Thursday, Aug. 22
6:00pm-8:00pm EST

In “Redefining Words: Through Poetry,” participants will examine commonly used words (particularly relational words like “wife,” “sister,” etc.) and break them down, interrogating where our ideas of them come from in order to redefine them for ourselves.

Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator and performer as well as the author of When We Were Sisters (OneWorld, 2022) and If They Come For Us (OneWorld, 2023). They are the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color.

Along with Safia Elhillo, they edited Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019), an anthology that celebrates Muslim writers who are also women, queer, gender-noncomforming, and/or trans. They are also a writer and co-producer on Ms. Marvel on Disney+ and wrote Episode 5, “Time and Again.”

To register for “Redefining Words,” donate to Mohammed’s family (suggested donation $60 USD / 56 EUR, please donate more if you can) then fill out the registration form.