A Spiritual Home for Us

From Yumna:

We kindly invite you to our residency’s closing gathering, where we share a meal, gather our experiences & reflect on the past months of giving shape to A spiritual home for Us Residency.Sitting with questions on belonging — to ourselves, to others and to God, we collected fragments into an online archive, by Muslim women, for Muslim women. In a period of four months, we explored the expansiveness of spirituality through the Divine, the Mind, Nature and the Body. During this wrap-up gathering, we will bring all parts together and continue to shape the meaning of a spiritual home.We are accompanied by the amazing writer & poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan who puts our individual experiences into a broader context of being Muslim in Western Europe, and what it means to ‘see for ourselves’ (hint to her new book coming out!)Our bodies will be nourished by 1001 kitchen.

Hosted with WORM Pirate Bay, Reading Room Rotterdam, and KIOSK books.

Suhaiymah is a poet and writer whose work confronts assumptions about history, race, violence and knowledge. She has eight years of experience facilitating writing workshops in community settings, using creativity to assist people in shaping their vision for what living lives free from violence might look like on their own terms. She is the author of Seeing for ourselves: and even stranger possibilities (2023); Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia, and the poetry collection Postcolonial Banter; a co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University; and contributor to the anthologies Cut from the Same Cloth? and I Refuse to Condemn. Her writing has also featured in The Guardian and Al Jazeera, and her poetry has been viewed millions of times online. She is a co-founder of the Nejma Collective, a group of Muslims working in solidarity with people in UK prisons. Suhaiymah is based in Leeds and is currently writing for theatre.