From Lived Wisdom to Building a Liberated World: A Conversation with Mx. Yaffa and Randa Jarrar

Join us at the Bureau for a conversation between queer Muslim authors Mx. Yaffa and Randa Jarrar
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Both authors will be discussing their recent releases: Be Better Broken: In Service to Liberation and You Are a Teen Mom: Instructions. The lived experience and wisdom from these authors will inform all communities on how to tangibly build a liberated world.
At this event there will also be a launch of the priority areas for trans and queer Muslims by a coalition of organizers and organizations that will help shape organizing priorities moving forward.
This event will be co-hosted by MASGD (Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity) and Killjoy Institute.

MASGD is a Trans Muslim Global Majority organization that supports, empowers and connects Trans and Queer Muslims and those who are values-aligned to build a liberated world.
Killjoy Institute is a queer & trans led political home for the feminist killjoys building a liberated world through collective study and organizing.

Mx. Yaffa is an author, organizer, and culture worker. Yaffa’s poetry, non-fiction, and fiction books have been sold globally and translated to various languages. Yaffa is the author of the poetry collections: blood orange, desecrated poppies, sage, and thistle, the non-fiction essay collections: whispers beneath the orange grove, living to 99, letters from a living utopia, and be better broken: in service to liberation, and the editor of the anthology: Inara. Yaffa is the inaugural Executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity and manages various other organizations and networks to support the most marginalized of the most marginalized. Yaffa’s service to liberation spans continents. They dream of living in a liberated Falasteen soon.
Randa Jarrar is the author of the memoir Love Is An Ex-Country, the novel A Map of Home, and the collection of stories Him, Me, Muhammad Ali. She is a filmmaker and actor who has appeared in independent films and on the A24 TV shows Ramy and #1 Happy Family USA. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award, an American Book Award, and others. She lives in Los Angeles.