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The author tells the story of her aunt’s identity as a bisexual Muslim woman. 

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Samra Habib is a queer Ahmadi Muslim writer, photographer, and activist. Raised in Pakistan, her family moved to Canada when she was a teenager. In 2014, she launched Just Me and Allah (@queermuslimproject), a Tumblr portrait project that visually documents the lives of queer Muslims. She works with LGBTQ organizations internationally, raising awareness of issues that impact queer Muslims around the world. Her memoir, We Have Always Been Here is her first book.

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Samra Habib on joining Unity Mosque, a queer friendly mosque founded by El-Farouk Khaki, an openly gay human rights lawyer and his husband, in We Have Always Been Here.

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I’ve always known I was “different” since my adolescence. In middle school, when everyone was having crushes on boys and passing notes to each other, I started to notice how I didn’t look at boys the same way my friends did. I started to question my sexuality and immediately felt dirty and disgusting as I was taught growing up in a Muslim household that homosexuality is sinful. I also associated queerness with being white so I felt as though I couldn’t possibly be gay which resulted in a decade of internalized homophobia. In high school, I started to learn the vernacular of the LGBTQ+ community and what queerness meant. Once I realized that it’s okay to be both brown AND queer, I decided to come out to my close friends and eventually on social media. However, I am not out to my family as I feel like my safety would be at risk. (Q: How do you bring awareness to youth and elders in your community?) I bring awareness by utilizing social media as a tool to express myself and my identity as being both Bangladeshi and queer. I write about experiences as well as allow other lgbtq+ folks to share their stories in my magazine, Sorjo Magazine, for and by the unconventional. I am also the co-founder of the South Asian Queer & Trans Collective, along with my good friend, Tamanna Yousef. It is a community support group that amplifies the voices of the South Asian LGBTQ+ diaspora. I hope that by being my authentic self, it makes other folks regardless of their age, to be themselves too.

Fabliha Anbar (she/her) in Pride Month: 6 South Asian Creatives Share Their Coming Out Stories and It’s Worth a Read (Brown Girl Magazine)

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Regardless of my sexuality, I will continue identifying as Muslim and defending my community against bigoted assumptions and acts of terror that attempt to demonize Muslims for existing. I wish the LGBTQ+ community spoke out against Islamophobia more frequently and was more inclusive in their representation. I wonder if that would have empowered me to embrace my full identity at a younger age.

Queer Muslim Women Reflect On Navigating Their Faith and Sexuality (via hummussexual)

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Wazina Zondon is a sex educator and co-founder of the show Coming Out Muslim. She’s been able to understand herself better because of her relationship with one person. Hosted by Misha Euceph.Written by Misha Euceph and Arwen Nicks.Edited by Arwen Nicks. Produced by Misha Euceph and Mary Knauf.Sound designed by Misha Euceph. Music by David Linard.Engineering by Shawn Corey Campbell and Valentino Rivera.Illustration by Emmen Ahmed.Graphic Design by Stephanie Kraft.Want a Tell Them, I Am t-shirt? We got you. 

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Kaamila was a co-founder of Queer Muslims of Boston and an organizing force in the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity- which hosts the yearly LGBTQ Muslim retreat.

Kaamila wants to expand the work they’re doing by being able to offer trauma-informed yoga as part of their psychotherapy practice, yoga classes to marginalized and underserved communities, as well as at the LGBTQ Muslim Retreat.

Kaamila has given so much to LGBTQ Muslims, let's give some of that love back in return.

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All T-shirt sales support the Black Trans Prayer Book. T-shirt available in multiple colors with the words "Transphobia Is Haram". 

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A lot of times, it definitely feels like queer muslims are just an abstract concept. It’s so isolating…we should feel more empowered to be ourselves…

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Last year, the Muslim Youth Leadership Council at Advocates for Youth created a sex-ed guide for Muslim Youth that tackles the intersections of faith, sexual orientation, gender identity and so much more based on the lived experiences of MYLC participants.

On the heels of its resounding success, MYLC has created an arabic version of the same guide.

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In times like these, when people don’t understand us and decide that this means we shouldn’t live at all, we need to connect with the people that do understand, even if just a little bit, even if peripherally. Now, more than other, we need each other.