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Asylum
seekers, refugees,
precarious individuals, trans people...
AOZIZ is an inclusive, opened network, endeavored
in order to fight against social exclusion in the cultural sector. This
structure will create the conditions for greater diversity in the
sector. This
network was established since 2018, around the intersectional issues of
LGBTQ+
rights, migrants and minorities in general (feminists, Muslims, people
with
disabilities, etc.).
This year again, we are
organizing our Queer, Inclusive, Intersectional Festival (from June
16th to July
9th). Thousands of participants are expected; again this year, in
coordination
with Pride 13 and the Festival of Marseille.
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PERFORMANCE
:
Our
migrations in movement
(Part of our AOZIZ Festival 2022)
LGBTQ+ Migrant-es - RML association
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Performance during
the Pride
March parade (July 2), with choreographer Liam Warren and LGBT+
migrants from
Marseille. Information:
RML.Marseille@gmail.com
And also our Desk at the Palais
Longchamp park, associations' village
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July 1 - 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. / July 2 - 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
With :
- distribution of brochures,
flyers
- sale of traditional African
drinks and dishes
- T-shirts bearing the logos of
our associations
- sale of our books about
intersectional topics
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(Houses of
inclusion in Marseille)
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ARTE REPORTAGE
France : imam & gay
The inclusive community of Marseille
Screened on the 21/01/2022
"That's not Islam!" It
is not this fascistic cancer that they impose on us thanks to their petro-dollars”.
When Ludovic-Mohamed-Zahed speaks of the Wahhabi current of the Saudis, or of
the Salafist rigorism, he could not be clearer and says aloud what many Muslims
think quietly.
For
this community, Islam is a
religion of peace and over the decades it has lost the tolerance that
may have
characterized it. These imams stand out in the Muslim world: one of
their imams
is Franco-Algerian, full of diplomas, openly gay. For the past ten
years, he
has also been one of the coordinators of a so-called inclusive
progressive
current which campaigns for an open Islam, respectful of the rights of
women,
of the LGBTQ+ community and for inter-religious dialogue. Little by
little, its
current and those who follow it become more visible, but the road is
still long
and there are many obstacles. From Mecca to Berlin and Metz via
Marseille where the CALEM Institute is established, portrait of imams
like no other.
Author : Olivier Ponthus -
Réalisation TV :
O. Ponthus, D. Al Asaad, I. Schultz, S. Eppinger
Full documentary online
(translated in 6 languages)
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Rumi's Isiphephelo
This year again
(September 2020 to May 2021)
The CALEM Institute provides its training, on the basis of renowned
scientific research, in particular for progressive imam-es from
France,
Europe
and beyond:
Now in France, after having been the
founder of the first inclusive
mosque in Europe, we have two progressive and inclusive Islamic
structures (in
Paris and Marseille), members of our international movement international movement.
In addition, like each year, we
organize an inclusive weekend, where former and new participants can meet, at
the CALEM institute in Marseille. Everyone is welcomed! About the program :
- sharing and conviviality
- inclusive and participatory
workshops
- energy healing sessions (Reiki)
- walks in the Calanques of
Marseille
end of August at the CALEM Institute
(launch of level one, two and three: September 2022)
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CALEM
Publishing |
Lattest publications on sensitive issues, analysed according to our intersectionnal paradigm:
Available 1st April 2021, click here
Available 1st July 2021, click here
Available 1st November 2021, click here
All our publications online here
 
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Our lattest publication :
"Decolonize progressive Islam"
Strongly framed by politics, “the
Islam of France” is constantly controlled and subjected to demands for
allegiance and conformity. “There has never been so much talk in France of
“republican values” as to denounce the deviant behavior of Muslim immigrants”
(Sayad, 1999).
Indeed, the management of the
Muslim faith in France is part of a long history of political interference,
inherited from the colonial period. From now on, it is the descendants of
immigrants and Muslims, who, in the name of secularism and the fight against
“separatism”, face a stigmatizing policy of threat and suspicion. This policy,
still marked by coloniality, affects all the more the multi-minorized people
who question the established order.
Romy Dematons offers here a
comparative study between three so-called "progressive" mosques, in
Paris and Marseille. Her thesis, supervised by Dr. Juliette Galonnier, brings
to light the reproduction of certain logics of intra-community domination. This
multi-sited terrain, dotted with the photographs of Camile Farrah Lenain,
highlights the voices of knowledgeable subjects whose stories and experiences
are sources of knowledge and expertise. This hymn to community care invites us
to decolonize progressives of all stripes, whatever their identities.
Passionate about issues of inclusion, the author traces different strategies of
collective organization leading to horizons of revolution, justice and
liberation.
Romy Dematons, researcher in
political science, graduated from the Doctoral School of Sciences Po and the
Sorbonne (Paris and Abu Dhabi). After a literary preparatory class, a double
history-Arabic course and studies in comparative sociology-politics, she
obtained an advanced certification in gender studies. At the UN, Romy Dematons
worked alongside experts from CEDAW, the Committee against Discrimination
against Women. Involved for 5 years in various collectives, she is Co-founder
of the popular education program Health Sexualities of the association Lallab.
Preface written by Fatima
Khemilat, specialist in Islam in France, racial and gender issues in France.
Afterword written by Liza Hammar, researcher, feminist and decolonial activist.
Buy the book online
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Early 2022, our Cabinet
was honored to be part of several events (most of the time online due
to Covid restrictions),
in France and elsewhere:
Follow all
the activities of the CALEM Cabinet online, on our page
Facebook dedicated to our contents, in French, Arabic and
English:
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Inclusive intereligious Week-end
Inclusive theologies and LGBT+ rights #CouleursGaies
(18 & 19 December 2021)
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Eid Ramadan 2022 online prayer
German Liberal Muslims #LIB
(3 May 2022)
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Celebrations of interfaith or
LGBT+ marriages
We have been honored again this year,
most often online, to facilitate the blessing of couples, in France and
elsewhere. Learn more here
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Popular ecological brown bag meeting
Queer and religion workshop #PEPS
(1er avril - Grenoble) :
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University
Science-Po Paris seminar
Inclusive theologies and laïcité (secularism) #Emouna
(14 December 2021)
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Christmas with the LGBTQ+ Migrant-es
Refuge Migrant-es
LGBT+ #RML
(25 December 2021)
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Queers Muslims - academic webinar
European network for
work with preparators #WWW
(11 January 2022)
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CALEM  AOZIZ |
Complete program here (PDF ONLINE)
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This year again, we organize our queer, inclusive and intersectionnal AOZIZ Festival: 16th of June, 9th of July. Thousands of participants expected; this year also, in coordination with Pride 13 and the Festival of Marseille.
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