Title:
(I CAN’T) PRAY THE GAY AWAY! EXPERIENCES OF CONVERSION THERAPY AMONGST QUEER MUSLIMS
Authors:
NURUL QISTINA BTE FADHILLAH
Issue Date:
19-Apr-2019
Citation:
NURUL QISTINA BTE FADHILLAH (2019-04-19). (I CAN’T) PRAY THE GAY AWAY! EXPERIENCES OF CONVERSION THERAPY AMONGST QUEER MUSLIMS. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
Abstract:
In Singapore, Conversion Therapy (CT) is an open secret. Christian ministries and psychiatric professionals openly advertise their services to “cure” queer individuals, besides holding public campaigns to lead “wayward” queers back to the right path of God (e.g. Truelove.is slogan: “Don’t come out, come home”). While controversial elsewhere, there is no official condemnation nor criminalisation of CT by public institutions here. What is not well-known or studied is CT for Muslims,
especially when its adherents dismiss the existence of the Queer subject. To begin with, neither are well-documented in local literature, if they even are. Using paradigms of Violence and Voice, I attempt to introduce new narratives into discourses surrounding queerness and religion. I frame CT as violence, focusing on the consequences of CT on subjects: how they react to such violence, and heal from it. I argue that violence begins and is reinforced in the invisibilised privacy of the home,
with families and communities playing an equal – if not, bigger – role vis-à-vis practitioners in “converting” subjects, causing lasting damage that obliterates the subject’s relationship with religion and God, themselves, and others. Nonetheless, powerful cognitive schemas and discourses that devalue the queer subject shape the thoughts and behaviours of social actors involved, reiterating the connection between socio-legal policies, social institutions, and individual behaviour. In sum,
violence towards queers exists on a continuum, beginning with institutionalised prejudice before culminating in one extreme of conversion therapy.
URI:
https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/158000
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