#Rafiul Alom Rahman

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Rafiul Alom Rahman

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Indian

Occupation: Activist, entrepreneur

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Follow these voices in the LGBTQIA+ spaces to understand the community better

Follow these voices in the LGBTQIA+ spaces to understand the community better

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As we approach the second anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality on September 6, 2018, we put together a list of emerging voices in the LGBTQIA+ spaces. Follow their work, to understand the community better

Kalki Subramaniam

Artist, Coimbatore

Identifies as she/her

Follow for: Empowering art by transgender women and men

For transgender rights activist, artist, and poet…

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Religion and sexuality is a junction not many can navigate with ease: Rafiul Alom Rahman https://t.co/QiEo8R0Asz

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LGBTQIA+ influencers you can follow to understand the community better

LGBTQIA+ influencers you can follow to understand the community better

As we approach the second anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality on September 6, 2018, we put together a list of emerging voices in the LGBTQIA+ spaces. Follow their work, to understand the community better

Kalki Subramaniam

Artist, Coimbatore

Identifies as she/her

Follow for: Empowering art by transgender women and men

For transgender rights activist, artist, and poet Kalki…

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Sri Lanka urged not to violate fundamental rights in the name of combating terror

We the undersigned, who are from and live in the various nation-states of South Asia, express our deepest condolences to all those who have lost loved ones in the serial bomb blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. We express our solidarity with those working tirelessly to address the needs of the injured in the aftermath of this carnage and to sustain interfaith and community relationships. While we support all justice efforts that seek to hold the perpetrators of violence accountable, we also urge the Government of Sri Lanka to ensure that, in the name of combating terror and ensuring national security, fundamental human rights and dignity of all concerned are not violated.

We say this because in all our countries, investigations into terror and anti-terror legislation have been accompanied by consistent and continuing violation of civil and democratic rights. Furthermore, in the name of ensuring national security, successive governments in the region have sought to legitimise their various acts of impunity – directed against not only purported or possible suspects but entire sections of the civilian population. This has led to unaccountable loss of life and a steady erosion of democratic guarantees and institutions, including unaccounted for deaths and disappearances. We note with concern that media reports and remarks by state officials and political leaders in Sri Lanka have pointed to State inaction with respect to warnings by intelligence agencies about possible acts of terror. Such inaction and indifference, we regret to note, amounts to State complicity with the violence that subsequently unfolded.We are also concerned that the ‘owning up’ to these acts by the so-called ‘Islamic State’ (Daesh) might encourage Islamophobic attitudes and expressions, both on the part of the Sri Lankan Government and sections of civil society. Should this happen, Sri Lanka would be tragically drawn in to a familiar international discourse and practice to do with ‘Islamic terror’ with all the resultant tragedies, as we have witnessed across Asia. In a country that has barely recovered from decades of civil mistrust, war and violence, this cannot bode well for its sovereignty, civil peace and economic and social life. We wish to point out that the so-called war on ‘Islamic terror’ has resulted in large numbers of the Islamic faith being persecuted, both in their countries and across the world – and this sadly only enhances the appeal of those who seek to wage war in the name of Islam and what they perceive as Islamic concerns and interests. Thus is set in motion a cycle of violence that benefits no one but the arms trade and industries, and political powers that seek to establish their hegemony in the region at all costs. In this context: nWe support all struggles to ensure transparent and fair pursuit of justice for the victims of the blast. At the same time, we stand with those who are against undemocratic anti-terror laws in Sri Lanka, even if they are purportedly deployed for purposes of investigation and national security. nWe protest attempts to target or persecute those of the Islamic faith, in the name of countering terror, whether by the state or vigilante groups. nWe support Muslim communities in the region that have called for peace and are critical of voices from within that endorse extremist religious positions, which polarise everyday life and interactions, and vitiate meaningful dissent and dialogue. nWe affirm the resilience of diverse cultural and religious traditions in the region that have fostered longstanding habits of mutuality, trust and co-existence. We do not wish for the specificity of local beliefs and traditions, of all faiths, to be drawn into polarising global discourses of religious ‘unity’ and ‘singularity’ imposed from above. List of signatories: Afghanistan Massihullah, Kabul Afghanistan Sima Samar, Afghanistan Nepal Anju Kandel, Nepal Deepa Gurung, Nepal Hari Sharma, Kathmandu, Nepal Kaalo.101, Nepal Kanak Mani Dixit, Kathmandu Kunda Dixit, Kathmandu, Nepal NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Kathmandu, Nepal Niranjan Kunwar, Kathmandu, Nepal Sarita K.C, Nepal India Mangai, India Abha Bhaiya, India Abirami Jotheeswaran, India Amar Kanwar, New Delhi, India Anuradha Bhasin, Kashmir Times, India Anuradha Kapoor, India Arundathi V, India Ashish kumar Dey, India Bindu Doddahatti, India Deepti Sharma, New Delhi, India Dia Da Costa, India Dipta Bhog, India Farida Khan, India Forum Against Oppression of Women, India Geetha V, India Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, India Indu Vashist, India/Canada Iram Saeed, India Jinee Lokaneeta, India/USA K, Lalita, India Kamla Bhasin, India Khalida Saleem, India Madhu Mehra, India Mamta Singh, Women Right Activist, India Mary John, India Maya Sharma Vikalp (Women’s Group), India Meena Gopal, India Meera Velayudhan, India Mohan Rao, India Mrinalini R, India Nandini Manjrekar, India Nandita Shah, India Nastasia Paul Gera, India Neelanjana Mukhia, India Neeraj Malik, India Nupur Basu, India Pam Philipose, India Panchali Ray, New Delhi, India Ponni Arasu, India Poonam Batra, India Prathama Raghavan, Hyderabad, India Rafiul Alom Rahman, India Ramakant Agnohotri, India Rita Manchanda, India Ritu Dewan, India Ritu Menon, India Roshmi Goswami, India Sabeena Gadihoke, India Sahba Hussain, India Saheli Women’s Resource Centre, New Delhi, India Sameera Iyengar, India Sara Abraham, India Shohini Ghosh, India Shrimoyee N, Ghosh, India Snigdha Chakraborty, India Sujata Patel, India Svati Shah, India/USA Swarna Rajagopalan, India Tanvi Mishra, New Delhi, India The Queer Muslim Project, India Uma Chakravarty, India Vanita Nayak Mukherjee, India Veena Shatrughna, India Mamatha Karollil, India Afshana Bano, India Supriya Madangarli, India Pakistan Abeera Tanveer, Pakistan Ailya Khan, Pakistan Ajwah Nadeem, Pakistan Aminah Waheed Chaudhry, Pakistan Ammar Ali Jan, Pakistan Amna Durrani, Pakistan Amna Iqbal, Pakistan Amna Mawaz, Pakistan Anis Haroon, Pakistan Anoosha Shaigan, Pakistan Arooj Aurangzeb, Pakistan Asma Malik, Pakistan Awami Workers Party, Punjab Ayra Indrias, Pakistan Baila Anjum, Lahore, Pakistan Basmina, Pakistan-Afghan Border Beena Sarwar, Pakistan Beenish Muhammad Ali, Pakistan Bonnie Mende Candas Anjum, Pakistan Qasim Iqbal, NAZ Pakistan Faiz Younas, Pakistan Farida Batool, Pakistan Farida Shaheed, Pakistan Fatema Bhaiji, Pakistan Fatima A. Athar, Pakistan Fatima Butt, Pakistan FemSoc at LUMS, Pakistan Feroza Batool, Pakistan Fiza Khatri, Pakistan Furhan Hussain, Pakistan Ghausia Rashid Salam, Pakistan Ghazala Anwar, Pakistan Gwendolyn S. Kirk, USA/Pakistan Hadi Hussain, Pakistan Hameeda Hossain, Pakistan Have Only Positive Expectations – HOPE, Pakistan Hiba Akbar, Pakistan Hira Mohmand, Pakistan-Afghan Border Huma Fouladi, Pakistan Huma Majeed, Pakistan Humraz society, Karachi, Pakistan Jamaima Afridi, Pakistan-Afghan Border Jawad Anwar, Pakistan Kashmala Dilawar, Pakistan-Afghan Border Khawar Mumtaz, Pakistan Khushbakht Memon, Pakistan Kishwar Sultana, Pakistan Kyla Pasha, Pakistan Lubna Chaudhry Madiha Latif, Pakistan Maheen Asif Khan, Pakistan Malik Moeed, Pakistan Manal Yousuf, Pakistan Mani AQ, Pakistan Maria Rashid, Pakistan Maryam Hussain, Pakistan Maryum Orakzai, Pakistan-Afghan Border Masooma Fatima, Pakistan Mehlab Jameel, Pakistan Melanie D’souza, Pakistan Momina Jahan, Pakistan Momina Pasha, Pakistan Muaaz Ali, Pakistan Naazish Ata-Ullah, Pakistan Nabiha Meher Shaikh, Pakistan Nageen Hyat, Pakistan Naheed Aziz, Pakistan Naila Naz, Pakistan Nasim Begum, Pakistan-Afghan Border Nasreen Rahman, Pakistan Neelam Hussain, Pakistan Nighat Dad, Pakistan Nighat Said Khan, Pakistan Nimra Akram, Pakistan Noreen Naseer Pakistan O Collective, Pakistan Omer Arshad, Pakistan Outcast Magazine, Pakistan Palvashay Sethi, Pakistan Queer Karachi, Pakistan Quratulain Faraz, Pakistan Rafia Asim, Pakistan Rahma Muhammad Mian, Karachi Roohi Khan, Pakistan Rubina Saigol, Pakistan Rukhsana Rashid, Pakistan Saadia Haq, Pakistan Saadia Toor, USA/Pakistan Saba Gul Khattak, Pakistan-Afghan Border Sabeen Andleeb, Pakistan Sadaf Aziz, Pakistan Sadia Afridi, Pakistan-Afghan Border Sadia Khatri, Karachi, Pakistan Saima Jasam, Pakistan Saima Munir, Pakistan Saleha Rauf, Pakistan Saman Rizvi, Pakistan Samavia Malik, Pakistan Samina Orakzai, Pakistan Samina Orakzai, Pakistan-Afghan Border Sana Naeem, Pakistan Sarah Humayun, Pakistan Sarah Suhail, Pakistan Sarah Zaman, Pakistan Sehrish Tariq, Pakistan Shafeeq Gigyani, Peshawar Pakistan Shagufta Rehmat, Pakistan Shazia Shaheen, Pakistan Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre, Pakistan Shmyla Khan, Pakistan Shumaila Kausar, Pakistan Shumaila Shahani, Pakistan Syed Raza Haider, Pakistan Tabitha Spence, Pakistan Tahira Kaleem, Peshawar, Pakistan Tehreem Azeem, Pakistan The Enlight Lab, Pakistan Wafa Asher, Pakistan Women’s Action Forum, Pakistan Yusra, Pakistan-Afghan Border Zahra Durrani, Pakistan Zakia Majid, Pakistan Zeenat Afridi, Pakistan – Afghan Border Zeenia Shaukat, Pakistan Zehra Keshf, Pakistan Ambreen Ahmad, Pakistan Bangladesh Amena Mohsin, Dhaka Bangladesh Anusheh Anadil, Dhaka, Bangladesh Arup Rahee, Dhaka, Bangladesh Adilur Rahman Khan, Dhaka, Bangladesh Dr Asif Nazrul, Dhaka, Bangladesh Dr Hameeda Hossain, Dhaka, Bangladesh Dr Ridwanul Hoque, Dhaka, Bangladesh Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, Dhaka, Bangladesh Faustina Pereira, Dhaka, Bangladesh Shahidul Alam, Dhaka, Bangladesh Shahnaz Huda, Dhaka, Bangladesh Fahmidul Haq, Dhaka, Bangladesh Firdous Azim, Dhaka, Bangladesh Galiba Rabbani, Bangladesh Gitiara Nasreen, Dhaka, Bangladesh Hana Shams Ahmed, Bangladesh/Canada Inclusive Bangladesh, Bangladesh Khushi Kabir, Bangladesh Nur Khan, Dhaka, Bangladesh Meghna Guhathakurta, Dhaka, Bangladesh Mirza Taslima Sultana, Dhaka, Bangladesh Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan, Dhaka, Bangladesh Mohammed Iqbal Hossaion, Bangladesh Monika Biswas, Bangladesh Perween Hasan, Dhaka, Bangladesh Rahnuma Ahmed, Dhaka, Bangladesh Reetu Sattar, Dhaka, Bangladesh Rezaur Rahman Lenin, Dhaka, Bangladesh Rina Roy, Dhaka, Bangladesh Selima Sara Kabir, Bangladesh Shaheen Anam, Bangladesh Shamsul Huda, Bangladesh Sharnila Nuzhat Kabir, Bangladesh Shireen P Huq, Dhaka, Bangladesh Sultana Kamal, Dhaka, Bangladesh Zareen Mahmud Hosein, Bangladesh Others Aurangzaib Alizai, Thailand Kumkum Dey, New Jersey Rumah Pelangi Indonesia

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Instagram announces a ton of new special features to support the LGBTQIA+ community during Pride Month

Instagram has today announced a slew of new features on for its platform to support the LGBTQIA+ community/communities during the auspicious Pride Month. The new features, along with a well-being guide, have been developed in association with @thequeermuslimproject, a community that  advocates for equal rights for the queer communit.

First and foremost, the company is bringing some colour to its hashtags. “We partnered with GLAAD to identify prominent, popular, and important hashtags used throughout the LGBTQIA+ community. When used in a Feed post, these hashtags will be displayed in a rainbow gradient.  Some examples include #lgbtq, #bornperfect, #equalitymatters, #accelerateacceptance, or #pride2020,” the announcement from the company read.

Next, your stories are about to be lightened up by Instagram’s newest rainbow gradient experience which has been extended to both Stories and Feed. “When used in a story, the GLAAD-identified hashtags will turn your Story ring rainbow gradient while the Story is live for 24 hours. This will roll out in a few days. ”

Prepare to express yourself in a manner never seen before, with the addition of stickers catered specifically to promote equality for the LGTBQIA+ community. “In partnership with Instagram creators, we’ve expanded our Pride sticker pack to include new stickers that highlight the LGBTQIA+ community. ”

Last but not least is the ‘Pride themed AR effect’. “For the first time ever, Instagram will be releasing a new Pride-themed AR effect including 12 LGBTQIA+ flag gradients that celebrate identities across the gender and sexuality spectrums. This initiative is the first of many to help honor the ever evolving LGBTQIA+ community.”

All of these new features are aimed to celebrate and support the LGBTQIA+ community during this month of Pride. Tara Bedi, Public Policy and Community Outreach Manager, Instagram, India, “We understand the challenges and diversity of emotions that the LGBTQIA+ community faces everyday, and want our platforms to be safe spaces for them to express themselves. Especially during COVID-19, we want to help the community celebrate virtually, find support online, and stay connected with the people they love. We are thankful for the partnership with @thequeermuslimproject for their insights that helped make the well-being guide and hope everyone shows support with our newly released features.”

The Queer Muslim Project has used visual art and storytelling to promote sex-positive, affirming and intersectional representations of the communities. Rafiul Alom Rahman, founder of  @thequeermuslimproject, said, “The pandemic has created mental health challenges for the youth at large, but doubly so for the queer community due to the stigmas attached with their identity. Expressing themselves, but being safe online is the need of the hour and so we are excited to collaborate with Instagram, for this wellbeing guide.” 

With coronavirus coming in the way of physical rallies, social media is the only place to organise a celebration, and Instagram is doing its part to promote the cause.

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