"I am familiar, too, with the feeling that to criticise my people or even my family for their homophobia, sexism, insert-flaw-here etc., is too dangerous or unfair, given the persecution and prejudice they face in a State hostile to their existence… and it hasn’t stopped me from doing so. Silence is always a false choice; it resigns you either to stasis or death. I refuse to accept being diminished, and likewise I refuse the diminishment of my people—love is an active presence, a willingness to see the totality without passively accepting such, but with an intention and effort to move always toward a better, kinder, more just version of yourself and your community."
i feel like this is the choice every queer muslim/migrant is unfairly asked to make all the time. thank you for articulating it so well, and for continuing to speak truth to fascism and apartheid.
"I am familiar, too, with the feeling that to criticise my people or even my family for their homophobia, sexism, insert-flaw-here etc., is too dangerous or unfair, given the persecution and prejudice they face in a State hostile to their existence… and it hasn’t stopped me from doing so. Silence is always a false choice; it resigns you either to stasis or death. I refuse to accept being diminished, and likewise I refuse the diminishment of my people—love is an active presence, a willingness to see the totality without passively accepting such, but with an intention and effort to move always toward a better, kinder, more just version of yourself and your community."
i feel like this is the choice every queer muslim/migrant is unfairly asked to make all the time. thank you for articulating it so well, and for continuing to speak truth to fascism and apartheid.