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Articles tagged as "Homophobia"

The Power of Kenyan, Christian, Queer Imagination

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Adriaan van Klinken
October 28, 2021January 27, 2024

The arts have an ability to explore the potential of religion to contribute to a progressive, critical, and innovative vision for society, and thus to inspire social transformation.

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Reading Religion and Queerness in Postcolonial Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Mujahid Osman
October 19, 2021February 1, 2024

Religion can be viewed not only as a site of oppression for queer bodies, but also as a source of meaning-making and liberation.

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The Margins of “Queer Arts of Resistance” in Sub-Saharan Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Ludovic Lado
October 12, 2021January 27, 2024

Van Klinken’s major contribution to the debate is indeed his focus on the use of religiously inspired arguments to challenge homophobia.

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Love Bites

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Ebenezer Obadare
September 28, 2021January 27, 2024

Van Klinken’s book is an astounding ero-ethnography in which the author grapples with the question of the research field as a site of desire and vulnerability.

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Introduction to Symposium on Kenyan, Christian, Queer

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Joshua S. Lupo
September 28, 2021January 25, 2024

Van Klinken and this symposium’s contributors open up new spaces for imagining the emancipatory possibilities that come with attending to queer religious life in Kenya and beyond.

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They Say “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” Look, We Are All over Palestine

Series: Decoloniality in Practice
Halah Abdelhadi
February 3, 2021January 25, 2024

Tackling the homophobic deployment of religion requires using theological tools that expand interpretations of religious meanings and orients them to the suffering of queer communities.

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Fear and Mourning in the Shadow of Orlando

Series: Intersecting Phobias
Michael Vicente Perez
December 22, 2016February 1, 2024

The temporary inclusion of LGBTQ subjects in the national body involved the exclusion of Muslims through the discourse of the war on terror. Read the full article »

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Two American Fears: Islamophobia and Homophobia

Series: Intersecting Phobias
Ali Altaf Mian
December 14, 2016January 27, 2024

This moment presents both difficulties and opportunities for analyzing the intersections of Islamophobia and homophobia. By historicizing the emergence of each, we gain analytical clarity about the complex negotiations of identity, never static but always becoming.

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