📣 We are so excited to announce that the registration for our highly anticipated second reading group with Dr. Mohamed Abdou on “Queer Muslims & the Sword” is now open!! Register at the link in our bio by April 8th and we hope you’ll join us to build new worlds together 🌍
Early Jummah Mubarak family! 🌙
🩵🫂🪬 Join us this Friday, May 15th (and every Friday!) @1 :00 pm et | 12:00 pm ct | 10:00 am pst for MASGD’s Jummah!!
This Jummah, we will be leading a Khutbah on Defining Mutual Aid. What does Islam teach us about mutual aid? How do we conceive of and embody mutual aid as a living entity, ebbing and flowing with the times? Why is it necessary to center mutual aid as we commemorate the 78 th anniversary of Nakba Day? Ultimately, this session will urge us to fully immerse ourselves in mutual aid in order to divest from capitalism and the state.
Register: bit.ly/masgd-mutual-aid
For the month of May, we have 5 sessions over Zoom every Friday (Jummah) for our Mutua Aid: In Striving Towards Trans Muslim Liberation series exploring mutual aid as an Islamic practice. From May 15th to June of 2026, starting at 1PM EST, we will have Khutbahs and Jummah prayer related to how we as trans-queer Muslims define and experience mutual aid.
Our first lesson will be on Friday/Jummah May 15th at 10 AM PST | 1 PM ET over Zoom!
Register: bit.ly/masgd-mutual-aid
1. Strategy: Defining Mutual Aid (5.15.26)
2. Harm Becomes Irrelevant (5.22.26)
3. Eid AlAdha Prayer w. Khutbah (5.27.26)
4. Mutual Aid w. Killjoy Institute (5.29.26)
5. Mutual Aid in Community (6.5.26)
Post design inspired by Fierce and Free trainings by @officialblmp and @translawcenter
Early Jummah Mubarak family! 🌙
🩵🫂🪬 Join us this Friday, May 8th (and every Friday!) @1 :00 pm et | 12:00 pm ct | 10:00 am pst for MASGD’s Jummah!!
This Jummah, we will be leading a Khutbah on Remember Kent State: On the Anniversary of Four Students Killed on May 4th, 1970. This Friday we’ll remember and honor the legacy of the Kent State students who were killed by police while protesting against the US Imperialist War on Vietnam. We will contextualize the Student Intifada within Kent State’s legacy as well as the waves of repression of students and protestors. We’ll also discuss the roles and challenges of trans and queer Muslim organizers and student-organizers in this current climate.
Register: bit.ly/jummah-2026
We’re kicking off our Killjoy Spring of Queer Love with our May Book Club: Hijab Butch Blues! Not only will we be holding our FIRST EVER in-person Philly book club along with our usual in-person NYC book club, we’re also SO honored to be joined by author Lamya H themselves for our virtual book club 🥹
We encourage folks to join both in-person and virtually if you can— we’ll continue our in-person discussions virtually to share takeaways across regions and chat with Lamya.
Join us to discuss the raw, life-affirming memoir exploring faith, queerness, community, and the journey of radical learning and unlearning that each of us ventures on 💚
P.S. Enroll in Killjoy’s membership for as little as $5/year to access all our monthly book clubs and other offerings 👀
Early Jummah Mubarak family! 🌙
🩵🫂🪬 Join us this Friday, May 1st (and every Friday!) @1 :00 pm et | 12:00 pm ct | 10:00 am pst for MASGD’s Jummah!!
This Jummah, our very own wonderful Safwan will be leading a Khutbah on Labor Day and Quranic Interpretations of communal care. They will lead community in a collective reading of Khutbah/Sermons sourced from labor organizing & worker movements. Together, we will explore how labor organizing, especially ones moving in alignment with the abuse of our working class family in the Global South, is essential in bringing down imperialist empire, colonialism, and genocide. Our labor is vital to the continuation of genocide. Our voices, our time, and our attention are vital. We can’t wait to share with you all how Islam supports us in our involvement and understandings of labor movements and strikes.
Register: bit.ly/jummah-2026
Hi everyone! Join us for the last session of our Trans-Queer Muslim Drop-In Organizing Space. We hope to use this time to hear more from y’all, and speak to y’all about the needs of organizers at this current moment. We want to shift resources effectively to folks fighting on all fronts. Hope to see you there. Please register for the Zoom link at bit.ly/tqmorganize
Alt Text: A red-orange mosque sits in the background while two hands break free from chains.
Surrounding the mosque are clouds and black birds.
Early Jummah Mubarak! 🌙
🩵🫂🪬 Join us this Friday, April 24th (and every Friday after!) @1 :00 pm et | 12:00 pm ct | 10:00 am pst for MASGD’s Jummah!!
This Jummah, our very own wonderful Safwan will be leading a Khutbah on Narrative Preservation: Amazigh and Quranic Teachings. They will explore ‘How might we begin to preserve our histories and narratives that tell the truth?’ All colonial powers use a textbook in which narrative plays a strong part and often we are living in the ruins of the stories they made of us. This Khutbah takes lessons from the Amazigh community and history while linking to examples from the Quran on self-representation.
Register: bit.ly/jummah-2026
Have you registered for our Queer Muslims & the Sword reading group yet?! You’re in luck, because our reg deadline has been extended to THIS THURSDAY APR 23RD🤩💜!! Our first session with Dr. Mohamed Abdou is this Saturday Apr 25th so make sure to register at the link in our bio @queermuslimsofnyc 🫵
MASGD is honored to be presenting at the Ayah Project’s ‘Created As We Are’ 2026 Conference on April 11th fom 2-3:30pm PST.
Get your tickets HERE: bit.ly/cawa2026.
Join virtually HERE: bit.ly/cawamasgd
**we have a special opportunity for folks unable to join in-person, to join virtually for this session!**
Read more about our presentation below!
Trans Muslim Priority Areas, Principles, and Values.
This session explores MASGD’s comprehensive organizing guide that situates trans-queer Muslims and allies in values, grounds organizing in a defined set of principles, and empowers politically-aligned communities by strategizing interventions in building a collectively liberated world. We’ll delve into MASGD’s 14 long-term priorities and 7 immediate priorities that call upon the community to act with urgency and principledness. We’ll also highlight how some world-building work will be visible, while other efforts will be intentionally invisible – whatever is most strategic and safe to ensure the work remains possible.
Early Jummah Mubarak! 🌙
🩵🫂🪬 Join us this Friday, March April 10th (and every Friday after!) @1 :00 pm et | 12:00 pm ct | 10:00 am pst for MASGD’s Jummah!!
After seeing how much our community loved weekly Jummahs for our Towards Trans Muslim Liberation Education Series, we are delighted to announce that, for the foreseeable future, MASGD will now be hosting Jummahs weekly!!! We aim to utilize this time to provide more advanced lessons, trainings, and discussions regarding Trans Muslim Liberation and how we work towards developing that vision.
This Jummah, we will have a khutbah on “Preparing for the Next Crisis: Surat Youssef and Community Care.” In this session, Yaffa will explore ‘How might community look like now in order to organize when the next crisis comes?’ As we know economic impacts will start to affect the most marginalized of our community first. This Khutbah goes into the dream of the king in Surat Youssef and community hardship and what community must look like now for what’s to come.
Register: bit.ly/jummah-2026
Option Pre-Jummah Podcast: A Conversation with Mx. Yaffa | The Mutual Aid Podcast
⚔️The upcoming reading group for my manuscript “Queer Muslims & the Sword” is not your typical liberal white Euro-Amerikan, identity-reductionist notion of queerness, it is rooted in reverence for the mujahideen & their conceptualization of an Islam of the oppressed & Below
📚Sign up by going to the link in bio of @queermuslimsnyc
