Review of We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Habib is a queer Muslim, although she’s struggled to come to terms with both aspects of her identity. Her memoir is all about her journey toward embracing both.
Call for Submissions
Co-editors Jen Deerinwater and Jera Brown are seeking nonfiction pieces for book-length anthology. Sacred and Subversive will be published in print
Writer’s Guidelines
Guidelines for submissions to this site
Poem: The Disassociation of the Flesh
THE DISASSOCIATION OF THE FLESH He’s a tad late. That’s him in the sunglasses. I don’t know what he puts
The Future of the Mormon Church & Meaning After Belief
Johnny Townsend has published 34 books, almost all of them on the subject of gay and feminist Mormons. Six of his
Pagan inclusivity and consent
Interview with Wiccan author Yvonne Aburrow about inclusive Pagan communities and Pagan consent culture.
Queer, trans, and deacon: a reflection on being commissioned
I’ll be wearing my clergy collar after today – a lot. On most days, in fact. For sure there is a small element of “it’s been such a long, hard road, you better believe I’m gonna wear a collar.” But more so, its that being a deacon is embedded in my sense of self and identity. I have always been called to the intersections of church and society, to queer that bifurcation through word, service, compassion, and justice.
Islamophobia and the Queer Community
We, sans our Muslims, do not know how to treat and be welcoming to Muslims. This is due to a combination of cultural norms and entrenched structures around expected whiteness in the queer community and the expectation that faith is not a part of our identity.
What I’ve Learned from Jesus and the Lepers
In those dark years when I was trying to disengage from the task of destroying myself and/or enabling HIV to do it for me, I often reminded myself that Jesus had healed lepers.
An AntiCreed: Against Christian Supremacy
Christian supremacy : The belief that Christian people and Christian ideas are superior to people and ideas from all other religious, spiritual, and/or non-religious backgrounds, and thus Christian people and ideas should dominate society.
Fluid
She burns that high spot
in your stomach
and you double over clutching
grasping for any sense of reality
because surely
This is not yours.
Decolonization and Alienation: Why I Find My Peers’ Politics Unrelatable
It was through exploring Western culture — in person, through media, getting to know people — that I found more representations of people like me, people who would accept me, people whose experiences I can relate to.
Sacred and Subversive 