In Search of My Mother’s Garden: Reflections on Migration, Gender, Sexuality and Muslim Identity

Abstract

The author offers few reflections on issues of migration, gender, sexuality, and identity. He notes that the driving force for this paper was a public lecture delivered in 2005 on women's history, in which he used his autobiographical narrative to think about questions of gender and sexuality in the context of Muslim identity. He explores how his narrative, delivered from his standpoint as a gay man, is inextricable from the lived experiences and political dimensions of gendered Muslim identity.