Political Principles
LGBQTI+ Muslims are sacred beings.
Loving ourselves and each other is a revolutionary act. The way we build and show up for our communities has transformative power.
Collective healing is possible through transformative justice and working outside of the police and carceral systems towards prison abolition, and likewise outside of the military through the end of all wars.
An intersectional and internationalist understanding and practice of Islam is not only possible, but necessary for our collective liberation.
As U.S. based Muslims our history and healing pathways are rooted in lessons from Black and Indigenous communities survival and wisdom.
Our struggle is linked with dismantling anti-Blackness in particular, and racism in general, zionism, xenophobia, islamophobia, patriarchy, ableism, queerphobia, transphobia and more.
We strive to eliminate any and all barriers to the full rights, agency and freedom of movement for all people through radical accessibility and bodily autonomy.
Our leadership is shaped by the love, survivorship and self-determination of queer, trans, nonbinary and femme Muslims.
Organizational Values
Queer Crescent seeks to be deliberate, purposeful, and intentional in uplifting the following values, through our programming and organizational culture.
Queer Crescent embraces conflict in generative, direct, and compassionate ways with a goal towards reaching consensus and the best path forward because we know that this can produce radical change by challenging ourselves and uplifting different (and potentially marginalized) viewpoints.
Queer Crescent commits to iqra (knowledge seeking) as a practice of sitting in doubt, learning, and the heart-center, because questioning helps us gain insight that leads us toward liberation.
We are connected to, informed by, and committed to allied social movements in order to further our work and interconnected struggles.
4. Queer Crescent centers marginal Muslims (such as Black, working class, neurodivergent, and/or disabled people) because when the most marginalized of us are free, we all are free. QC is committed to uprooting systemic oppression (such as anti-Black racism, ableism, Sunni supremacy, and heteronormativity) that shows up structurally and interpersonally in our organization.
5. Queer Crescent does our work through a expansive and politicized understandings of our communities and our members because queer Muslims are whole (queer) beings, whose multiple identities must be held simultaneously and treated cohesively. We work to build unity and belonging internally and externally.