Layla Taurasi (She/They) is a Palestinian writer, human rights advocate, community organizer, spoken word artist, poet, and founder of a grassroots nonprofit organization. She uses poetry as a medium for advocacy on local and global human rights issues including anti-Palestinian racism and Indigenous sovereignty and liberation on Turtle Island. Layla explores themes of diaspora, exile, migration, decolonization, sexuality, mental illness, collective memory, revolution, and more. Some poets that have inspired her writing include Mahmoud Darwish, Suhier Hammad, Rafeef Ziadah, Ocean Vuong, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou. Her favourite books of poetry are Aja Monet’s My Mother is a Freedom Fighter and Warsan Shire’s Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head. Layal’s work is published in several magazines and zines in Canada and the US.

May E is a Palestinian lawyer based in Toronto. She has been involved in community initiatives for almost two decades and is one of the co-founders of Indigenous Land Defence Across Borders, a coalition of Palestinians and Indigenous women/2-spirit people from Turtle Island that organized a delegation to Palestine.

Amina Abdulhaq is an independent researcher and lawyer from Jerusalem, Palestine. She focuses on feminist and queer politics, particularly in relation to settler colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. Her work challenges oppressive systems and aims to dismantle dominant narratives while addressing the structures that uphold exploitation.

Rayan Anton is a Palestinian Social Worker and Psychotherapist based in Toronto. He primarily works with queer and trans people of colour and bases his practice in dismantling and resisting systemic oppression and intergenerational trauma. He is the co-founder of Meem Toronto – a social group for queer and trans people from the Arabic-speaking region.

Tania is a Palestinian/Lebanese, queer Naturopathic Doctor and Relational Therapist. Exploring the relationship between our internal and external worlds, she’s particularly interested in community and liberation psychology and how that can be integrated into organizing and across social movements.