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.