Telling Queer and Trans Muslim Stories

Queer and Trans Muslim stories are often erased, tokenised or co-opted in attempts to frame Muslims at large as uniquely homophobic and transphobic. We are bringing together poet and screenwriter Fatimah Asghar, award winning author Zeyn Joukhadar, historian and writer Blair Imani and screenwriter Faryal Velmi to discuss how we make room for Queer and Trans Muslim stories to be told on their own terms. This conversation will be chaired by Latifa Akay, the Director of Education at Maslaha.

Accessibility

This event will have BSL interpretation. Please contact us with any additional accessibility needs - we are committed to making our events as accessible as possible.

Speakers: 

Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of the novels The Thirty Names of Night, which won the 2021 Stonewall Book Award and was a Lambda Literary finalist in transgender fiction, as well as The Map of Salt and Stars, which was translated into 20 languages and won the 2018 Middle East Book Award. He…