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2004-05-02 12:03:25 UTC
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To : "Faisal" <***@aol.com>
Subject : Muslim Women - Call For Submissions
Sent : 01 May 2004 09:52:14
Dear friends
Please help distribute this call for an anthology to whatever listserve you
and your friends might belong. Please post away...
Sarah
Muslim Women Redefine WAR
This anthology seeks to redefine the stereotypical definitions of "Muslim"
women that over flow Western discourses on the Islamic Other. The veil,
seemingly the age-old symbol of our repression and the archetypical
rationale for our rescuing by the west, has become a transparent symbol of
Islamic "barbarity." In this anthology we seek to move beyond such sterile
representations and narrow debates, calling for work that engages the
complexity that make up "Muslim" women's contemporary realities. We seek to
construct a multiple-voiced text and many-sided vision of our lives as
"Muslim" women by forging ourselves into new creative collectivities. In
this process the category "Muslim" must be rendered anew through our own
politics and cultural practices and such a rendering must reflect the many
valences of our multiple histories because we come from all parts of the
"Muslim" world-whether we are from Saudi Arabia, Britain, Indonesia, Sudan
or Black Muslims in the United States. Through this anthology we seek to
build coalitions among "Muslim" women, broadening the definitions of "war,"
and giving voice to the multiplicities of our lives. The reason why we have
put "Muslim" in quotes throughout this call is to move away from those
tendencies that seek to reduce us to monological stereotypes and to define
us in one homogeneous way.
This anthology encourages submissions that might subvert these stereotypes,
claim them and move beyond them or perhaps simply ignore them. Through
poetry, prose and photography we wish to express the multiple voices that
move within us and in our communities, voices that trouble the dominant
generalizations. Submissions should speak of war broadly but of struggles
specifically and redefine war and warring, from our bodies to the so-called
war against terrorism, from the war against hetronormativity in our homes to
the construction of the nation, from the war for control over our sexuality
to the war against cancer.
For ages it seems we have been torn between two empires, one that claimed
our freedom in rapacious capitalism and another that claimed to breaks these
bounds by divesting us of our cultures. Both were caught in a shadow dance
of proliferating arms. Now with the end of this so-called Cold War, the
nuclear race over and bombs under every pillow we are at the beginning of
another divide. Today, the US and its military is seeking to impose a (new)
world (dis)order creating new dictionaries of control, defining, normalizing
which person and populations, which nation and which culture can enter the
theater of "civilization." Sometimes this is simply a matter of which look
matches this weeks terrorist. Can we really believe what they claim
constitutes a threat when people are being held captive without due process,
unjustly profiled and targeted and carpet bombed, from immigrant ghettoes of
the US to Camp X-ray at Guantanamo Bay, from Palestine to Iraq, to
Afghanistan, to Kashmir? We are living in a period where violence is the
rule of the day, where states sponsor and legitimizing violence seeking to
control populations, to define a "just" death and to monopolize the right to
kill.
As our lives become targets of manufactured "truths", and the real questions
hidden behind corporate media sound bytes, Islam becomes the new demon to be
exorcized. While corporate radars drain our economic and natural resources,
and war lord militias backed by the US confiscate our lands, our cultures
are "occidentalized"; the Pentagon has co-opted The Battle of Algiers. It
becomes even more urgent to open our selves to the multiple forms of
struggles-to the many becomings that our survival demands. As "Muslim" women
we are at the forefront of struggles and war all over the globe. We are
targets of hate crimes in the US, we are also suicide bombers in Palestine,
"Muslim" women are taking up arms and throwing their bodies against military
machines while offering their sons, brothers, husbands, fathers and friends
to.
Through poetry, prose and photography this anthology seeks to bring together
the experiences, dreams, nightmares and views of "Muslim" women in their
daily struggle in and against wars throughout the world. As the war against
"terrorism" unfolds, we seek submissions that address the every day of
"Muslim" women's lives and that reconnect our resistances, spirituality and
religion, and our memory, loss, violence, sexuality and love. Issues such as
but not limited to:
Muslim Women and the Nation
Terrorism
Counter terrorism
Muslim women and the Nuclear Bomb or WMD
Muslim women and women of colour
Building Coalitions
The war in Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Nepal, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Middle East, New York City,
Indonesia, Algeria, Sudan, etc. etc.
Hate crimes
Queer Muslim women and their struggles and wars
The border the body and the Muslim nation
Motherhood and war
Pregnancy and War
Military Tribunals
INS detention and deportations
The construction of the wall in Palestine
India Pakistan border
Nightmares and September 11th
The Gulf War
Media and Muslim women
Organizing and Muslim women
The veil and liberation
The Quran and war and women
Muslim women and health
Reproductive rights to the fight for better health care/facilities
Cancer and Muslim women
Submission deadline: November 15th, 2004
Please send submissions to:
Sarah Husain
Email: ***@comcast.net
1115 Lasswade Dr.
Tallahassee, FL 32312, USA
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To : "Faisal" <***@aol.com>
Subject : Muslim Women - Call For Submissions
Sent : 01 May 2004 09:52:14
Dear friends
Please help distribute this call for an anthology to whatever listserve you
and your friends might belong. Please post away...
Sarah
Muslim Women Redefine WAR
This anthology seeks to redefine the stereotypical definitions of "Muslim"
women that over flow Western discourses on the Islamic Other. The veil,
seemingly the age-old symbol of our repression and the archetypical
rationale for our rescuing by the west, has become a transparent symbol of
Islamic "barbarity." In this anthology we seek to move beyond such sterile
representations and narrow debates, calling for work that engages the
complexity that make up "Muslim" women's contemporary realities. We seek to
construct a multiple-voiced text and many-sided vision of our lives as
"Muslim" women by forging ourselves into new creative collectivities. In
this process the category "Muslim" must be rendered anew through our own
politics and cultural practices and such a rendering must reflect the many
valences of our multiple histories because we come from all parts of the
"Muslim" world-whether we are from Saudi Arabia, Britain, Indonesia, Sudan
or Black Muslims in the United States. Through this anthology we seek to
build coalitions among "Muslim" women, broadening the definitions of "war,"
and giving voice to the multiplicities of our lives. The reason why we have
put "Muslim" in quotes throughout this call is to move away from those
tendencies that seek to reduce us to monological stereotypes and to define
us in one homogeneous way.
This anthology encourages submissions that might subvert these stereotypes,
claim them and move beyond them or perhaps simply ignore them. Through
poetry, prose and photography we wish to express the multiple voices that
move within us and in our communities, voices that trouble the dominant
generalizations. Submissions should speak of war broadly but of struggles
specifically and redefine war and warring, from our bodies to the so-called
war against terrorism, from the war against hetronormativity in our homes to
the construction of the nation, from the war for control over our sexuality
to the war against cancer.
For ages it seems we have been torn between two empires, one that claimed
our freedom in rapacious capitalism and another that claimed to breaks these
bounds by divesting us of our cultures. Both were caught in a shadow dance
of proliferating arms. Now with the end of this so-called Cold War, the
nuclear race over and bombs under every pillow we are at the beginning of
another divide. Today, the US and its military is seeking to impose a (new)
world (dis)order creating new dictionaries of control, defining, normalizing
which person and populations, which nation and which culture can enter the
theater of "civilization." Sometimes this is simply a matter of which look
matches this weeks terrorist. Can we really believe what they claim
constitutes a threat when people are being held captive without due process,
unjustly profiled and targeted and carpet bombed, from immigrant ghettoes of
the US to Camp X-ray at Guantanamo Bay, from Palestine to Iraq, to
Afghanistan, to Kashmir? We are living in a period where violence is the
rule of the day, where states sponsor and legitimizing violence seeking to
control populations, to define a "just" death and to monopolize the right to
kill.
As our lives become targets of manufactured "truths", and the real questions
hidden behind corporate media sound bytes, Islam becomes the new demon to be
exorcized. While corporate radars drain our economic and natural resources,
and war lord militias backed by the US confiscate our lands, our cultures
are "occidentalized"; the Pentagon has co-opted The Battle of Algiers. It
becomes even more urgent to open our selves to the multiple forms of
struggles-to the many becomings that our survival demands. As "Muslim" women
we are at the forefront of struggles and war all over the globe. We are
targets of hate crimes in the US, we are also suicide bombers in Palestine,
"Muslim" women are taking up arms and throwing their bodies against military
machines while offering their sons, brothers, husbands, fathers and friends
to.
Through poetry, prose and photography this anthology seeks to bring together
the experiences, dreams, nightmares and views of "Muslim" women in their
daily struggle in and against wars throughout the world. As the war against
"terrorism" unfolds, we seek submissions that address the every day of
"Muslim" women's lives and that reconnect our resistances, spirituality and
religion, and our memory, loss, violence, sexuality and love. Issues such as
but not limited to:
Muslim Women and the Nation
Terrorism
Counter terrorism
Muslim women and the Nuclear Bomb or WMD
Muslim women and women of colour
Building Coalitions
The war in Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Nepal, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Middle East, New York City,
Indonesia, Algeria, Sudan, etc. etc.
Hate crimes
Queer Muslim women and their struggles and wars
The border the body and the Muslim nation
Motherhood and war
Pregnancy and War
Military Tribunals
INS detention and deportations
The construction of the wall in Palestine
India Pakistan border
Nightmares and September 11th
The Gulf War
Media and Muslim women
Organizing and Muslim women
The veil and liberation
The Quran and war and women
Muslim women and health
Reproductive rights to the fight for better health care/facilities
Cancer and Muslim women
Submission deadline: November 15th, 2004
Please send submissions to:
Sarah Husain
Email: ***@comcast.net
1115 Lasswade Dr.
Tallahassee, FL 32312, USA
_________________________________________________________________
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