Tag Archives: islam

My Islam is Queer

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Laura (ace-muslim)

This post is for the May Carnival of Aces. I first became fascinated by Islam in the summer of 1994. I remember spending many afternoons in the university bookstore, lurking by the Religion shelves, at one point poring over English … Continue reading →

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Not queer enough, not Muslim enough

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Laura (ace-muslim)

Recently, I wrote about burnout, from writing in general and from writing about asexuality for Muslims in particular. In that post, I talked about the lack of any real asexual Muslim community or even an active group of bloggers other … Continue reading →

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Asexuality, Writing, and Burnout

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Laura (ace-muslim)

A year ago, I wrote a post announcing that I wanted to make 2015 The Year of Writing about Asexuality for Muslims. Over the course of the following nine months, I wrote ten essays for Muslim sites about asexuality, as … Continue reading →

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The Year of Writing about Asexuality for Muslims

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Laura (ace-muslim)

This post is for the March Carnival of Aces. I created a Tumblr blog in June 2012 and began writing long-form original posts soon thereafter, mostly for the Carnival of Aces. In March 2014, I began writing on asexuality and … Continue reading →

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Carving out a space for myself

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Laura (ace-muslim)

This post is for the February Carnival of Aces. About a year ago, I wrote a post on Tumblr called Caught Between Worlds about feeling caught between asexual and Muslim communities. I reflected that I felt I couldn’t really talk … Continue reading →

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Creating an asexual jurisprudence in Islam

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Laura (ace-muslim)

This post is for the October Carnival of Aces, whose topic is religion and asexuality. It took me awhile to decide what to write about for this Carnival. Not because I don’t know what I want to say, but because … Continue reading →

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Hijab as “Leave me alone; I’m not interested”

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Laura (ace-muslim)

The thought of someone else finding me sexy? That made me more uncomfortable, and in retrospect I think it was because now I was being asked, in an abstract sense, to picture myself actually in a sexual situation. If I’m … Continue reading →

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Reconciling Asexuality with Belonging to a Muslim Community

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Laura (ace-muslim)

Over a series of recent posts on Tumblr, I analyzed how Muslim scholars have constructed a sex-normative discourse around marriage in Islam, argued that the consequences of this discourse can be profoundly harmful to asexual Muslims who are unable to … Continue reading →

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Sex-Normativity in Islamic Discourse and the Queerness of Asexuality

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Laura (ace-muslim)

In my Tumblr post, Islam, Patriarchy, and the Recalcitrant Asexual Wife, I analyzed orthodox Islamic discourses on marriage and how they may impact asexual Muslims who are seeking to get married but who do not wish to or who are … Continue reading →

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On being visibly Muslim and invisibly asexual (with apologies to Queenie)

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Laura (ace-muslim)

What does an asexual look like? The easy answer is that an asexual can look like anything, since any type of person may be asexual. Yet the images that mainstream Western society imputes to members of certain groups may tend … Continue reading →

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