Last summer, a close friend/mentor of mine emailed me Muslim feminist and LGTBQI Muslim list of readings, as well as essential books and PDFs for the introduction to developing a woman of color feminist consciousness. I thought that I would share some of my favorite choices from this list, as they have seriously impacted me and helped me understand feminism in a new light. Feel free to reblog and add on other essentials related to these topics :) I haven’t included everything so let me know if you want more!
Homosexuality in Islam by Scott Sirajj Kugle
Beyond Misfortune and Fault: Islam, Same Sex Sexuality, and Liberation by Nadeem Mohamed
Not Your Tragic Queer Muslim Story by Lamya H
Coming Out or Inviting In?: Part II, Darnell L. Moore
The construction of Heteropatriarchal Family and Dissident Sexualities in Turkey by H. Burcu Baba
Thinking Past Pride: Queer Arab Shame in Bareed Mista3Jil by Dina Georgis (Critiques Joseph Massad)
Straight but Narrow: On the Debate about Homosexuality in Islam
Feminism and Womanism Readings
Borderlands: La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua (touches on dual identities, queerness, and Chicana feminist thought)
Poetry is Not a Luxury by Audre Lorde (a short essay on the power of writing poetry as women of color)
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde
Feminism is for Everybody! by bell hooks
This Bridge Called My Back
Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses by Chandra Mohanty
Abu Lughod, Lila. Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
McCloud, Aminah. African American Islam.
Hasso, Frances Susan. “In the Eye of the Storm: Islamic Societies and Muslim Women in Globalization Discourses.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 26, no. 1 (2006): 22—35.
Kahf, Mohja. Western Representaions of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque. 1999.
Quraishi, Asifa, editor. The Islamic Marriage Contract: Case Studies in Islamic Family Law. Cambridge, Mass: Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, 2008.
Chowdhury, Elora Halim, Leila Farsakh, and Rajini Srikanth. “Introduction-Engaging Islam.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 10, no. 4 (2008): 439—454.
Esmeir, Samera. “Conscripts” from Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History
El Guindi, Fadwa. Veil: Modesty, Privacy, and Resistance. Oxford: Berg, 1999.
Fadil, Nadia “Managing Affects and Sensibilities”
Hafez, Sherine. An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
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