June 2013
36 posts
“Finding within Islam” would be my alternative to “reconciling with Islam”.
Reconciliation carries a large set of assumptions: about Islam, how it relates to the world, and how we relate to it. When reconciling, our focus is set outwards, as opposed to being inwards
I’m still mulling it over, but it’s really growing on me
The Male Ga(y)ze. The Orientalist Ga(y)ze. The Western Ga(y)ze. The Homosexual Ga(y)ze.
“Shut up white boy and let the subalterns speak”
—Screamed that out in my dream last night!
“Colonialism is a regime of lies. It systemically dismembers and subsequently hides truth. The mechanisms behind the production of lies are themselves institutional. In each and every wing of its organization, from its law to its media, from its medicine to its social sciences, from its political figures to its managerial personnel, the capacity to produce lies in a synchronized and harmonious fashion constitutes the foundations of a colonial regime. A colonial regime usurps not only labor and productive resources of a people, but also aims at usurping the very foundations of their truth. Hence, violence, law, and knowledge operate in such seamless harmony. Colonialism is a disaster that continuously poisons and rots bodies and social relations. Only through truth, and nothing but the truth, could one stand up to this disaster. Truth, meanwhile, is only produced through resistance, action, and solidarity. Once faced with the truth of a people who resist, act, and stand in solidarity, the colonial order of things loses its capacity to produce lies.”
—Nazan Üstündağ
Discourse on (un)veiling in a nutshell: unveil, reveil, surveil, preveil
Sext :
When you appear, rainbows disappear
I creep like sharia. I creep like sharia. I creep like sharia. I creep like sharia. I creep…
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.Or does it explode?
— Langston Hughes
Liberalympics!
Games include oppression-lifting, swimming against a current, platitude-throwing, instapunditry, binaryball, speed saving and cab racing
“The Muslim woman is the object of imperial rescue, justification for imperial warfare, Orientalist cipher, target of jihadist violence, and, increasingly, the discursive site upon which the central preoccupation of our time—how do you free yourself from freedom?—is worked out.”
—Sadia Abbas
Whenever I come across variations of “what does Islam say about x?” I think of Islam.
