What did you dream of last? Do you remember it? If you reach deep inside yourself, what do you truly yearn for - individually, collectively, for humanity as a whole, for the worlds in and around us? In any room, I love asking two questions:
What if? And why not?
Muslim Futures began exactly in this crack.
It started in that moment of refusing to only be a response to violence, a target in someone's script. It began in that moment of insisting that Muslim life, Muslim joy, Muslim grief, Muslim knowledge, Muslim art and Muslim futurity are not side-notes to 'European' histories and existence, but engines of it. That we have the right to imagine, to design, to shape the worlds to come.
But let me tell you, where that crack came from.