2016 Was the Year Queer and Trans Muslims Entered the Public Consciousness: Mahdia Lynn On This New Era
The following is an exclusive excerpt from Kaleidoscope, a podcast featuring conversations on religion with…
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Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap
Costa Rican human rights and anti-torture activist Victor Madrigal-Borloz is the new UN Independent Expert…
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Leave Your Stereotypes at the Door: 10Q on “Keeping it Halal”
What inspired you to write Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys?…
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Occultism and New Age Take Off in Iran: An Interview with Alireza Doostdar
RD: What inspired you to write The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny?…
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Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap
Reports from several international LGBT gatherings: The Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa (IDNOWA), founded…
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Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap
Taken together, several articles published this week challenge populist portrayals of the “homophobic Muslim” as…
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The “Religion” Episode: Aziz Ansari and the Cultural Politics of Muslim Self-Representation
To call Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series Master of None “peak TV” is not to do…
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New Study: Islamophobia Common in Catholic Media
With Catholic commentators writing about the “threat” of Islam, it’s no surprise many U.S. Catholics have negative views of Muslims
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No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”
Yesterday, after the ISIS attack on Teheran, this astonishing paragraph appeared in a CNN article:…
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The suicide attack by Salman Abedi outside the Manchester arena that killed 22 young people…
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