In this session, Louiza “Weeze” Doran talks with a biracial Palestinian whose family fled Palestine during 1948, landing in Lebanon and later in the United States. They share insight from their lived experience, as well as, point us to research and tracked data regarding the experiences of those in Palestine. From refugee experiences during the Nakba to refugee camps, to Palestinian rights to Israeli apartheid, to mental health and resistance to settler colonialism.

They state, “And so part of our rage about the reaction to certain things, to only certain communities, is that these decades and decades and decades of violence have been literally unknown, ignored. I mean, by everyone, forever, and yet, suddenly, they’re worth attending to and I would say they’re absolutely worth just like they’ve been worth attending to, for the last 75 plus years.”

Resources:
More Learning:
– https://www.jadaliyya.com/

More On Apartheid:
– https://jewishcurrents.org/understanding-apartheid
– https://www.btselem.org/apartheid
– https://thisisapartheid.btselem.org/eng/#1

Transcript Here:

https://1948tofreedom.com/2023/10/30/session-3/

In this session, we speak with a Doctor from Gaza. For their safety and protection, their voice has been altered. There is a transcript below for easier listening.

This Doctor shares important data and experiences to keep in mind regarding the day to day lived experience of those in Palestine, centralized in Gaza; from manufactuered poverty, to education, to the power grid, to daily struggles of families before and after 10/7/2023.

Transcript Here:

https://1948tofreedom.com/2023/10/30/session-1-from-gaza/

Mx. Yaffa is an acclaimed disabled, autistic, trans, queer, Muslim, and indigenous Palestinian individual who has received multiple awards for their transformative work around displacement, decolonization, equity, and centering the lived experiences of individuals most impacted by injustice.

In this session, Louiza “Weeze” Doran speaks with Yaffa regarding their experience as a displaced indigenous Palestinian, who has lived in multiple countries during war and revolutionary movements. They share about their family’s experience of displacement in Palestine, the family that still lives in Gaza, and more. Yaffa also shares about their work in the Muslim community around Sexual & Gender diveristy as the Executive Director of Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), and their forthcoming book regarding the same experiences.

Resources:

Ebook Preorder Now

Paperback Preorder Link – Coming Soon

Virtual Book Launch 11/13

Yaffa’s Instagram: @yaffasutopia

Yaffa’s Tiktok: @yaffasutopia

Yaffa’s Linktree

Transcript Here:

https://1948tofreedom.com/2023/10/30/session-2-yaffa/