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.