WASLA COLLECTIVE ON-SITE RESIDENCY AT MUSEUM OF IMPOSSIBLE FORMS

Museum of Impossible Forms is delighted to collaborate with Wasla Collective, who will be our spring 2022 on-site residents.

The Wasla Collective is an intersectional collaboration founded by two women from Muslim backgrounds, Wisam Elfadl and Mire Mroué, also known as Wasla وصلة

Museum of Impossible Forms is delighted to collaborate with Wasla Collective, who will be our spring 2022 on-site residents. Wasla will be at MIF during March and May engaging with a series of talks, screenings and gatherings as part of their Islamia Queerist (Queering Islam) project. Stay tuned!

You can follow their residency program at  @islamiaqueeristi / @museumofimpossibleforms

About Wasla Collective

The Wasla Collective is an intersectional collaboration founded by two women from Muslim backgrounds, Wisam Elfadl and Mire Mroué, also known as Wasla وصلة (English: unifier and/or enabler). The values and activities of the collective are strongly based on the principles of anti-racism, intersectional feminism and safer space. Wasla is part of an association called BuraQ, which aims to support the well-being of Muslims and LHBTIQ people of Muslim background living in Finland and to improve their status and visibility within the Finnish Muslim communities. Wasla Collective is Finland's first collective promoting the visibility of LHBTIQ-inclusive interpretations of Islam, whose activities are planned, implemented and managed by LHBTIQ+ Muslims or persons with a Muslim background themselves.

Wasla developed the ISLAMIA QUEERISTI (Queering Islam) project, a three-year initiativ with the main objective of raising awareness of the diversity of interpretations of Islam and, above all, of LHBTIQ-inclusive interpretations of Islam in Finland through visual arts, photography and free writing. More specifically, by maintaining a decolonizing queer perspective, the project aims to challenge prevailing perceptions of Islam as a monolithic manifestation of cis-heteropatriarchy and to bring long-silenced queer Muslims individuals to the center of the debate while talking about Islam. In addition to the above, IQ seeks to increase collaboration with existing LHBTIQ-inclusive Muslim communities around the world. The project is funded by the Kone Foundation

Image courtesy of Mire Mroué.

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