Jamil F. Khan

2 days ago | ewn.co.za | Jamil F. Khan

Fear has been struck into the hearts of many queer and transgender Muslims in South Africa. A devastating silencing has befallen a community that has struggled, and continues to struggle, to find spaces of belonging where they can reconcile their gender and sexual identities with their faith practices. For centuries queer and gender diverse people, across the world, have resisted the heteropatriarchy that demands our invisibility and silence in public and private spaces.