Every 9 November communities around the world come together in celebration of sexual and bodily rights as human rights, as part of the One Day One Struggle! campaign (ODOS), coordinated by the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily …
Read the full story »“أجسادنا الغير نمطية هي لوحة؛ ألوانها هي خيارتنا، وحرب على القوالب المجتمعية”” الجواب بيبان من عنوانه”، واحد من الأمثال المصرية الشائعة التي يتم إدراجها فى سياق تبرير الأحكام المسبقة على الأفراد والأشياء من المظهر الخارجي. يعد ذلك المثل نتاج لثقافة توغلت في جذور المجتمع المصري وتشعبت في أفكاره, وهي “النمطية”. تسعى تلك الثقافة لصنع نماذج موحدة من الأجسام والعقول, وتضع صوراً مٌثلى لما هو جيد ومقبول وما هو غير جيد بناءاً على أعراف وتقاليد وموروثات ثقافية ودينية، غير عابئة إطلاقاً لحرية الأفراد في أجسادهن/م وعقولهن/م.أرتبطت مفاهيم حرية الأجساد إرتباطاً وثيقاً بمجتمع الميم؛ حيث كان من الصعب لأجسادنا الغير نمطية أن تجد مساحاتها المتعددة في أي من تلك القوالب المجتمعية الحادة، والمتجاهلة للتعددية. وعليه كان أحد المساعي الهامة هو النداء بوقف تعليق المشانق وتكفيرنا بناءاً على اختياراتنا فيما يخص أجسادنا وهوياتنا.كانت – و مازالت- أجسادنا الكويرية وتجاربنا و إختياراتنا صرخة يومية في وجه مجتمعنا المصري، الذي يعتبر أموراً مثل عدم ارتداء أزياءاً محافظة، وصولاً إلى العمل بالجنس التجاري، أو الإجهاض, خارجة عن آدابه العامة وخادشة لحياء أفراده. فصاحب ظهورنا -ولو الضئيل- بالشارع المصري سواء بشكل ظاهر أو خفي صخباً بداخل العقول؛ صخباً من الصعب تجاهل وجوده. وفٌتِحت أبواباً لعدة نقاشات نتج عنها إعادة النظر في آراء، لتلغي الحد على حريات الجسد والوصم القائم على الاختلافات الجسدية والجندرية لجميع الأفراد. كما ساعد ذلك الصخب على خلق مساحات نحتضن بها بعضنا البعض، نراعي بها رفاهنا الشخصي والجماعي, وننشر ثقافة التقبل بداخلها لأنفسنا, لجميع الإختيارات والتفضيلات, سواءً كنا أفراداً من مجتمع الميم أو أفراداً من خارجه من الغير منتميات/ين لقوالب المجتمع المصري الصلبة، مساحة تعبر بعيداً عن وصم المجتمع وتفكك ثقافة الكره، والتمييز وعدم الاعتناء الكامنة تجاه الأفكار والأجساد الغير نمطية.تحتفى مؤسسة مساحات للتعددية الجنسية والجندرية بمنطقة وادي النيل (مصر والسودان) هذا العام بالساعيات/ين لحريتهن/م الجسدية وسلامهن/م الروحي والنفسي فى كل مكان, والصامدات/ين أمام قولبة المجتمعات للأجساد وطرق ممارسة العقائد، والمتمسكات/ين بحقوقهن/م في اختياراتهن/م بما يقمن/وا به تجاه أجسادهن/م وعقولهن/ك.
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“Our non-conforming bodies are a masterpiece, their hues are our choices, and their presence is a war against social structures”
“You CAN judge a book by its cover”–an Egyptian proverb that reflects normalized judgment based on how people appear. This proverb is a result of a culture that is rooted in the Egyptian society: “Conformism”. This culture aims to make unit castes of bodies and minds, and place an ideal to what is acceptable and permissible and what is not.
Freedom of bodily integrity has always been close to the existence of the LGBTIQA++ community; as it was hard for our non-conforming bodies to find their colourful existence among the rigid castes of society. Therefore, one of the main aims that crossed all LGBTIQA++ existences was to call for a halt of all sorts of accusations of apostasy based on our choices over our bodies and identities.
Our Queer Bodies, choices, and experiences have been–and will always be–a daily shout in the face of our Egyptian society. A society that considers things from dressing up immodestly, all the way to sex work, and abortion, matters that violates its morals and ethics. Hence our public visibility, stark or sublime, has instigated a stir in the collective conscious; a stir that is hard to dismiss. One that opened gates for questioning the strict regulations on bodily rights, on normalized stigmatization, on discrimination based on bodily and gender differences for everyone. Moreover, it helped create spaces of support, where we care not only for each others but for our own selves, where we spread a culture of acceptance to the diversities existing inside and outside the LGBTIQA++ community, from people who do not conform to the castes, a space that crosses the society’s discrimination, that dismembers the culture of hate, stigma, and carelessness that targets the non-conforming bodies, minds and souls.
This year, Mesahat Foundation for Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Nile Valley Area (Egypt and Sudan) is celebrating the warriors of personal freedom, of collective and individual healing wherever they are. Those who are standing still, and standing up again in the face of each blow that conforms their bodies and beliefs, those who are holding up to their and others rights for all choices related to bodies, minds, and souls. #OneDayOneStruggle
Every 9 November communities around the world come together in celebration of sexual and bodily rights as human rights, as part of the One Day One Struggle! campaign (ODOS), coordinated by the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily …
We’re very excited to show you what we’ve been up to!
Earlier this year, Qorras and CSBR – Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies collaborated on organizing a 5-day cross-regional strategic convening, Tajassodat: …
CSBR joined 316 organizations and 506 individuals to affirm the right to safe and legal abortion at UN HRC 42. Read the statement below.
JOINT CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT
42ND SESSION OF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
INTERNATIONAL …
Building on CSBR’s regional program CARE in 2018, our Coordinator Rima Athar and Lin Chew (Institute for Women’s Empowerment) facilitated a 4-day workshop on Holistic Security for LGBTI Human Rights Defenders in Asia, organized by …
CSBR was at the ILGA Asia 2019 conference, which took place from 18 – 23 August 2019 in Seoul, South Korea.
On 23 August, we hosted a workshop on “Queer Muslim Movement Building: Our Stories and …
CSBR Coordinator, Rima Athar, was one of the Content Committee Working Group members that organized the first ever Global Feminist Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer (LBQ) Women*’s Conference, which took place from 6-9 July 2019, in …
CSBR is a co-sponsor of Religious Communities affirming LGBTIQ people around the World, a side event at the upcoming 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council taking place Tuesday, 2 July 2019, from 2:30 …
Tutur Feminis: Meluruhkan yang Biner
(Indonesian Feminist Voices, Shedding the Binary)
Tutur Feminis is a coloring book created by Yulia Dwi Andriyanti and the Qbukatabu Collective in Indonesia as one of the activities under CSBR’s collaborative program …
4 April 2019
Brunei: Halt the Implementation of the Sharia Penal Code
The Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR) and civil society members across Muslim societies call on the Sultanate of Brunei to …
CSBR joined Musawah and 118 women’s rights and human rights organizations and activists from across Muslim societies, to urge leaders of Muslim-majority countries to stand in unity against the persecution of women’s rights defenders. Add …
Applications are open Tajassodat: Conversations to Advance Trans Rights and Justice in Muslim Societies (26-30 May 2019), which is a joint program by Qorras and CSBR.
The call is open to transgender & non-binary people living …
#BalanceforBetter
Aggregate action and shared duty regarding driving a gender balanced world is vital. International Women’s Day is a worldwide day commending the social, financial and political accomplishments of women, including trans women.
Now when we talk …
Four activists from Asia Pacific share their analysis of the advances of fundamentalist and fascist forces across the region. Listen to the audio below:
This discussion addresses the following questions:
How are anti-rights forces operating in Asia-Pacific? …
The situation of LBQT people in Pakistan is complex, as most of them face fundamental survival challenges. HOPE is one of those very few non-profit organizations which are providing safe spaces to sexual and gender minorities …
Every 9 November communities around the world come together in celebration of sexual and bodily rights as human rights, as part of the One Day One Struggle! campaign (ODOS), coordinated by the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily …
CSBR joins over 230 feminist organizations and networks in calling for a binding treaty on transnational corporations. See the statement below. Sign onto the statement here: http://bit.ly/F4BTStatement
We the undersigned feminists, women’s rights groups and civil …
CSBR joins Tunisian civil society and the Alliance of Inclusive Muslims to endorse this letter to President Essebsi of Tunisia, calling for equal inheritance rights.
6 September 2018
Your Excellency Mr. Beji Caid Essebsi President of the …
For immediate release:
International coalition of civil society groups across Muslim societies–from Algeria, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mali, Pakistan, Palestine, Turkey and beyond–condemn the whipping of two women for “attempted sexual relations” which was carried out …
We’re very excited to show you what we’ve been up to!
Earlier this year, Qorras and CSBR – Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies collaborated on organizing a 5-day cross-regional strategic convening, Tajassodat: …
