Religion

Getting personal with Ayla: Muslim Catholic Spiritual Lesbian Mother

Ayla grew up as a second generation Turkish German in Berlin. In the interview she shares her story about growing up in a Muslim family, running away from home as a teenager, becoming a mother and converting to Catholicism while falling in love with a woman.

By Lea Noa

Religion has an important function in the public and political life of many societies that also affects the relations between the sexes and women’s (and men’s) rights. Still, how do religion and politics mingle precisely and what are the concrete social and political consequences of this mixture from a gender perspective?