimisch geprägten Ländern zum Tabuthema? Der Theologe Ali Ghandour erklärt, was die Kolonialzeit damit zu tun hat - und was Aufklärung für Geflüchtete bringt.

Feministische Theologie: "Es geht bei Adam und Eva los"

Warum Feminismus in der Theologie noch immer aktuell ist

Diskurse des islamischen Feminismus | Salah | GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft

Diskurse des islamischen Feminismus

What Ottoman erotica teaches us about sexual pluralism | Aeon Ideas

Sex before sexual identity: what Ottoman erotica teaches about pleasure, pluralism, and their liberating possibilities

Ich bin eine ideologische Feministin, und das ist auch gut so

Religion: Gott, die letzte Leerstelle

Als die Feministinnen um mich herum aus der Kirche austraten, blieb ich und fand zu Gott. Es war nicht leicht, ihn nach 4.000 Jahren Patriarchat wieder freizulegen.

The face of feminism is no longer just white and middle class

Much has changed since the white-dominated feminist activism of the past.

As a Queer Muslim Woman, the Most Radical Thing I Can Do Is Insist on Existing

Everyone has trouble imagining me, and yet, I’m very real.

Islam and Queer Muslims

Mohamed Abdou, Mohamed Jean Veneuse Islam and Queer Muslims Identity and Sexuality in the Contemporary World 2019, March A thesis submitted to the...

This Queer Muslim Woman Is Busting Down the Patriarchy

Wazina Zondon is penetrating the subconscious of what it means to be queer and Muslim in America. 

Queer Muslim Women Reflect On Navigating Their Faith and Sexuality

"I love my sexuality and I know it’s valid, I just wish my family could understand me."

Homoerotic poetry in Islam: Reeling with desire - Qantara.de

What role did homoeroticism play in Islamic poetry written between the 13th and 15th centuries? We need look no further than Rumi and Babur. By Melanie Christina Mohr

An extract from 'Unicorn' by Amrou Al-Kadhi

In an extract from their book ‘Unicorn’, Amrou Al-Kadhi (aka Glamrou) explains how they discovered the queerness in their faith

A Master Class in Women’s Rage - Electric Literature

Want to understand what all the women you know are so angry about? Here’s a syllabus

Gender Jihad: Conditions of Muslim women in Nigeria (I), by Aliyu Dahiru Aliyu

Let me start by stating this clearly so as to block religious zealots, the so called “defenders of Islam” and spokespersons of the religion, from raining insults on this poor writer.

Gender Jihad : Condition of Muslim Woman in Nigeria (2), by Aliyu Dahiru Aliyu

With few clicks that may take you to the social media accounts of the Muslim women you could understand the situation of average Muslim woman in contemporary Muslim world. There are cries from every angles that Muslim woman is battling to remove herself from tensions within and without.

Gender Jihad and Epistemic Justice by Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente

Library Genesis: Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Asultany, Nadine Naber - Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging

Library Genesis is a scientific community targeting collection of books on natural science disciplines and engineering.

Library Genesis: Anissa Hélie, Homa Hoodfar - Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance

Library Genesis is a scientific community targeting collection of books on natural science disciplines and engineering.

Library Genesis: Anne Hege Grung - Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings: Christian and Muslim Women in Norway: Making Meaning of Texts from the Bible, the Koran, and the Hadith

Library Genesis is a scientific community targeting collection of books on natural science disciplines and engineering.

Feminism is not a numbers game, it’s about inclusion – Idees

Feminist leadership is not about the number of women in top jobs. It’s not about symbols and tokenism. It’s about the quality of women in leadership positions, the power they wield and the way they use it. It’s about the policies women leaders are willing and able to enact, their approach to the world, their ability to do things differently and their capacity to grab opportunities and face up to challenges. Women leaders aren’t credible when they focus solely on gender equality. Their impact and their relevance are strongest when they adopt and implement actions and policies which are inclusive,…

"We can be Muslim and feminist!" - sister-hood magazine. A Fuuse production by Deeyah Khan.

Zainah Anwar is the director of Musawah, a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. She was also a founding member and former executive director of Sisters in Islam, a Malaysian non-governmental organization working on women’s rights...

Men in charge? Rethinking authority in Muslim legal tradition

The new book Men in Charge? shows that the assumption that God gave men authority over women is a theological fiction that became a legal fiction, whose main function now is to sustain gender inequality.  

Das F-Wort - God is a woman - Feminismus & Religion

Geht das eigentlich, Feministin sein und gleichzeitig religiös? Sind Religionen nicht zu männerzentriert und patriarchal? Oder sind wir da zu engstirnig? Diese Fragen stellen sich Pola Nathusius und Dunja Sadaqi in Folge 10 und diskutieren sie mit einer orthodoxen Jüdin, die Kopftuch trägt. Außerdem zu Gast ist eine Vertreterin der katholischen Frauenprotestbewegung Maria 2.0, sowie eine muslimische Wissenschaftlerin, die den Koran feministisch auslegt.

Juliane Hammer, Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence (New Texts Out Now)

It was early 2009 and US Muslim communities were shocked into action by the murder of Aasiya Zubair, killed by her husband in a domestic violence (DV) crime that followed years of domestic abuse and her filing for divorce.

Transformationen entstehen im Prozess: Transnationale Feminismen zwischen Dekolonisierung, imperialen Verwobenheiten und der Suche nach neuen Solidaritäten

Article Transformationen entstehen im Prozess: Transnationale Feminismen zwischen Dekolonisierung, imperialen Verwobenheiten und der Suche nach neuen Solidaritäten was published on May 1, 2020 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 38, issue 1).

Provinzialismus und Semi-Intersektionalität: Fallstricke des Feminismus in postkolonialen Zeiten

Article Provinzialismus und Semi-Intersektionalität: Fallstricke des Feminismus in postkolonialen Zeiten was published on May 1, 2020 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 38, issue 1).