Join Mx. Yaffa for eight intensive sessions to discuss building Utopia, a collectively liberated world. This program is built around Yaffa's book Letters From a Living Utopia, published by Common Notions Oct 2025. 

Required Reading: Letters from a Living Utopia, order here or purchase a signed copy below

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.

Optional Reading: Whispers Beneath the Orange Grove, order here or purchase a signed copy below

Whispers Beneath the Orange Grove is an essay collection where Yaffa blends personal narratives with strategies to build a liberated world grounded in mutual aid, community care, and collectivism. Rooted in Indigenous Palestinian culture and guided by love, spirituality, and belonging, Yaffa offers a compelling vision and practical tools for organizers and mobilizers-both new and experienced-dedicated to creating a just world.

Reflecting on experiences like being unhoused and navigating psychosis, Yaffa emphasizes survival and resistance strategies. Drawing on lessons from post-9/11, the collection addresses the current rise of fascism and presents tools like community care as a practice to strengthen collective bonds. Critically engaging with settler colonialism, the essays focus on the most marginalized, offering a roadmap for collective liberation and a more just future.

Program Information

This series will be facilitated primarily by Mx. Yaffa, with occasional guest facilitators. 

You are able to sign up for all the sessions or individual sessions. If you select all sessions you will receive the zoom link automatically and there is no need to re-register. However, if you register for a single session then you must register in the week leading up to the session to receive the zoom link. If you run into any problems please email mohammad@themasgd.org.

In addition to these sessions a new season of Be Cute. Stay Dangerous. Will be released concurrently with this program. 

All funds raised from this campaign will go to support critical needs of trans global majority folks most impacted by genocide. 

This program is run by and sponsored by The Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity, Meraj Publishing, and Ta’awum Incubation Hub

Co-Sponsors: The Peoples Fund, Jamaica Plain for Palestine, Refaat Library Atlanta, Liberatory Literary Lesbians, Salt Lake Artists Against Genocide, Seven Sisters Collective, Slice of Hope - CO, Siren and Deathling

Eight-Session Political Education & Organizing Series

An expansive, open-access training rooted in collective liberation. This 8-session training series starting the first weekend of December is an expansive offering built by Mx. Yaffa through their organizing work for over 15 years across dozens of countries and hundreds of communities. This program is open to all. Please keep in mind that this is not a vetted space and participants do not necessarily have a direct relationship with Yaffa. This program is designed to be highly accessible—no cohort structure, no requirement to attend all sessions, and access to stipends to ensure financial accessibility (DM yaffa on instagram @yaffasutopia to request a stipend, please keep in mind stipend funds are limited and we can not guarantee funds).

Each session is 2.5 hours long and stands alone, allowing individuals to engage as their time and interest allow. This is not a fellowship model—it’s broader and more flexible, intended to grow with our people and our movements.

Sessions will be held Sundays starting December 7th at 9AM PST. 

For this series, each session is designed to support organizers and movement workers in deepening their practice, regardless of positional power, experience, or formal role.

Session Topics

1) Envisioning Utopia: Dec 7th, 2025 

When you close your eyes to envision utopia where are you? What do you feel? What are the places today that you feel that sense of liberation?

2) Healing the Utopic Parts: Dec 14th, 2025

Inner Child, Descendants, Ancestors

What is your connection with your inner child? With your descendants? Your ancestors? What healing do they need to move towards utopia?

3) Non-Attachment: Dec 21, 2025

Exploring non-attachment, what it is, why it is critical, and how it can be used as a foundation for liberation. We'll discuss practical examples of utilizing non-attachment in our organizing, grief, healing, culture change, and transforming conflict.

4) Accountability and Care: Dec 28, 2025

What does it mean to be accountable to a vision of utopia? What does it mean to care for the caretakers, for ourselves? 

5) Beyond Identity Politics/Understanding Roles in a Liberated World: Jan 4, 2026

We imagine what our roles would be in a liberated world? What does a world beyond identities look and feel like?

6) Building a Love Ethic/Embracing Belonging: Jan 11, 2026

What does it feel like to be loved in community? What does it mean to belong? How do we build communities that move us towards liberation instead of away from it. 

Recommended reading for this session: All about love, bell hooks

7) Collectivism and Self-Actualization: Jan 18, 2026

A world of rest

What is self-actualization in a liberated world? What is the self? How does ego prevent us from collectivism? 

8) Death as Utopic: Jan 25, 2026

How does death as a practice move us towards liberation? Why is it so important for us to process our own death, the death of our loved ones, of the planet, of systems of oppression?