This Sunday 11/3 at 2pm, (633 Centre St., Jamaica Plaine MA) during our Mutual Aid Fall Fest, trans Muslim Palestinian poet Mx. Yaffa yaffasutopia will read from their new book, “Whispers beneath the Orange Grove.” 🇵🇸🍂🍁❤️

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.

Stop by @firstbaptistjp at 2pm for their reading and discussion. Come early or stay late to participate in our mutual aid bake sale, yard sale, and raffle for Gaza.

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