WRL BENEFIT! Living Violence/Writing Violence: Muslim Women Respond to War, Faith and Sexuality

Please join us for a poetry reading and visual art as we articulate these struggles and celebrate International Women’s Day for Disarmament.

Saturday May 24th, 2008
12:00 – 3:30 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery Street
(Between Houston and Bleecker)

As “Muslim” women living amidst a global war being waged by the United States and its attendant “fundamentalists” planted across various desserts, we are constantly negotiating our lives on a day-to-day basis. With the ongoing curtailment of civil liberties here at ‘home’, the constant obsession of the media with our bodies, and the West’s military apparatuses’ arduous mission to “save us from Islamic barbaric patriarchy”, how are we constructing our varied “selves”? The continued (indefinite) arrests, deportations and the ongoing war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan “Muslim” communities and our families are in continuous states of re-configuration. As the current State sanctioned violence gives order to the day, how is violence being maintained and justified in all sectors of our lived experience? What are the ways in which globalized violence impacts our lives locally and how are we resisting?

$7 Admission. All the proceeds will go to the War Resisters League to help organize a sustainable movement against military recruitment in our schools.

Featuring:
Samira Abbassy, Dinu Ahmed, Amina Ahmed, Farah Shaikh, Jennifer Ismat, Kim Joseph, Nilu Choudhury, Moumita N. Zaman, Saira Qureishi, Samina Shahidi, Shaireen Rasheed, Yasmin Moll, South Asian Youth Action Women’s Leadership Group and Youth from Urban Word NYC.

Co-sponsored by Urban Word NYC, Turning Point for Women and Families and the War Resisters League

F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker

www.urbanwordnyc.org
www.bowerypoetry.org
www.turningpoint-ny.org