Yaffa, friend of the bookstore and director of the Muslism Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity, will be in town celebrating the release of their latest book Letters from a Living Utopia! Join them for an author reading and Q&A, followed by a book signing.
Interested in Yaffa's other books? Find them at UnderTheUmbrellaBookstore.com!
Masks are required, and the venue is wheelchair accessible. ASL interpretation can be provided with 2 weeks advance notice. Please reach out for any accessibility requests.
About Letters from a Living Utopia:
A love letter to liberation, from Palestine to the ground beneath your feet.
When you think of freedom, where are you? And where are you headed? Dreaming of freedom from within the occupied and displaced worlds of Palestine, Letters from a Living Utopia engages with utopia as both a destination and a potential present. Addressing past and future selves among other crucial figures, Mx. Yaffa builds epistolary bridges in these pages, connecting the historical struggle for liberation of the land and its people with the intimate ways that we can recover hope–now and in the years to come.
Emerging during a time of generational dispossession, monstrous genocide, and personal pain, Letters from a Living Utopia is a journey of resilient repair that will leave every reader with the deeply felt certainty that Palestine will be free, but also that Palestine has always been free.
About Yaffa:
Mx. Yaffa (they/she) is a disabled, autistic, trans, queer Muslim and indigenous Palestinian culture worker and organizer. The author of Blood Orange, Whispers Beneath the Orange Grove, and Desecrated Poppies, Yaffa is also editor of Inara: Light of Utopia and executive director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD).
