MASGD reflects on how slow and persistent genocide has disabled our communities. In perpetuating a genocide, authoritarianist regimes and fascist governments have exiled disabled community members attempting to erase our existence. But, it’s through disability justice leaders and community, we’ve learned to relate to disability as a site of wisdom, interdependence, and collective care.

Rather than naming these commemorations simply for the sake of naming them, we must confront what they collectively offer as they all intersect. MASGD calls upon our community to recognize these not simply as dates, but rather as urgent calls to action.

Just as we ask ourselves important questions about Eid and the ritual holidays of our Islamic calendar and how it deepens our commitment to serving Allah, at MASGD we seek to engage with the month of Pride critically and with purpose.

MASGD’s publication recognizing International Trans Day of Visibility as a stark reminder that the most marginalized experience violence, including being murdered, when both visible and invisible.

MASGD’s statement on why Trans Muslim Liberation: [I]f we build a world where all trans Muslims are liberated, everyone will be liberated. We do this because Trans Muslims are harbingers of knowledge, connection, and unknown and unpracticed love. Us refusing to cut out pieces of ourselves to survive in this world, means we move outside systems of oppressions and access knowledge and traditions few actively access making us into the best world builders the world has ever seen.

MASGD's publication on intensified ICE violence throughout Trump’s second presidency

An excerpt of Mx. Yaffa’s book entitled “Desecrated Poppies” on MASGD’s Substack

MASGD’s Substack publication on sustainably fulfilling the Islamic obligation to redistribute wealth

MASGD’s publication on Indigenous Day of Mourning. We send radical love to our Indigenous siblings on the stolen land we operate from.

An excerpt of Mx. Yaffa’s book entitled “Whispers Beneath the Orange Grove” on MASGD’s Substack

MASGD holds space for the truth of where we live and organize: Turtle Island, land stolen through centuries of Indigenous genocide and colonial expansion.

MASGD acknowledges that amidst the onslaught of Palestinians by the zionist regime, the aggressors have continuously framed their illegitimate “state” as a “progressive” and “modern” force for trans and queer rights.

MASGD explains how the current political moment, where the elites are scrambling to uphold their narrative through unleashing all possible tactics of war simultaneously, demands we build and thoughtfully invest in mutual aid infrastructure.

As a faith-based organization, MASGD recognizes that our audience includes working class people battling slow genocide. To survive, working class people practice mutual aid. We use this essay to unpack the root cause of why we see pushback around sharing financial abundance.

MASGD’s mission to equip our communities to be front-line organizers

As we move through the antagonism and uncertainty of this moment, we recognize that our survival and success are bound to our interconnection; our ability to process, strategize, and mobilize in tandem. To honor this interconnection—and ensure fuel for the many and intersecting fights ahead—we at Borealis Philanthropy have compiled a list of early resources that we hope you will find helpful in your work. 

By Adam Entous

By Jonathan Stribling-Uss

By Nigel O'Connor

By YaliniDream and Angel Queentus

By Ward Churchill

‍It is natural to compare Gaza today and Tamils’ plight at the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War – but claims that the LTTE stood in solidarity with Palestine and got training from the PLO are dangerously misleading

By Ragavan

The Dream Defenders are a loud voice in the movement for black lives, boasting nearly 53,000 Twitter followers and national media coverage. So why have they quit the internet?

By Kate Aronoff

Article in Issue 1 of Acacia Magazine

By Naim Mian

Muslims are marking the end of Ramadan and working to create a just world free of police, prisons and punishment.

By Gabriel Arkles

A magazine of poltiics and culture for the Muslim Left

This analysis paper explores a paradigm shift that alQaws has been exploring over the past decade of its grassroots community organizing, which centers the experiences of queer Palestinians.

By @rasanbleman.nyc and @caribbeansforpalestine on Instagram

This provocation is intended to intervene in some of the current tensions around solidarity/support work as the current trajectories are counter-liberatory from Rudy’s (author) perspective.

Muhsin Hendricks attempts to reveal that Islam, in its true meaning of peace and justice, accommodates the individual’s sexual orientation as an intrinsic part of their biological and psychological makeup. 

A report of the situation of LGBT community in Morocco in 2020 by Nassawiyat

Confronting violence in the hope of resistance by Nassawiyat

Author Sanae A. explores the evolution of LGBTQ organizing in Morocco since 2011, highlighting the impact of the 20 February social movement as a catalyst for activism.

Much of the theory of what Utopia is and pathways to building Utopia are attributed to white-cis-global north males. However, communities have been dreaming of Utopia and working toward building Utopia for centuries prior to the existence of the theory we have today.

Author Ahmad Qais Munhazim (they/them) argues that imperial solidarity situates the West as morally superior and Islam as anti-queer and trans, which then contributes to an already rising Islamophobia.

During the holiday, author Imani Sebri highlights how we’re asked to be fully present and imagine how we might rest in a world that won’t quit.

Author Shahamat Uddin spotlights queer and trans Muslims in Ramadan 2024, who are creating their own celebrations to rethink tradition and feel connected.

The queering (academic) project of this special issue of Theology and Sexuality is to rupture and destabilize dominant perceptions pertaining to religious normativity and queer identitarian politics by foregrounding different and diverging positionalities, subjectivities, and relationalities.

When it comes to the future of Black liberation, writer and activist Vanessa Taylor (she/her/they/them) wants you to know that Black Muslims will be there. In catalyzing and curating spaces of Belonging for Black queer and transgender Muslims, specifically, she also wants you to know that they too, have always been here––and they have something to say and more importantly, are here to stay.

Imam Daayiee Abdullah writes this article to help individuals who may not clearly understand the ongoing debate that is utilized by Muslim religious institutions to claim that LGBT people are by nature not LGBT.

TW: Suicide

The discussion at the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific raised how religious beliefs, values and practices impact on the constructions of sexualities and masculinities and the resulting frameworks of male-to-male sex.

By Shireen Hamza

As a queer Muslim, author Urooj Arshad had no choice but to embrace and protect their communities

By Lamya H

By Lamya H

Muhammad is a Black Queer Muslim HIV+ activist who has been fighting racism within LGBTQ+ spaces for years

As a gay, black, Muslim man accused of a 'hate crime' against two gay white men, Bayna-Lehkiem El-Amin was caught in an identity trap.

Clarifying Tantawi's and Khomeini’s fatwas from the progressive Muslim standpoint

Authored by our very own, Mx. Yaffa!

Here’s an introduction to South Asian queens who deserve all the praise in the world, but are rarely celebrated.

Authored by Lamya H

Author Haroon Bashir argue sthat the strong emancipatory ethic found within the classical Islamic legal tradition would not abide by the exploitative prison systems found across various nations. Engaging Islamic law through a Liberation Theology framework, Bashir claims that a serious engagement with prison abolition discourses is a natural continuation for a tradition with such a strong precedent of emancipatory impetus.

Authored by Slingers Collective, this article finds that “although the main body of the Dec 2025 – Jan 2026 protesters was made up of precarious workers and the urban poor, it was not hard to see that the main political direction of the protests was against the working class. This direction was represented by the historical figure of Reza Pahlavi. It became possible through the media, counter-revolutionary organizing, the suppression of earlier uprisings, and the deep hopelessness of the present situation.”

“In this [Slingers Collective] article which is originally published on LeftVoice, Gianni Del Panta interviews Ida Nikou, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Stony Brook State University in New York. Her dissertation focuses on the labor movement in Iran and how the neoliberal turn has impacted workers’ rights and living conditions.”

Slingers Collective highlights how “probably the easiest thing for a left force to do when summing up the Jina uprising is to stand somewhere in the middle of two spectrums of the left that had already taken shape.”

“We, the queers, are here and everywhere: traversing the streets, factories, workshops, schools, universities, cities, and villages. This manifesto, crafted by the Iranian Queer Communists Committee, delineates organizational strategies for our struggle and initiates a means for fundamental transformations against institutions that seek to repress us, such as prison, persecution, and execution, as well as slops of your “human rights” which you throw at us on rare occasions.”

“This article is written by the “Secret Women’s Committee,” a newly formed secret women’s organization within Iran. Throughout the text, “woman” means anyone who identifies with the female gender/identity and, as a result of this identification, is deprived of privileges based on the gender binary of woman/man. These individuals can also experience various forms of oppression stemming from patriarchal values.”

An article by Slingers Collective outlining the class composition and horizon of the December 2025 protests and the urgent tasks ahead of us.

“Across diasporic media ecosystems and international policy conversations, “Iran” is too often reduced to a narrow and familiar script. People are represented either as passive victims awaiting external rescue, or as heroic subjects whose sacrifice can be converted into justification for sanctions escalation, military strikes, or monarchist restorationist fantasies.” Authored by Ida Nikou and Manijeh Moradian.

“This is what we are dealing with now in Iran: Imperialist powers, led by the United States, are preparing the ground for an attack, portending bombardment, civil war, and immense destruction. At the same time, the Iranian state has sealed off the country and cut all lines of communication, and is killing those inside.” Authored by Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh

“Recent protests triggered by currency collapse and price shocks expose how sanctions have reconfigured state power, enabling austerity and insider accumulation rather than relief.” Authored by Ida Nikou

“‘The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked when a fire spreads without discrimination. Once the blaze begins, distinctions collapse: between the combustible and the damp, the guilty and the innocent, perpetrators and victims.” Authored by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Hoda Katebi, “[a]n Iranian American[,] reflects on how the diaspora, grieving for the Iranians caught between domestic repression and imperialist intervention, came to be at war with itself.”

“One June 1, 2026, the Iranian researcher, writer, and activist, Yashar Darolshafa, was beaten and arrested in Tehran. Darolshafa is a well-known leftist scholar, labor activist, and political prisoner who was first arrested during the Green movement in 2009. Since then he has been jailed multiple times. The reasons for his most recent arrest and his whereabouts remain unknown as of this writing.” Originally authored by Yashar Darolshafa (original Farsi text) and translated by Naghmeh Sohrabi.

“One of the most salient features of protests in Iran since at least 2017 has been their spatial and social shift away from urban middle-class centers toward the socio-economically marginalized locales: urban peripheries, small towns, and ethnic minority provinces. The geography of dissent thus has increasingly converged with the geography of poverty and social exclusion, positioning the working class, women, youth, and ethnically marginalized groups at the forefront of the mobilization.” Authored by Asma Abdi.

This article, authored by Kayhan Valadbaygi, “advances a structural and historical framework for understanding Iran’s crisis-ridden present by tracing two key dynamics that shape it: 1) the neoliberal restructuring of the state and class relations from the early 1990s onward, and 2) the interaction between these domestic transformations and successive waves of sanctions.”

“The time has come to stop prioritizing Western approval, to stop promoting conciliatory frameworks, and to stop treating the strategy of resistance as obsolete. Instead, we must align with the masses in their steadfast fight for liberation.

Translation of a statement by Palestinian and Arab thought leaders, including Ghassan Abu Sittah, Sbeih Sbeih, Wissam Al-Faqaawi, Salah Hammouri, and others.”

”God is not within the theology. God is not within a mosque. God is within our own personal experience, our own journey, our own inner reflections. God is within ourselves. So, if we are looking for God, we have to go inward.” ~Imam Muhsin Hendricks