Perspectives series for 9 Parts of Desire featuring Israa Hasani and Maryam Gabriel-Imam
Please join us for a series of 30-minute post-show discussions following select Sunday matinee performances of 9 Parts of Desire. This panel will feature Israa Hasani, cultural consultant and moderator, in conversation with Maryam Gabriel-Imam, Educator, Creator, Artist and Activist.
Hear and share personal reactions and thoughts inspired by the play, filtered through the perspectives of social justice activists, scholars, social workers, and artists. Speakers will have read the play, attended the production and will be ready to share their thoughts on how the play connects directly to our community.
Israa Al-Hasani, QMHA is a counselor in Portland, OR. She specializes in counseling. She is also the Cultural Consultant for 9 Parts of Desire and an experienced moderator.
Maryam Gabriel-Imam (pronouns they/she) is an Egyptian poet, scholar, singer-songwriter, translator, disabled performer, and tenderqueer caterpillar. They hold a masters in Middle Eastern Studies from the City University of New York, and they currently teach History at Rosemary Anderson High in Portland, OR. They are also the up-and-coming bilingual drag performer and activist, Baba Yusef. Maryam/Baba is currently working on mixed-media poetry performances incorporating live music, drag and spoken word, breaking the boundaries of who gets to participate as artist or audience. Their current focus includes writing about home as absence, land as space that speaks, solidarities and community lovemaking, and interrogating while reshaping what it means to heal as a postcolonial body. Maryam is also working on their/her first and forthcoming chapbook, Pynk Volvo Blue Apocalypse (2020).
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