Blessed Are the Binary Breakers
Religion & Spirituality
prabhdeep singh kehal's identities as a Sikh and as an educator motivate them to share knowledge wherever they can -- in classrooms, online, through resources for LGBTQ Sikhs and their families, and by partaking in interviews like this one!
Listen as prabhdeep talks with me about their doctoral studies around colonialism in higher education; about entering into interfaith and intercultural conversations with humility and openness; about growing up without feeling any clash between their Sikhi and their queerness until other people made it a problem; and more.
[Note: here is prabhdeep's explanation for keeping their name lowercase: "My name was not given to me in English. It was given to me in a language that does not use upper/lower case letters."]
Click here for an episode transcript.
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- Visit prabhdeep's website for information on their studies and links to other interviews with them: www.pskehal.com
- You can also find them on Twitter @prabhbob and on Instagram @prabhdeepsk
- prabhdeep recommends https://sikhfamilycenter.org/ for resources around family and faith.
For a transcript of this episode, visit transchristianity.com/podcast.
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Talking Points:
- Introduction
- Sikhi and resisting viewing Sikhi from a Christian or Western lens
- Religions are different from each other, and that's okay
- Queerness in other cultures; exporting Pride?
- prabhdeep's childhood: Sikhi and queerness as taboo; other people made their queerness a problem
- Meeting other queer Sikhs, commitment to creating and sharing resources
- More on interfaith encounters: seeing the similarities but not stopping there; discussing the fear that keeps us from appreciating religions not our own
- Entering interfaith conversations without a need to "win," with humility about what we do not know
- The history between slavery and higher education; discussing white supremacy within universities -- "this moment is not an accident"
- Discussing colonialism, class, and patriarchy's gender binary: it's about property and control
- final words of wisdom: trans people are inherently valuable and will not be quashed
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