In a world hungry for clean lines and easy answers, Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Abdurahman Farajajé lived beyond binaries.

Raised in a multiracial, multireligious Berkeley, California where difference was ordinary, Farajajé learned early that wholeness did not require erasure. This episode traces a life shaped by multiplicity, Black, fluid, spiritual, intellectual, at a time when institutions demanded legibility over truth.

From being disciplined for an “untogether” curriculum, to navigating the fragile language of bisexuality as it first emerged as a personal identity, to confronting racism and gatekeeping in academia, Farajajé insisted that liberation without the body, desire, and spirit was incomplete. During the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, he carried that insistence into the Black church, choosing presence over safety.

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