Bae Sharam is a London based performance artist whose work spans the queer muslim identity and islamophobia and challenges Islamic fundamentalism. They will be sharing an intimate performance telling the true story of growing up female bodied in an Islamic military dictatorship in the 90s. This will be followed by a discussion on how to reconcile being muslim while being queer, the necessary evolution of Islam and a challenging of the white, homonormative narrative of “gay”.