Anti-Oppression Book Club

Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1985. He is the author of Angry, Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir. He is presently working on a book of essays about how we come up against each other in the North American city.

From the publisher: 

Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia’s societal implosion, Mohamed Ali was taken first to the Netherlands by his stepmother, and then later on to Canada. Unmoored from his birth family and caught between twin alienating forces of Somali tradition and Western culture, Mohamed must forge his own queer coming of age.

What follows in this fierce and unrelenting account is a story of one young man’s nascent sexuality fused with the violence wrought by displacement.

Thursday, October 24th, 1-2 pm: https://uregina.libcal.com/event/3843011

Thursday, November 7th, 1-2 pm: https://uregina.libcal.com/event/3843014