Grieving for the Mothers and Children Lost to Genocide

A Benefit Fundraiser for the Inash AlUsra Association*
With Melissa Anran Fan, Nada Samih-Rotondo, and Dr. Suzanne Mungalez
Sunday, May 12, 4–6PM PST
On Zoom
Participants will receive a Zoom link the day prior
Please register to receive a recording of the program
Cost: Registration is free, with a suggested donation of $20-$100, please pay what you can. 100% of proceeds will go to Inash AlUsra Association’s Child Sponsorship Program. This is a fundraiser in solidarity with the mothers and children of Palestine. 

“Always grief more than enough/ a heart-load for each of us” - Mary Oliver

“We perform grieving as mutiny” - Bayo Akomolafe

Join us this Mother’s Day as we come together to grieve the mothers and the children lost to genocide. We offer this public prayer and invocation as mothers in solidarity with all mothers across the globe and in honor of our collective grief. 

This workshop will include:

• Guided somatics and expressive arts grief practices with Melissa Anran Fan
• A writing exercise and reading by Nada Samih-Rotondo, from her latest book All Water Has Perfect Memory 
• A surprise offering with Dr. Suzanne Mungalez

*Inash AlUsra Association is a non-profit charitable women’s organization founded in 1965 by a group of Palestinian women. For more than 55 years, the organization has provided education and social services to women and families all across Palestine, including placing orphans with Palestinian families under their Child Sponsorship Program. With the ongoing genocide in Palestine sharply increasing the number of orphans in Gaza, they have a current campaign to reach the goal of sponsoring 5000 children.

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS

Melissa Anran Fan (she/they) is an expressive arts and somatics practitioner, community organizer, writer, and cultural worker living in service of collective liberation. She lives in unceded Ohlone land in the East Bay of California and is an unschooling mama to twins.

Nada Samih-Rotondo (she/her) is a multi-genre Palestinian American educator, mother, and author of a multigenerational memoir titled All Water Has Perfect Memory. She lives in Providence Rhode Island with her husband and three children.

Dr. Suzanne Mungalez (she/they) is a Black, queer, Congolese American mother, psychotherapist, birthworker, and friend. She works with folks across the country as they prepare for or find healing in major identity transitions, various forms of trauma, and grief in its many forms.