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Can a religiously inspired dream act as a queer vision in life? Bridging personal history with years of research among mystics in Pakistan, this lecture offers an intimate account of a dream and its public afterlife. In a story spanning twenty years and three countries, desire comes out through encounters with the sacred and queerness arrives like a sense of pilgrimage. Queer and religion are made companions. The lecture invites us to appreciate dreams as queer revelations: partial word and deviant forces through which our ties to the world are made, unmade and remade.  

Omar Kasmani is a cultural anthropologist and writer based in Berlin. He is the author of Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan.

In English