ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of family and education in shaping the processes by which queer Muslims navigate, negotiate, and take up their non-normative gender and sexual subjectivities and subject positions. It begins by considering how the religiosity of family members and the responsibility that queer Muslims bear towards them play a role in the building of their subjectivities. Subsequently, it explores the role of family pressure in shaping queer religious practices. In the second part of the chapter, the focus is on education to explore how formal and informal educational institutions impact the formation and negotiation of queer Muslim selves. What is the role of the family in the formation of religious, gender and sexual subjectivities? What is the impact of formal education in the formation of queer Muslim subjectivities?
