Salaam All! This year we are once again offering Eid prayers online inshAllah thanks to generous donations from FITNA members for funding our speakers & accessibility team! They will be live-streamed on FITNA FB page and FITNA YouTube. You can click on this event to get a reminder for when the prayer starts. We’re delighted to announce Maya Leggat and Gabriel Arkles as our imams and Nakia Jackson as our prayer coach. Maya will be leading the prayer & Gabriel will be giving the khutba/sermon. Their bios are below. ASL interpretation & CART captions will be provided. Since Eid prayers have a slightly different format than regular prayers & our captioning team does not speak Arabic [though they will still caption the prayers], we are sharing the text of the prayer here for you to follow along: https://tinyurl.com/fitnaeidprayertext Timeline for the event: 8:00 Livestream starts with Eid takbeers 8:10 Prayer starts followed by khutba/sermon Zakat Al Fitr: We encourage you to check out transzakatproject.org to pay zakat al fitr if you’re interested Speaker bios: Maya Leggat (she/they) is currently a law student, with studies focused on reentry reform and access to healthcare. They love cats, have a big sweet tooth, and love reading (especially scifi/fantasy). Gabriel Sabir Arkles is a lawyer and writer in Brooklyn, NY (Lenape land). He works at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, serves on the board of HEARD (a cross-disability abolitionist organization), and helps lead the Alyssa Rodriguez Center for Gender Justice. Growing up, he attended the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia. As an adult, he is grateful for many sources of spiritual support and guidance; he connects with queer and trans Muslim community at MASGD, attends jummah services at Masjid al-Rabia, joins dhikr circles at Dergah al-Farah, and studies Islamic feminist and abolitionist theology with FITNA and Queer Muslim Book Club. You can read his work in Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith, and Sexuality and Truthout. Nakia Jackson is a freelance writer and editor with a demonstrated history of working in the writing and editing industry. She is a strong media and communications professional skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Editing, Public Speaking, Journalism, and Publications. Image description: Blue background with 3 different shades of blue in different swoops with blue sprinkles at top along with yellow dots. On the right is a cartoon of a mosque in blue, yellow and pink with the FITNA logo on the dome. On the left is white text stating: Eid Al Fitr 2023 Online Prayer prayer led by: Maya Leggat sermon/khutba by: Gabriel Arkles prayer coaching by: Nakia Jackson ASL and live CART captioning will be provided Friday April 21 8 am PDT / 11 am EDT

Featuring Pooja Gehi, Cara Page, and Tarso Luís Ramos. Moderated by Janet Jakobsen. How can the left develop more robust strategies to undermine and disrupt the powerful ascendance of the U.S. Right? How can the left learn from its history and the present moment to build a transformative intersectional social justice agenda that encompasses reproductive justice, LGBTQ liberation, racial and immigrant justice, civil liberties, and economic justice? In the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections, Cara Page (Activist-in-Residence 2016-2018), Tarso Luís Ramos (Executive Director of Political Research Associates and Activist-in-Residence 2016-2018), and Pooja Gehi (Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild) discuss intersectional strategies to build long-term resistance. Recorded on November 13, 2018 at Barnard College in NYC. This event was co-sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Political Research Associates, the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies at Barnard College.

Last week, the Supreme Court delivered a surprising and decisive victory for the LGBTQ community, ruling that employers cannot fire people based on gender identity or sexual orientation. Though the landmark decision is a major step forward in the march for equality, the fight for LGBTQ civil rights is far from over. In fact, this was only the first ever transgender rights case heard by the Supreme Court. There are still significant gaps in federal discrimination protection, and it remains an especially dangerous time for trans women of color. To better understand this historic and volatile moment, The Intercept’s Travis Mannon is joined by Gabriel Arkles, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU who worked on the transgender rights case, to unpack the implications of the pivotal Supreme Court decision, the ongoing threats to the trans community, and what the road ahead looks like in the fight for trans justice. Subscribe to our channel: https://interc.pt/subscribe Watch the trailer for “The Fight”: https://youtu.be/eK8Pj4kN0YQ

Featuring Gabriel Arkles (Senior Staff Attorney, LGBT & HIV Project of the ACLU), Dean Spade (Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Kate Mogulescu (Professor, Brooklyn Law School), Bianey Garcia (Lead Organizer, Make the Road NY), and LaLa Zanell (Lead Organizer, NYC Anti-Violence Project). Recorded November 3, 2017 at the conference Invisible No More: Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women & Women of Color in Troubled Times at Barnard College, NYC. For more information, see http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/invisible-no-more-resisting-police-violence-against-black-women-and-women-of-color-in-troubled-times/ As the pendulum swings toward intensified immigration enforcement, discredited drug war tactics, expansion of “broken windows” policing, rampant Islamophobia, and attacks on gender, sexual and reproductive liberation, the current political climate fuels police violence against Black women and women of color on every front. In this context, women of color’s experiences of policing – often invisible in broader debates – must in turn fuel our resistance. This conference was the first in a series of events taking place in the midwest, south, and west coast to explore the themes of Invisible No More and ongoing resistance to police violence against Black women and women of color.

33RD ANNUAL EDWARD V. SPARER SYMPOSIUM Friday, February 21, 2014 Panel 3: Women in Immigration | Fitts Auditorium Judy Rabinovitz, Esq., Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, New York, NY Mary Giovagnoli, Director of the Immigrant Policy Center of the American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C. Pooja Gehi, Esq., Director of Litigation at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, New York, NY