#irshad manji

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"It's up to us in the West to drop reactionary charges of racism against the whistleblowers of Islam and lead the charge for change."

-- Irshad Manji

Break the silence.

[queerafricans]

Queer Africans of South Asian Descent

Dolar Vasani (Uganda)

Irshad Manji (Uganda, Egypt)

Shamim Sharif (South Africa)

Kindness (South Africa)

Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria)

Githan Coopoo (South Africa)

[seventytwoowls]

I don't like the way Irshad Manji talks about transgender people, but I can't tell if it's because she's actually implying that their existence is one of the reasons there's just so much division!!! or if I'm getting defensive because she sounds like my mother

[princestreetco]

#Think | End an angry conflict in 8 minutes | Irshad Manji

[anachrolady]

Don’t Label Me

I love her.  Brava.  This is what I've been trying to communicate on social media, but can't because I'm instantly shot down over it. I wish more people saw the world through her eyes. I wish more people cared to. We would all be better for it.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?458354-2/dont-label-me

[yourdailyqueer]

Irshad Manji

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1968  

Ethnicity: Egyptian, Indian

Occupation: Writer, teacher, activist

Note: Is a Muslim refugee feminist from Uganda

[sendablequotes]

'If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?' -Irshad Manji | Click here for more quotes.

[mayliang17]

Book review: Don’t Label Me by Irshad Manji Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times by Irshad Manji My rating: 4 of 5 stars…

[swanasource]

'I'm very much at peace with being gay and Muslim': Irshad Manji - BBC N...

[faithfulfeminists-blog]

Irshad Manji

Irshad Manji was born in Uganda in 1968. When she was in schooling, she “asked too many questions, and got expelled at 14. Later, studying Islam on [her] own, [she] made a truly surprising discovery: It is possible to reconcile faith with freedom.” In the mid90s, she worked for LGBTQ+ television coverage on multiple platforms. When she was 24, she became the youngest member of any editorial board for a Canadian daily, the Ottawa Citizen. She also worked for the Canadian parliament, the Ontario government, and as a speechwriter for the leader of the New Democratic Party. In 2002, she began writing The Trouble With Islam Today, which she published in 2004. Manji has produced an incredible amount of literature, appeared on innumerable shows, and produced a documentary. 

Manji founded the Moral Courage Project, with an accompanying YouTube channel created with philosopher Cornel West, and she continues to write. Her reformist approach to Islam stresses the importance of gender equality and active engagement. 

Want to know more? Check out: 

The Trouble with Islam Today by Irshad Manji

Allah, Liberty, and Love by Irshad Manji

“Faith Without Fear” (2007) - PBS documentary by Irshad Manji

Irshad Manji’s website: http://www.irshadmanji.com/

Moral Courage TV: https://www.youtube.com/user/MoralCourageChannel

[queerafricans]

Indo-Ugandan-Egyptian-Canadian author and activist Irshad Manji

[greenwire]

ive been gradually becoming more radicalized these days and was wondering if you had any good reading/sources for a baby radfem?? i really respect your writing (esp reading your takes as a woc). you seem to really know your shit

I let this one sit for a little while because it's a responsibility to recommend books. You could very well read those books and I wanted to make sure I chose good ones to start with. But thank you for the compliment!

Firstly just to get it out of the way: https://greenwire.tumblr.com/tagged/books <- a lot of people have put feminist books online as pdf files and I've reblogged some of those under this tag.

If you're really really new to feminism and radical feminism, I recommend reading Why Does He Do That? as a beginning book. It's not feminist but it is about interpersonal abuse. I consider this book really useful for what they used to call 'consciousness raising.' I believe more women and girls have gone through abuse than is widely acknowledged and understanding abusive men is a good first step, even if you ultimately decide radical feminism is not for you.

Right Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin is a good starting point for specifically radical feminist theory. Actually, this book and its author got name-checked in an episode of 1990s sitcom Home Improvement. (The 90s, when a sitcom wife could casually name drop a Dworkin book she was reading to a laugh track about how hypocritical men are.)

If you're more well versed and want more of a background knowledge and understanding of feminism as it relates to black women in the US, I recommend In Search of Our Mother's Gardens and Ain't I A Woman by Alice Walker and bell hooks, respectively. Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, and Andrea Dworkin, were contemporaries and all authored articles with Ms. Magazine.

Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality, and has written many books on the topic, but she is a lawyer and academic and her writing reflects that. Crenshaw cites the work of Alice Walker in her 1989 work that coined the term intersectional theory. If you're interested in feminism as it applies to the legal sector, Crenshaw and MacKinnon would be two names to start with tho.

If you like fiction and are okay with depictions of child abuse, The Color Purple by Walker and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, are good ways to get into their writing without it being theory.

If you're a scientist, or have a STEM background, I recommend Delusions of Gender and Invisible Women. If you're interested in feminist psychology, Loving To Survive is a good, but dense, read.

Some Islam-critical authors that I can recommend would come from Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji. I think Reza Aslan also writes much more liberal-tolerated books about Islamic Reformation and has not been accused of 'hatred' so much, but I wouldn't call any of his books feminist. Hitchens and Dawkins also have Islam critical books, but they come from an atheist point of view and it isn't about male violence or entitlement.

There's not an exact syllabus for being a radical feminist, and books that grab you, vs books that don't, are very individual. Hopefully these are solid recommendations that help you out.

Why Does He Do That?

Right Wing Women

Invisible Women

In Search Of Our Mothers Gardens: Womanist Prose

Ain’t I A Woman

nb: I use zamzar to convert epub to pdf. Chrome and Firefox can open pdf files but epub I think is for kindle or something.

[butterfly-storms]

I bought this book three different times. Twice I loaned this book to two different friends. And twice I never got it back. At the time I bought the book it had immediately stirred up immense controversy. Conservative Muslim groups issued multiple death threats against Irshad Manji. For one, they said she was lambasting Islam. That she spoke against the Prophet and was by extension a heretic. Others dismissed her analysis saying she is a lesbian and already inept to make any discernible observations about faith and propriety.

To me, this book pulled a mainstream religion out of the hands of ‘experts’ and into the hands of the growing thinker. Manji encouraged a robust manner of assessing Islam. She asks the reader to think critically about what religion’s teachers preach, and to step away from reciting religious regurjetations whose meaning we do not understand.

[anachrolady]

Irshad Manji

Don’t Label Me

[yourdailyqueer]

Indian queer people

I’m adding a lot more Indian folk to drafts right now, but for those who have missed out - here are the queer Indian people added to this blog already:

I’m trying to find more Indian trans men.

Total: 69

Manabi Bandyopadhyay - Trans woman

Gopi Shankar Madurai - Non binary & Intersex

Grace Tandon (Daya) - Bisexual

AzMarie Livingston - Non binary lesbian Hoshang Merchant - Gay

Shiva Raichandani - Non binary

Kalki Subramaniam - Trans woman

Rajee Narinesingh - Trans woman

Elena Genevinne - Trans woman

Nakshatra Bagwe - Gay

Riyad Vinci Wadia - Gay

Alok Vaid-Menon - Non binary

Sushant Divgikar - Gay

Wendell Rodricks - Gay

Rose Venkatesan - Trans woman

Freddie Mercury - Bisexual

Shaleen Rakesh - Gay

Apsara Reddy - Trans woman

Parvez Sharma - Gay

Gazal Dhaliwal - Trans woman 

Shals Mahajan - Non binary

Sumathi Murthy - Queer

Dr Ranj Singh - Gay

Agniva Lahiri - Third gender 

Madhu Kinnar - Trans woman

Vasu Primlani - Lesbian

Shonali Bose - Bisexual

Vivek Shraya - Trans woman

Jessica Clark - Lesbian

Urvashi Vaid - Lesbian

Radhika Vaz - Lesbian

Rupert Raj - Trans man

Harish Iyer - Gay

Karpaga - Trans woman

K. Prithika Yashini - Trans woman

Adam Bainbridge - Non binary

Ashok Row Kavi - Gay

Nergis Mavalvala  - Lesbian

Sushant Divgikar - Gay

Bobby Darling - Trans woman

Firdaus Kanga - Gay

Jameela Jamil - Queer

Gregory Gray - Gay

Tharika Banu - Trans woman

Apurva Asrani - Gay

Nitasha Biswas - Trans woman

Waris Hussein - Gay

Aneesh Sheth - Trans woman

Dutee Chand - Lesbian

Ayesha Kapur - Queer

Farzana Doctor - Lesbian

Nisha Ganatra - Lesbian

Pragati Singh - Gray Asexual 

Rohit Khosla - Bisexual

Sunny Leone - Bisexual

Navtej Johar - Gay

Naaz Joshi - Trans woman 

Irshad Manji - Lesbian

Karan Johar - Gay

Rahul Mehta - Gay

Vikas Gupta - Bisexual

Grace Banu - Trans woman

Lilly Singh - Bisexual

S. Swapna - Trans woman

R. Raj Rao - Gay

Tamal Ray - Gay

Tista Das - Trans woman

VJ Andy - Gay

Lakshmi - Third gender

[gnatswatting]

• When we let labels stand in for people, we end up manipulating people. Our shared humanity, along with our distinctive individuality, loses out. —Irshad Manji

Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times