Join Muslim Counterpublics Lab on Friday, October 4th from 12-1:30 PM EST for a conversation with fellows from the inaugural Muslim Narrative Power fellowship that focused on building capacity within the Muslim community in the US to challenge the discursive infrastructure of the War on Terror in order to drive systemic change.
RSVP: bit.ly/MuslimNarrativePowerFellows
Event Description:
Muslim Counterpublics Lab was founded to challenge the US government’s development, deployment and perpetuation of a hegemonic narrative infrastructure that has served to justify state violence against Muslims and other marginalized communities, and to build narratives that are rooted in Muslims’ rights, dignity, and humanity.
MCL’s work is shaped by the knowledge that narrative is often weaponized in service of oppression. It plays a concrete role in influencing public opinion and shaping racist policy choices and impacts decisions about who is constructed as deviant and undeserving of justice - and who, as a result, gets profiled and who doesn’t, who gets detained and who doesn’t, who gets tortured and who doesn’t, and, finally, who gets to live and who has to die.
As we continue to witness the devastating and destructive impacts of language on the targeting and criminalization on many of our communities, whether in the War on Terror or Israel’s US-backed genocide of Palestinians, MCL has remained steadfast in our commitment to not only deconstruct problematic and demonizing narratives of Muslims and other marginalized communities, but to also facilitate spaces in which we can create narratives based on stories that are reflective of and authentic to our experiences. Our goal is to facilitate the radical reimagining of a discursive future where Muslims’ rights, dignity, and humanity are categorical.
Last year, we launched our inaugural Muslim Power Fellowship - a fellowship focused on building capacity within the Muslim community in the US to challenge the rhetorical infrastructure of the War on Terror in order to drive systemic change. Tomorrow, Friday, October 4th from 12-1:30 PM EST, we invite you to join us for a conversation with fellows from our inaugural cohort. Our amazing fellows will share their perspectives on the importance of Muslim narratives and how they have used their voices to intervene in problematic narratives of Muslims. They will be presenting their work to build Muslim narrative power at a time where Islamophobia and other forms of oppression, continues to escalate.
Our Muslim Narrative Power Fellows Featured Include (their bios can be found here):
-Rashida James-Saadiya
-Mikail Khan
-Roshni Ahmed
-Seelai Karzai
The panel will be moderated by MCL's Digital Spaces Project Director, Sanaa Ansari-Khan