Shenaaz JanMohamed

fOUNDING dIRECTOR OF QUEER cRESCENT

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Shenaaz brings up an important point about her work existing at the intersections of her own struggle between bodily autonomy and state-violence.

How has the perversion of Muslim bodies perpetuate state-violence during the War on Terror? How has this perversion led to stripping the bodily autonomy and right to self of Muslims around the world?  

Shenaaz’s Story Offers Lessons in:

• Intersecting bodily autonomy, identity and personhood with security-state violence.

• Creating community that holds together the self as a focus for existing with purposeful resistance.

• Healing work within movement and organizing spaces that hold together both identity, cultural work, and self-awareness.

Shenaaz’s background as a therapist during the Muslim Ban led to the creation of Queer Crescent as a healing space that also commits to radical acts of cultural and movement work.

Why do you think it is important to have a therapist in the movement? What does Shenaaz’s background offer that fills a gap that we are seeing discussed as a common thread in the movement? 

In honor of Shenaaz’s healing work, how would you set up a sustainable health network in your organization. What would this require? What is preventing this from happening?