GOOD FUN MUSLIM FRIENDS CLUB (GFMFC)

is a social performance in the form of a variety show. It champions the unapologetic self, complete with its vast multitudes, beautiful differences, and cultural complexities. GFMFC explores these concepts by caricaturing the way non-Muslims other their fellow Muslim citizens and the ways that American Muslims are forced to participate in their own othering.

The performance also lampoons efforts by Muslims who fall into the sociopolitical trap of “Good Muslims”, who are American as long as they assimilate and are self-hating. Muslims are forced to accept manufactured Islamophobic and racist stereotypes, forfeiting their own agency in self-identification. They are accepted as “American-adjacent” so long as they fit orientalist tropes and constantly prove that they are “loyal, fun-loving, ordinary” people.

So, let us prove it to you—we LOVE proving ourselves. Don’t you?