HARVESTING OLIVES: a journey through the realms of grief, intimacy and utopias

Join us for this fundraiser event at Nordic Black Theatre, as Mx. Yaffa, a trans Palestinian death worker, community organiser, guides us through HARVESTING OLIVES—a one-person performance adapted from their books Desecrated Poppies, Blood Orange, and Inara. We hold a container for chaos, intimacy, restorative devastation, falling apart, and space to commune with ancestors. This immersive experience draws on poetry, oral history, and storytelling to spiral through grief and invoke visions of utopia.

All ticket sales goes to queer and trans Palestinians, administered by The Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity.

** Please note that this is a masked event. Masks will be available at the door.

Bio
Mx. Yaffa (they/she) is an acclaimed disabled, autistic, trans, queer, Muslim, and indigenous Palestinian. Yaffa is the executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) and has received multiple awards for their transformative work around displacement, decolonization, equity, and centering the lived experiences of individuals most impacted by injustice. Yaffa is an engineer, peer support specialist, death doula, birthing doula, and yoga teacher. Yaffa is the author of “Blood Orange”, a poetry collection about displacement, colonization, and hope building, the editor "Inara: light of Utopia," about the current genocide and a free Falasteen, and “desecrated poppies” are out now. Their newest collection of essays "whispers beneath the orange groves" will be released Oct 7th, 2024.

Photo credit: Michael Colgan