Sunday, Sept. 29
7:00pm-9:00pm EST

In this workshop, Leila Abdelrazaq will guide participants in imagining new futures through comics. We’ll start with some free writing: What is the new world that you want to see in your lifetime?
Together, we will use comics to help us envision speculative roadmaps towards liberation. Bring your favorite art supplies, scrap paper or a journal for brainstorming, and a sheet of paper to draw your comic on. No prior experience with drawing or comics is necessary!

Leila Abdelrazaq is a Chicago-born Palestinian artist-scholar, author, and cultural organizer. Her debut graphic novel Baddawi (Just World Books, 2015) was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards and has been translated into three languages. Her creative writing, essays, short comics, and illustrated editorials have been published in The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Funambulist, The Believer, Mizna, Harper’s, Kohl: A Journal For Gender and Body Research, The FADER, South Side Weekly, and others. She earned her MA in Modern Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan in 2020, her MA Thesis focused on Palestinian futurist art and post-national political imaginaries.

To register for “Comix for a New World,” donate to Hamza (suggested donation $60USD / 55EUR, please donate more if you can!) then fill out the registration form.