#256 VUU Episode – UU Muslims
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On The VUU this Week (April 11th): UU Muslims – The VUU #256
UU Muslims, Ranwa Hammamy, Sana Saeed, Paige Ingram, and Tynan Power joined The VUU hosts and spoke about their experiences as Unitarian Universalists who also identify as Muslims.
Ranwa (they/she) is the President of DRUUMM and a community minister affiliated with the Mt. Diablo UU Church in California. They serve as the Executive Director for the UU Justice Ministry of California, organizing and supporting California UUs in the work of creating a just and equitable California. She is also a co-editor of the proposed Muslim Voices in Unitarian Universalism, along with Tynan Power.
Sana is the Co-Vice President of DRUUMM. She is currently serving as a Chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania working with undergraduate and graduate students on campus. She is also the Intern Minister for the UU Ministers Association and a recent graduate of Harvard Divinity School.
Paige is a Southern and Mid-Western based Black Muslim UU troublemaker and faith-rooted organizer and abolitionist. Her calling is to nurture emergent spaces where people can authentically connect in ways that heal and totally reimagine their communities. Paige is a community organizer with Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism, fellow with the Lorde’s Werq of Southerners on New Ground, co-founder of the Half-Moon Healing House in Greensboro, NC, anti-racism trainer with Resist U, freelance facilitator, speaker, and collage artist.
Tynan Power is a transgender UU Muslim faith leader and community organizer. He was a founding member of the the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), coordinates Transfaith’s Trans and Muslim project and founded Pioneer Valley Progressive Muslims/Masjid al-Inshirah, a progressive Muslim congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has been a member of the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence since 2004.
Power also is a writer and editor, whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Rainbow Times, The Good Men Project, and in the anthologies Progressive Muslim Voices: Personal Stories from the U.S. and Canada and All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim.
Production support provided by Margalie Belizaire.
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