Registration is closed for this offering.

Instructor: Polo (BA Linguistics and Philosophy, MEd Adult Education)

Course description: English is a strange language born from more than a thousand years of cultural power struggles. As the world’s lingua franca, it has taken a place of dominance in the world, absorbing or destroying entire languages in its colonial wake. Despite that, it has also been (and continues to be) a tool for resistance and radical change. Join this discussion and deepen your knowledge of both the good and the bad of the English language. 

Course time/dates: 7:00 - 8:30pm (Eastern Time Zone), online on Zoom, Thursdays, September 11th - December 4th (No class on October 23rd)

The course fee is 195~250USD, based on a sliding scale of what you can afford. If you require further financial accommodation, please reach out to us.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THIS OFFERING

Time/Date: 6:30 - 8:00pm, Mondays, Aug 4th - Oct 27th. No class on Sep 1st.

Course fee: 195~250USD (sliding scale, pay what you can)

Instructor: Dr. Sulayman (Professor of Religion, PhD in Anthropology)

• Are you aware that there is a rigorous debate among Muslim scholars over gender and sexuality that goes back centuries?

• Do you know that non-binary and non-cisgendered ways of being have existed in all Muslim societies, from Arabia to Persia to Southeast Asia?

• Are you curious about transgender and queer Muslims and the canonical textual sources they cite and the organizations they have established around the world?

• Do you want to arm yourself with robust knowledge to combat Islamophobia, Orientalism, and rainbow-washing/pinkwashing that are being deployed to justify the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine?

This course will draw on primary sources, historiographical work, and ethnographies of Islam. We will read Muslim scholarly views of gender and sexuality against key texts in Western feminism. We will identify the key issues at stake, and how these issues have been addressed. We will also explore the intersection of religion, race, and gender, and ask to what extent what we learn in this class can speak to the fight for the liberation of Palestine and the collective freedom of us all.