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).

Library Genesis: Penny A. Weiss - Feminist Manifestos. A Global Documentary Reader

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

'A queer cry for freedom': Meet the LGBTQ Palestinians demanding liberation - +972 Magazine

Hundreds took part in a demonstration in support of LGBTQ Palestinians following a tumultuous year for the queer community.

Women’s Trousers and Such

When women’s rights advocates in Europe and the United States first promoted trousers for women, many of them were pointedly not imitating men. They were imitating other women, Muslim women.

How African Feminism and Afropolitanism Shaped the Cultural Agenda of the Decade and How They Might Influence the Next One

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or orientation . . . stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger. – Ben Okri *** The word potent

A Muslim American Reflects on the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

As America marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote– in practice it was primarily reserved for white women, we reflect on gender…

Feminism in Turkey

The ‘question of women’s rights’ has been asked and answered in very different ways in Turkey since the founding of the secular republic in 1923. Ayşe Durakbaşa traces this history from ‘state feminism’ to the second wave and the Islamic Women’s Movement, shedding new light on the ruling AKP party’s legislative agenda.

Secular, Islamic or Muslim feminism? The Place of Religion in Women’s Perspectives on Equality in Islam | Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research

The Western focus on ‘Islamic feminism’ takes two extreme forms: it is often dismissed as an oxymoron for attaching a religious (patriarchal) adjective to an emancipatory feminist project, or it is hailed as a road to a lib...

Interview with Moroccan Islamic feminist Asma Lamrabet: Emancipation through a new reading of the Koran - Qantara.de

Moroccan physician and author Asma Lamrabet is one of the foremost representatives of Islamic feminism in North Africa. She urges Arab women to follow their own path, distinct from Western feminism, in order to liberate themselves from male paternalism. Claudia Mende spoke to her in Rabat

Project MUSE - Theory & Event-Volume 23, Number 4 Supplement, October 2020

Emanzipation durch die Schrift

Mit dem Koran und Mohammed für die Rechte muslimischer Frauen. Über feministische Islam-Interpretationen • Foto: imago/Xinhua

Gibt es nur mundtote islamische Frauen? Feministische Theologie im Islam

Das schon in den 90ern gerne tradierte Medienbild inszeniert den Islam als eine Religion, in der Frauen mehrheitlich die Opferrolle einnehmen. Vom Westen gänzlich unbemerkt, gibt es aber dennoch auch im Islam weibliche Stimmen, die sich aktiv mit ihrer Religion auseinandersetzen und diese in eine modernere, gleichberechtigende Richtung bringen wollen

Queer Muslim Heroes to Celebrate This Muslim Women's Day

Find out about the queer Muslim heroes you can celebrate this Muslim Women's Day, from writers to activists.

Women’s Nature in the Qur’an: Hermeneutical Considerations on Traditional and Modern Exegeses

Some verses of the holy Qur’an speak of a preference of man over woman such as 2:228, 4:34 and 43:18. One can ask whether man and woman have the same essence or whether man has certain characteristics that make him own a different and superior essence. How have exegetes understood these verses through history? Research on more than 100 classical and contemporary Shia and Sunni exegeses demonstrates that understanding of these verses was constant for centuries but was subject to evolution in the twentieth century. In this evolution, the inferiority of women in earlier exegeses was largely replaced by exegeses that provide respect and reverence for women. This change in understanding of the verses has been undoubtedly influenced by improvement in the cultural, social and economic situation of women in the twentieth century. A finding of this research is that some Qur’anic verses have the potentiality for different, and sometimes contradictory, understandings. On the other hand, the cultural and historical frameworks of the exegetes have played a crucial role in their understanding of the Qur’an. Therefore, understanding and interpreting the Qur’an is a dynamic process that should be reviewed according to the needs of the time.