Saturday October 29th 3pm
Black Muslim Community Circle – exploration of what it means to be Black Muslim Woman in the UK
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-muslim-community-circle-tickets-422562324287
Join us in exploring what it means to be a Black Muslim Woman in the UK. This interactive workshop will consist of a range of creative individual and group activities exploring the Black Muslim identity. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate dialogue and reflection within a context of mutual trust and creative exploration.
April 22nd 2022
Realising our power as POC: How to unleash our potential
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Join us for a session led by Umm Eesa, and in partnership with Islamic Relief where we collectively explore what it means to realise our potential as Black and Brown people.
Umm Eesa is a qualified Primary school teacher and ex head teacher in a London PRU. As a network lead for @WomenEdEngland, she strives to encourage (Muslim and Black) educators to be their most authentic selves and lead through a values driven perspective.
She now resides in Birmingham trying to succeed at her hardest role to date; an unapologetic Muslim upon the Quran and Sunnah, a righteous wife and mother to a rambunctious toddler.
Event is open to Black and Brown /POC.
22nd January 2022
Alafia Project Launch: Black Muslim Mental Health
Exploring Black Muslim Mental Health and commemorating the launch of a mental health project led by volunteer Kawthar Alli.
Alafia Project Launch is an event to commemorate the launch of a Black Muslim Forum project led by volunteer Kawthar Alli who will be providing over the course of the next year an email consultancy service for members of the Black Muslim community.
Kawthar Alli is a qualified mental health advocate and counselling psychologist in training.
This event will be a panel discussion where panellists Rashid Rose, Summayyah Saqiq-Ojibara, Jaymain Parkes and Sh. Abdulla Hasan will be exploring the issues around Black Muslim mental health and how intersection of race and religion play a part uniquely in the Black Muslim psyche.
Register:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alafia-project-launch-black-muslim-mental-health-tickets-241746820247
February-March 2021
Nations and Tribes: Striving Towards Racial Justice in British Muslim communities
This three part course was delivered twice- in February and March 2021 and will be an annual programme to educate the non-black Muslim community on becoming actively anti-racist.
October 2020
Islam and Racial Justice Project is co-delivered by Black Muslim Forum in partnership with MCB, Everyday Muslim and the Civil Service Muslim Network: This is a national annual two part conference as well as a later re-education programme educating Muslims in the UK on how to be actively anti-racist and uphold social justice in a personal capacity.
Link to annual conference literature: https://mcb.org.uk/general/islam-racial-justice-conference-23-24-october/
BLACK MUSLIM FORUM 