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Religion Dispatches
Immigration exposes the tension between an idea of citizenship as identity and citizenship as a category of legal belonging.
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ILGA notes that some women in more than 50 countries went on strike on Wednesday’s International Women’s Day: “We demand that our lives and labour be treated with dignity for they form the basis of…
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The Guardian had asked readers for nominations of LGBT rights activists who are making a difference; they’ve now published their LGBT change heroes for 2017. The list includes activists and political…
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Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN independent expert charged with investigating discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity told the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers…
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No wonder Americans are so unhappy—we have made a virtue of denying ourselves integrity in favor of psycho-somatic division.
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February 6 was International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. US-based anti-LGBT activist Brian Brown traveled to Russia to build support for his new International Organization for…
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More and more practitioners have grown weary of being repeatedly told “because God says so, end of discussion” when asking why same-sex relationships are prohibited in Islam.
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The Muslim ban masqueraded as a travel ban dramatizes the perpetual conflict between the essential America and the existential America.
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The irony of his actions lies in the fact that they are exactly what groups like ISIS want: to erase the history of Islam and coexistence in this country.
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Many Muslim American leaders, organizations and institutions are working to broaden the sphere of engagement.
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