#sikhi

[divinum-pacis]

Sikh pilgrims attend a ceremony to celebrate Vaisakhi festival, which also marks the New Year in Sikh tradition, at the shrine of Gurdwara Punja Sahib, the second most sacred place for Sikhs, in Hassan Abdal, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

[thats-so-sikh]

Sikhi is not only an intrinsically leftist faith it is in it of itself a leftist framework comparable to communism or socialism or anarchism in this essay I’ll….

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

“It is okay — and in fact good and necessary — for members of a religion to engage with their religion in a esoteric and transgressive ways that are still healthy” and “Nonmembers of a religion should not use that religion and make jokes about that religion in ways that are disrespectful and churlish to the religion, its adherents, and its beliefs” are two statements that can and should be simultaneously believed.

[use-violence]

Just saw something that fucking killed me a little on the inside

This is not even a fucking langar it's a bhandara firstly, and the Khalsa flags with those flags- girl do i even need to explain

[pocketfullofwrappers]

The Sikh community had their annual langar they do on campus (v delicious shahi paneer) today, there’s also a United and Lutheran Church breakfast and supper program weekly. Makes me more appreciative that Shias serve niyaz at imambargahs/hussainyahs. I wish that was done more often and in service to those outside of the imambargah like langar. Sharing food is a very underrated practice I think we should do more of.

[shield-and-saber]

WAIT SIKH MANDOS YOUR MIND!! so true when i learned mandalorians have weapons as a part of their religion i was like omg me too

eeeeeee!!!!!! thank you thank you!! the more me and my bestie talked about it, the more it made sense. weapons as part of the religion being the obvious parallel, but i feel like there's also a similar sense of cultural pride and devotion to family, plus whatever comparisons you can make between dastar and beskar'gam and how personal it is to each individual

also, the darksaber but as a kirpan ?????? YEAH TELL ME THAT DOESN'T GO HARD AS FUCK

(if u would like me to ramble about this some more, i have many more thoughts. like kazakh eagle hunter rey. ghilman finn (east african man taken by islamic empire to live as a slave-soldier. these men were often married off to turkic women and this is how finnrey can still happen folks). muslim coded jedi (muslim obi wan and sikh satine, can we take a second to appreciate this please). malay pirate han solo. mughal princesses sabé and padmé !!! the possibilities are endless)

[schrodingers-fool]

Hello and Sat Sri Akal! One may know I’m bi and genderqueer and also Sikh. This one is for other queer Sikhs: I made a discord! As you may know, sangat is very important to Sikhi, and sometimes it’s hard to build that connection to sangat when you’re queer, so I decided to build my own! If you’d like to be a part of our community, here’s the link!

Check out the Queer Sikhs community on Discord - hang out with 7 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[algorrmortiss]

biting the bullet and reaching out for advice and/or commentary from trans and nonbinary sikhs. other queer sikhs are welcome to respond but would like to focus more from those who have experienced gender dysphoria and/or euphoria. ordeal is under the read more. i am not accepting any kind of hate on this post.

i feel very nervous about writing this but i am also tired of struggling to answer my questions by myself. so, here it goes - hi, i am a young transmasc nonbinary person who was raised as a sikh. i say raised as because while i do appreciate the values of sikhi, i am not religious. i never have been. i feel it is important to also mention that i am mixed (the other half is white european). my relationship with being culturally sikh has always been rocky, but it got more intense as i started to accommodate my needs of alleviating intense gender dysphoria. i’m pretty fair-skinned and generally pass as white. my hair is cut short because wearing it long triggered suicidal feelings from said dysphoria. to put it simply, i do not “look like a singh” anymore, and i have a sickening amount of guilt about it. there is so much pressure to hold strong to sikhi, especially with the history of oppression and scarce representation, that i feel like i’m doing something wrong when i cannot fully grasp the spirit of it. my existence feels wrong. i do not know if it is okay for me to even call myself a sikh anymore. i don’t feel at home with myself or my circumstances. i don’t even know if it’s okay for me to try and continue wearing a kara as someone with shorn hair. everything feels so wrong. i cannot talk to my punjabi parent about any of this. he’s very close-minded and i don’t know how he feels about queer folks. he’s already abrasive when i try asking simple questions about punjabi culture or religion. my chosen name is so different from my legal name, even the thought of trying to get my family to abide by it someday makes me cringe. strangers think it’s cool but i know they’re just going to laugh about it. i feel like i am abandoning everything i should be, just by trying to be more comfortable in my own skin. i don’t know where sikhi fits within my transition goals, and it feels like a heavy burden.