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On Guest-Editing Abolitions – Writing Against Abandonment: Farhaana Arefin and Dr Abeera Khan (2024)
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Khan, A., & Arefin, F. On Guest-Editing Abolitions – Writing Against Abandonment: Farhaana Arefin and Dr Abeera Khan

Ahead of our launch event on 4 July, we spoke to co-guest editors Farhaana Arefin and Dr Abeera Khan about curating, commissioning, and editing Wasafiri 118: Abolitions - Writing Against Abandonment. Our summer 2024 special issue considers abolitioni... Read More about On Guest-Editing Abolitions – Writing Against Abandonment: Farhaana Arefin and Dr Abeera Khan.

States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, A. (2022). States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises. Feminist Formations, 34(1), 318-338. https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0013

Drawing on personal teaching experience, this article considers the potentiality and pains of a pedagogic strategy that practises what José Esteban Muñoz calls a "methodology of hope" (2009). How can educators, particularly those located in the "enli... Read More about States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises.

On The Fraught Politics of Becoming: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Queer Muslim Subjectivation (2022)
Thesis
Khan, A. On The Fraught Politics of Becoming: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Queer Muslim Subjectivation. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis critically examines the production of the ‘queer Muslim’ subject in contemporary Britain. It asks, how and why does the queer Muslim subject gain relevancy in particular political and historical convergences? To explore this question, it... Read More about On The Fraught Politics of Becoming: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Queer Muslim Subjectivation.

In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, A. (2021). In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests. Feminist Review, 128(1), 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789211013777

The trope of the repressive Muslim, obstinately attached to their regressive world views, recalcitrant antagoniser of modernity, has become a thoroughly familiar drama. Redundant spectacles abound: events often highly mediatised, substantiated by con... Read More about In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests.