Ayesha Bhimdiwala

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For me, Muslim Futurism is a movement that everyone can take part it in one way or another and it starts with acknowledging and uplifting the voices that have historically been missing from the sci-fi conversation.
Muslim Futurism: The Aliens are Coming and They’re Reclaiming the Narrative — Arts Commons Blog
It's important to me that I approach these ideas not as dissonant, but as harmonious, because my vision of a Muslim future reflects my own existence and lies in the synthesis of faith and a technologically developing world.
Muslim Futurism: The Aliens are Coming and They’re Reclaiming the Narrative — Arts Commons Blog
In contrast to mainstream Western sci-fi's use of the Islamicate aesthetic to depict a harsh, foreign quality in the land or people, I consciously try to envision the positive interconnectedness between religion and technology, of spirituality and machine
Muslim Futurism: The Aliens are Coming and They’re Reclaiming the Narrative — Arts Commons Blog
Before I begin creating, I always ask myself how I want to see my community represented in the science fiction genre. How can I subvert the harmful tropes and create a space for Muslims and Islamicate culture in sci-fi that does the community justice?
Muslim Futurism: The Aliens are Coming and They’re Reclaiming the Narrative — Arts Commons Blog
It means to envision a future in which Islamicate culture is not deprived of its essence and used as decoration for mysterious or harsh desert settings, but rather is depicted through informed storytelling that truly represents a culture too often viewed as the other.
Muslim Futurism: The Aliens are Coming and They’re Reclaiming the Narrative — Arts Commons Blog
For myself, as a Muslim sci-fi writer and artist, Muslim Futurism feels like the perfect intersection of my identities, allowing me to explore my culture freely in a vision of the future that is inclusive of my community and centres our stories.
Muslim Futurism: The Aliens are Coming and They’re Reclaiming the Narrative — Arts Commons Blog
Building on the path blazed by Afrofuturism, Muslim Futurism encourages conversation between Islamicate culture and visions of the future. In my opinion, it’s the true alternative to Western sci-fi's orientalised aesthetic, allowing nuanced representation and unique creation at the intersection of futurism and the Muslim and greater Islamicate world.
Muslim Futurism: The Aliens are Coming and They’re Reclaiming the Narrative — Arts Commons Blog
Shabazz’s insistence that Black and Muslim identities could be complementary responded to Black American anti-Muslim sentiment that was stoked partly by African American Christian triumphalism, but also by the anti-Black racism that he acknowledged existed in the Arab Muslim world
Black History, Islam, and the Future of the Humanities Beyond White Supremacy - Franklin Humanities Institute
But if you’re worried about leaving projects behind, you can set a schedule for when projects come out of time out or choose to balance one almost done project with one project you’re really excited about.
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Eventually, I come back to that project in time out and when I do, I have fresh eyes. I can see what’s working and what isn’t. I have new ideas about how to resolve the problems. And I’m excited to be engaging with the project all over again.
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there is also a time and a place to put a project on time out. It’s often better not to rush work out the door that isn’t really finished. Some of you may not have this problem, but I can get impatient, frustrated, and maybe even a little bored. Reading the same words over and over on a page can lead to me not really reading, but just moving my eyes back and forth.
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