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The Queer Muslim Project – An interview with its founder Rafiul Alom Rahman
June 2018
Rafiul Alom Rahman is the founder of The Queer Muslim Project (2017) of the Delhi University Queer Collective (2014). In an interview with Avali and Arunima from The YP Foundation, he talks about the challenges of organising around queer issues and politics within university spaces. He discusses the problem of non-recognition by university officials and the difficulty of having a space to hold discussions. He also reflected upon the queer movement in India where due to its restriction to urban spaces, it becomes representative of people with certain privilege, creating a wall. However, he is happy about the intersections that are coming up and demanding inclusion, for instance, Dalit queer rights. Rafiul also talked at length about the importance of The Queer Muslim Project – not only in the lives of Muslim-queers, but also in the larger socio-political context of the country.