As the 21st Century rolls along, American Muslims are dealing with ever more complicated questions regarding religious observance and personal behavior.

Here’s what one Muslima has to say: “Yes, it’s possible to be queer and Muslim”

“I don’t need to defend why I keep going back to my mosque, don’t need to name the spiritual highs and sense of connectedness I derive from this imperfect space, this imperfect community. This imperfect community that struggles with homophobia, but also with anti-blackness and misogyny, that is simultaneously battling surveillance and racial profiling, wars in the name of saving us from ourselves, motherlands being pounded by drones.”