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Desi LGBT Fest 2023 (hosted by @desi-lgbt-fest)

Day 7 : Faith/Rituals of Love

Definitely geared heavily towards the 'Faith' part of this prompt as soon as I read it!

If being Queer is defying conventions and if being a part of the Queer community means going against heteronormativity and gender conformity, is it not Queer to forego materialistic ties and the love of a human partner and embrace the love of a greater being you have only heard about in stories?

All four individuals featured here were integral part of the Bhakti Movement and/or Sufism in South Asia. None were married other than Meerabai.

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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534) : A key name of the Bhakti Movement and the Gauriya Vaishnav tradition in 15th Century Bengal, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was believed to have been a vessel for both Radha and Krishna. Bengali doesn't use pronouns or gendered language and we may never know what they would have preferred to be identified as in a language they didn't know (English), I will simply resort to using They/Them for them. Their written teachings are few and far between but the verse mentioned here is the seventh verse of the only written record of their teachings, the Shikshastakam - a collection of 8 total verses. The translation here is my own and quite literal so that the interpretation is left to the reader.

Meerabai (1498-1597) : [CW : IMPLIED QUEERPHOBIA/APHOBIA] Meerabai was born into Rajput royalty and was married off, also to Rajput royalty, in likely an arranged marriage. While most of the stories surrounding her are folklore whose historicity is yet to be confirmed, her marital status can be confirmed, and so can her devotion and affection for Krishna and the divine, which she has herself penned in numerous poems and songs. Folklore does strongly imply that she was non-committal to her marriage and that her in-laws tried to poison her to death multiple times for it.

Kabir (1398–1448 or 1440–1518) : Found as an orphan by a Muslim weaver couple, Kabir's religion grew to become somewhat of an enigma for future generations. His stance, however, on the topic romance and marital relationships is quite clear - he looked down upon them and a huge chunk of his couplets strongly imply that romantic and sexual relations simply obstruct spiritual enlightenment.

Bulleh Shah (1680-1757) : Bulleh Shah, though an ardent proponent of loving the divine, was declared a Kafir, a non-believer/non-Muslim by a quite a few Muslim clerics of the time. He was known for speaking up against existing power hierarchies of the time and used vernacular speech for his writings (Punjabi, Sindhi) which not only served to popularize his works, but also let people connect to his words.

A personal note on my motivations under the cut.

A while back when I was actively going through the anxiety of finding out that I am ace and that I will never fit into the current South Asian society that the wedding industry has a chokehold on, I desperately wanted to see people from my own culture living happily without a partner. During one of my history rabbit hole escapedes, I restumbled upon the story of Meerabai, how she always insisted on loving and devoting herself towards Krishna, despite being married into a normative and wealthy household and despite her in-laws repeatedly attempting to poison her for not committing to her husband. Most of us from India grow up hearing about Meerabai, her spiritual connections to Krishna, and her struggles. The moral of those stories is always framed as 'believe in god, he will help you through tough times'. But this was the first time I was making a different connection, I was drawing different morals. And when I took Meerabai's non-conformity to her married life and started looking for more examples like hers, I was overwhelmed by how many more individuals existed without a partner, condemned being in a normative, married relationship, admitted to having lost human connections and faced resistance even, and yet stayed true to their orientation and sounded HAPPY! It was extremely hard to narrow it down to these four, but these do make my point! Labels are hard to transpose across cultures and history. But if being queer means being nonconforming of marital structures and being aspec/arospec implies neutrality, indifference, or aversion to romance and intercourse, then no one fits the label if they don't.

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j4jml · 1 year

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''Your passion stirs me into a frenzied dance: come swiftly, my healer as breath escapes me.'' — Bulleh Shah

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komal01 · 2 years

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Hasi, Sharaab, Aansu, Tasveer.

Tasveer, Aansu, Sharaab, Hasi.

- Laughter, Alcohol, Tears, Memories. Memories, Tears, Alcohol, Laughter.

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stardust-musing · 1 year

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Y’all:

Khayal rakha karein ap apna, jaise koi shayar apni likhawat ka rakhta hai

#literature #urdu aesthetic #ramadan #vintage academia #franz kafka #van gogh #sylvia plath #emily bronte #mental health #mahmoud darwish #bullehshah #punjabi poetry #urdu literature #spilled words #poetrycommunity #march #april #spring

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rasxkolnikov · 2 years

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Vaikh Bandeya !

Aasmana te urdy panchi. Vaikh te sahi ki karde ne; Na o karde rizq zakheera. Na o bhukke marde ne—

Kaddi kise ne urday panchi. Bhukke marde vaikhe ne?

Banday hi karde rizq zakheera, Banday hi bhukke marde ne—

The birds that fly in the sky,

Have you seen what it is they do?

Neither do they horde any wealth,

Neither do they die of hunger.

Has ever anyone seen

a flying bird die of hunger?

Man is the one who hordes his wealth,

Man is the one who dies of hunger.

-Bulleh Shah

#bullehshah #Sufi #love #poetry #poem #lost #life #hurt #literature #art #pain #quotes #urdu

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like-a-flowing-river · 2 years

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ਸਾਨੂੰ ਤੇ ਮਿਲਣ ਦੀ ਆਸ ਰਹਿੰਦੀ ਆ ਹਰ ਵੇਲੇ

ਜੇ ਯਾਰ ਹੀ ਭੁੱਲ ਜਾਵੇ ਤਾ ਕੀ ਕਰੀਏ ।

#punjabi #punjab #punjabi poetry #bullehshah #baba bulleh shah #gurmukhi #poetry

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nadaan-parinde · 1 year

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#sufi quotes #bullehshah

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wasimmce · 1 year

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Soch Ke Yaar Banayi Bandeya! #YounusAlGohar #GoharShahi #ImamMehdiGoharShahi #ifollowGoharShahi #sufism #bullehshah #murshid #allah Click: https://youtu.be/HpbGqXNqnmM #Watch #ALRATV #Live at 4:00 AM IST. #WhatsApp For #Spiritual #Heart activation +447401855568 (at India) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClEqfwktj_V/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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mobinkhan14m · 1 year

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Soch Ke Yaar Banayi Bandeya! #YounusAlGohar #GoharShahi #ImamMehdiGoharShahi #ifollowGoharShahi #sufism #bullehshah #murshid #allah Click: https://youtu.be/HpbGqXNqnmM #Watch #ALRATV #Live at 4:00 AM IST. #WhatsApp For #Spiritual #Heart activation +447401855568 https://www.instagram.com/p/ClERabfvDWh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#younusalgohar #goharshahi #imammehdigoharshahi #ifollowgoharshahi #sufism #bullehshah #murshid #allah #watch #alratv #live #whatsapp #spiritual #heart

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themeansoul · 5 months

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Ve hoon mainu das mahiya,

tere baaju kithe main jayiyaan

-bullehshah

#two line shayari #folk music #folk songs #bulleh shah #desiblr #desi academia #litreture #indian literature #love language

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sgybabar · 2 years

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• @alratv Murshid Aur Jaali Peer Mein Farq by @younus_algohar

#murshid #murshad #jaalipeer #peer #fakir #faqir #faqr #sufism #sufi #tassawuf #ifollowGoharShahi #ImamMehdiGoharShahi #islam #allah #quran #allah #khanqah #bullehshah #bulleya

ALRA TV Live - 24/03/2022

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j4jml · 1 year

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''Your passion stirs me into a frenzied dance: come swiftly, my healer as breath escapes me.'' — Bulleh Shah

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goodinformationbyme · 5 months

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Tu Jhoom - Shabnam Virmani #tujhoom #bullehshah #shorts

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stardust-musing · 2 years

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Nights of October, of frail, sickle moons, when the earth conceals the shining accomplice of assassins in its shadow, to make everything all the more mysterious-

—Angela Carter, from Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories;

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komal01 · 2 years

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Sirf sajda hi woh jagah hai;

Jahan ro bhi lo, toh saamne wala apka tamasha nahi banata

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0rdinarythoughts · 2 years

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Come to me, my dear beloved. The sufferings you have caused have killed me.

#bullehshah #lines

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