Critical Analysis on Healing, Liberation, and Decolonial Islamic Social Justice
Survivor-led, anti-punitive, and reparation focused. Islamic feminism + critical analysis for collective struggle.
To Be Loved for Existing: A Healing Realisation
A birthday reflection on trauma, faith, and healing—things I wish someone told me so I didn’t spend millions of rupiah on meds and therapy.
I Wouldn’t Wish My Life on Anyone
Why Patreon? Why pay if it’s free later? Everything I publish eventually becomes free on the Knowledge Hub, because knowledge should be accessible. Patreon isn’t about paywalling information; it’s about making the work possible at all. Patrons: Get early access to essays and the full archive. Sustain the research, writing, and translation time that goes into every piece. Fund the redistribution of up to 25% of income to mutual aid campaigns. Paying here isn’t buying exclusivity; it’s sharing the cost of keeping this work alive so it can remain free for everyone later. What Your Support Sustains Hosting and technical…
Vasectomy Is Not Haram, Systemic Misogyny Is
Being a Muslim woman in Indonesia is political by design. This episode of Unbridled dissects Keluarga Berencana, MUI’s fatwas, and the state’s exploitation of women’s bodies—calling vasectomy taboo while systemic misogyny thrives unchecked.
Unfiltered Reflections on Leftist Spaces, Trauma, and Accountability
Unfiltered reflections on leftist spaces, trauma, and accountability. From mutual aid to purity politics, I explore how carceral logic repeats itself in activist circles—and why reintegration, nuance, and solidarity rooted in care must replace cycles of exile.
When Faith Begins with a Fracture
Jiwa tidak lahir dalam keadaan utuh. Ia lahir dari retakan. Di full episode perdana The Undying Soul ini, Wanda membagikan kisah nyata tentang luka masa kecil, pengkhianatan spiritual, dan kematian emosional yang membawanya memilih Islam dengan sadar. Ini bukan kisah pemulihan yang linear. Ini adalah pertemuan dengan iman, keluarga, dan patriarki. Sebuah ajakan untuk mempertanyakan apa yang diwariskan dan mulai memilih apa yang benar-benar sejalan. Di sinilah perjalanan dimulai.
If Islam Is Enough, Then Let It Be a Shelter for All Women
Islamic Feminism Manifesto: Islam as Shelter for All Women We often hear: “If Islam is enough, we don’t need feminism.” And we ask: then why are so many women still left behind; abused, unheard, erased in Islam’s name? If Islam is truly rahmatan lil-‘alamin—a mercy to all worlds—then its justice cannot be confined to the righteous, the religious, the modest, the married, or the Muslim. It must be a source of liberation for all women; the single mother, the sex worker, the queer woman, the survivor, the non-Muslim, the neurodivergent girl who flinches at loud imams. We are not here…
Radical Self-Care in Islam: Faith and Healing
Radical self-care is beyond candles and comfort, it’s survival. Rooted in Islam and psychology, it means setting boundaries, rejecting spiritual bypassing, and embracing healing as resistance. Caring for yourself is not selfish; it’s deeply political and faithful.
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Humanitarian aid is sold as neutral and benevolent. On the ground it often behaves like surveillance and control. This essay traces how mutual aid sustains survival in Palestine, Sudan, and Congo where empire’s aid abandons…
Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency
Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance…
Rethinking God: A Philosophical Examination of Free Will, the Problem of Evil, and Worship
A philosophical exploration of free will, divine hiddenness, and the problem of evil, asking whether God’s omniscience can coexist with human choice.
Is Islam Compatible with Modern Values?
When people ask whether Islam is compatible with modernity, they often assume Western liberalism as history’s endpoint. Islam does not exist to validate modernity. It exists to form an ethical life, challenge power, and expose…
Justice and Healing minikit
Why Patreon? Why pay if it’s free later? Everything I publish eventually becomes free on the Knowledge Hub, because knowledge should be accessible. Patreon isn’t about paywalling information; it’s about making the work possible at…
Muslims Parroting Colonial Hasbara
Aww, a Muslim posting an anti-Arab dog-whistle in support of Sudan — otherwise known as colonial hasbara — without naming the actual perpetrators (UAE or RSF)? 💔🥺 Sad, oh no, whatever will you do 💔🥺 It’s not okay.…
The Violence of Stupidity
When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. Violence isn’t always soaked in blood.
To Be Loved for Existing: A Healing Realisation
A birthday reflection on trauma, faith, and healing—things I wish someone told me so I didn’t spend millions of rupiah on meds and therapy.
I Wouldn’t Wish My Life on Anyone
Why Patreon? Why pay if it’s free later? Everything I publish eventually becomes free on the Knowledge Hub, because knowledge should be accessible. Patreon isn’t about paywalling information; it’s about making the work possible at…
The Unquiet Mind: A Short Memoir
This short memoir traces autism, hypergraphia, and grief — writing as survival and words as both weight and remedy. A personal reflection on faith, trauma, and the fragile relief of being held together by language.
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