Naming our sexualities: Secular constraints, Muslim freedoms
Terms of a Western discourse of homosexuality shape conflicts surrounding sexual identity that are faced by many Muslims, especially those who live in diasporic communities. Many use essentialized categories to articulate their sexual orientations and express incommensurabilities between their sexuality and their identities as Muslims. This article argues that discursive constructions of the Muslim as traditional other to the secular sexual subject of a modern democracy generate an uninhabitable subject position that sharply dichotomizes sexual orientations and Muslim family/religious orientations, a dichotomization that is reinforced by well-publicized backlashes against open homosexuality in several Muslim countries. Yet observations made during ethnographic field research in Pakistan, as well as scholarly evidence from other Muslim countries, suggest that many Muslims are less troubled by sex and desire in all their possible forms than they are by the peculiar modern practice of naming our sexualities as the basis for secular public identities.
Naming our sexualities: Secular constraints, Muslim freedoms
Very relevant. Do read.
Here's a free link to my personal PDF library
docs.google.comBecause everyone is doing this delightful thing in honor of Aaron Swartz’s memory.
It’s mostly documents regarding
- Evo Psych
- Empathy
- Attribution
- Parasociality
- Gender/Sexuality
- Representation
Hopefully they enhance and augment your studies, your work, and your experience of the world as they have mine.
Defending Reproductive Justice Activist Resource Kit
politicalresearch.orgOn April 12th, Political Research Associates (PRA) debuted its 2013 Defending Reproductive Justice activist resource kit at the annual Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) conference.
Since its creation in 2000, the activist resource kit (ARK) has been used by thousands of reproductive justice advocates nationwide to understand and challenge right-wing messaging and strategies. The new edition, launched during the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, acknowledges that despite the groundbreaking decision legalizing abortion, many women and transgender individuals remain unable to access their reproductive rights.
In addition to exploring attacks on abortion and contraceptive rights, expanded sections provide in-depth analysis of reproductive abuses and additional right-wing frames, such “Black genocide,” “fetal personhood,” and “abstinence-only.” The overview written by Malika Redmond, former PRA lead gender justice researcher and currently Executive Director of Spark Reproductive Justice Now!, looks at the Right’s racialized strategies, “religious liberty” argument, and targeting of rape survivors.
PRA and CLPP, both founded about three decades ago, share a long history of opposing attacks on reproductive rights and health. We were proud to launch the 2013 ARK at the CLPP conference, “From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom,” where Redmond, PRA researcher Rev. Kapya Kaoma, and PRA Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos all spoke on panels.
Defending Reproductive Justice is now available online for free download by social justice advocates, journalists, scholars, and the public. Also watch for a
