Listen to prabhdeep singh kehal discuss Sikhi, queerness, colonialism in higher education, and interfaith dialogue on the latest episode of Blessed Are the Binary Breakers!
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[image description: screenshots of a photo of prabhdeep singh kehal and quotes by them. The photo shows prabhdeep in an olive green dress, darker green turban, long black beard, green eye shadow and silver necklaces; they're offering the camera a soft smile. The quotes are below:
“If you don’t start from the perspective of ‘There are things I will not understand but I’m about to learn,’it becomes very hard to have any sort of conversation.”
a second quote:
”He said, ‘as Sikhs we should vote for this because we believe that the sanctity of marriage is between a man and a woman.’ I’d never heard that before! I was like, ‘What??’ …
I didn’t see a problem. Other people made it be a problem. I was just kind of existing, and all of a sudden people were like, ‘That’s wrong.’ And I was like, ‘I don’t understand. Can you explain?’ And they were like, “...It just is.’ And I was like, ‘Well I just am, so there we go.’”
and a final quote:
“So that’s sort of what framed this idea that my faith and my identity could not be synonymous.
But it was actually meeting with other college-age Sikhs [and]…starting to engage with them and the sort of youth organizing they were doing in the Sikh community…That’s really when I started seeing that actually, the choice that had been forced on me was just one path; it was not the path. That wasn’t the only Sikhi out there – and today I would say that’s not even Sikhi, that’s just hate.”
