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Sulaiman R. KhanSulaiman Rashad Khan in Urdu

Depth and Breadth of My Bodymind

We're multifaceted, so in Revolutionary LOVE®, I create, design, exist, play, and love from the fringes.

My principals

I'm obstinately aligned with these five quotes:

  • [Open Quote] “Disabled people know what it means to be vulnerable and interdependent. We are modern-day oracles. It’s time people listened to us…” [End Quote]
    Alice Wong 王美華, Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus (Disability Visibility Project)
  • [Open Quote] “Relationships are everything. Move at the speed of trust.” [End Quote]
    adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy
  • [Open Quote] “Joy is an act of resistance.” [End Quote]
    ‍Toi Derricotte, From “The Telly Cycle” (Poem)
  • [Open Quote] “Just as we need to eat and breathe, we also need rest to thrive.” [End Quote]
    ‍Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance
  • [Open Quote] “Fungi have taught me that there is a continuum that transcends most existences.” [End Quote]
    ‍Giuliana Furci, GIULIANA FURCI on the Divine Time of Fungal Evolution /239 (For The Wild)

They’ve supported me in growing as a creative Revolutionary Lover and sacred energy beyond simply being human.

Image Description: A sacred tree during a glorious, ethereal, hot summer day in August 2024 at Sulaiman’s local park. In the background, you see clear blue skies, glistening (albeit dehydrated) grass, the bark of a large fallen tree behind the single tree Sulaiman is sitting next to, and trees (Sulaiman’s sacred more-than, human-kin£ all around the park in nature.

Landscape view of Trees at Sulaiman’s local park in London during the Summer 2024. The trees are Sulaiman’s sacred, more-than-human kin.

My beliefs

I believe in Faith rather than forgery, we rather than me, bold Adrak (ادرک) rather than all betraying billionaires, Mamas and grandmothers (and their mothering wisdom) rather than malice and manipulation.

I believe in Queer rather than fear, hope rather than hypocrisy, bees rather than brutality, and organic seasonal sacred Pakistani mangos rather than mediocrity.

I believe in sequins rather than glitter (everyone can sparkle, yet very few people can genuinely, fully shine), Transness rather than blandness, humpback whales rather than worrying, and joy rather than jadedness.

I believe in community care rather than clicks, Fungi rather than followers, relationships rather than reels, and trust rather than tech.

I believe in seeds rather than sanctions, soil rather than speed, hydroponics rather than robotics, and heartful rather than the heartless.

I believe in humour and the true Global Majority rather than harm and the actual minority, Vandana Shiva rather than viciousness, oceans rather than oppression, and Make Love Not Porn (Cc: Cindy Gallop) rather than wars.

I believe in kindness rather than knavery, trees rather than trends, critical thinking rather than (oppressive)-phallus energy, and justice rather than jealousy.

I believe in Disability (Justice) rather than disharmony, in (the real AI) Access Intimacy rather than artificial intelligence, (collective) liberation rather than (unnecessary) lacerations, and these four “C’s” (communication, curiosity, compassion, and courage) rather than these four “C’s” (carelessness, cynicism, corruption, and complacency).

I believe in equitable integrity, income, and ideas rather than indifference, impatience, and intolerance, the heart rather than hatred, watermelon rather than wastage, and glorious energy rather than glorified gatekeepers.

Ultimately, I believe in love rather than likes.

I am more loving because of the wisdom and richness of Access Intimacy, non-academic (life-long) education, my Faith, my ancestors, my descendants, Fungi, Disability Justice, the universe, my Disability, and my Soma, Bodymind. I am more loving because of my interdependence and Revolutionary LOVE®.I am more sexy, spicy, and sacred because I was born and because of me.

Values

My personal and professional values are consciously in alignment with each other and consistently centred on interdependence and Revolutionary LOVE®. They are a reflection of my existence, actions, and interactions.

In my divinity, truth, power, creativity, interdependence, and Revolutionary LOVE® as a (time-travelling yet time bound) energetic sun and moon, I shine brighter than Sirius (the brightest star in the sky). I’m also more curious than the deepest moon — craters, scars, flaws, farts, and all. I know I won’t always get things right. Instead, I intend to use these values to do better today than I did yesterday. Progression over perfection and a work-in-progress, always. I trust non-academic (life-long) education, my Faith, my ancestors, my descendants, Fungi, Disability Justice, the universe, my Disability, and my Soma, Bodymind to support me and guide me on this adventure to the next right and best thing for me.

Radical, restful, regenerative. Always. XO

The Magnificent Seven: My Seven Values

[Open Quote] We are not afraid to adopt a revolutionary stance — if, indeed, we wish to be radical in our quest for change — then we must get to the root of our oppression. After all, radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’ [End Quote]

— Angela Y. Davis

  • Transformative (Innovative).
  • Abundant (Adventures).
  • Loving.
  • Collective liberation for all, human and more than (justice-orientated, specifically Disability and Funga).
  • Life-affirming infrastructures.
  • Transparent and accountable.
  • Holistic.
  • Self-awareness.
  • Consciousness.
  • Human but not human-centric.
  • Imaginative (creative)
  • Playful.

[Open Quote] Disabled people know what it means to be vulnerable and interdependent. We are modern-day oracles. It’s time people listened to us…[End Quote]

— Alice Wong 王美華, Disabled Oracle

  • Human Dignity.
  • Ambitious Expressionists.
  • Anti-capitalism.
  • Universal Basic Income.
  • Anti-ableism.
  • Pro-Disability.
  • Pro-Fat.
  • Humourous.

[Open Quote] In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist. [End Quote]

— Angela Y. Davis

  • Decolonisation.
  • Intersectionality (as defined by Professor Kimberlé W. Crenshaw)
  • Anti-oppression
  • Post-oppression.
  • Anti-racism.
  • Post-racism.
  • Curiosity, compassion, and courageousness. 

[Open Quote] “Liberation is the opportunity for every human, no matter their body, to have unobstructed access to their highest self, for every human to live in radical self-love.” [End Quote]

— Sonya Renee Taylor

  • Social Justice (including Disability Justice, racial justice, migrant justice, health justice, gender justice, media justice, research justice, design justice, communication justice, transformative justice, healing justice, reproductive justice, Indigenous justice, ocean justice, Funga justice, environmental justice, and climate justice)
  • Community.
  • Holistic learning (curious).
  • Abundance and growth mindset.
  • Storytelling.
  • Holistic teaching.
  • Compassionate (beyond empathy).

[Open Quote] All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you...[Close Quote]

— Octavia E. Butler

  • Access Intimacy (as defined by Mia Mingus).
  • Dignity Giving.
  • Life Affirming.
  • Safe.
  • Abundant.
  • Spaciousness.

[Open Quote] There’s room for all of you, and for everything you experience — the grim and the glorious, the wounded, wounding, healing and healed. [Close Quote]

— Hiro Boga

  • Human dignity.
  • Joyful.
  • Grieving.
  • Radical self-care (as defined by Angela Y. Davis).
  • Radical self-love (as defined by Sonya Renee Tayor).
  • Somatic care and practice.
  • Authentic.
  • Abundant Pleasure Activism.
  • Liberatory and Rebel Play.
  • Hopeful.
  • Community care and collective healing.

[Open Quote] Liberated relationships are one of the ways we actually create abundant justice, the understanding that there is enough attention, care, resource, and connection for all of us to access belonging, to be in our dignity, and to be safe in community. [Close Quote]

— adrienne maree brown

  • Revolutionary LOVE®.
  • Cyclical amplification.
  • Ancestral and Descendant Wisdom.
  • Nature kinship and Systems Wisdom.
  • Life Giving.
  • Gentleness, cosiness, and spaciousness.
  • Slowness, softness, tenderness.
  • Rest, stillness, and sleep.Holistic.
  • Holistic.

Radical Accomplices

To highlight the importance of interdependence and Revolutionary LOVE®, in no particular order, here are some people and brands that ignited and influenced the creation of these values (184 radicals and counting).

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I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

— Hafez