Gatherings
Driven by deep understandings of the human need for belonging and togetherness, Dr Kabba has masterfully harnessed the power of learning and place-making to curate catalyzing spaces for people to come together, engage, and create transformative experiences.
Over the last three years, Dr Kabba has focused on designing and facilitating spaces for women from different walks of life.
The Literary Salon for Black Muslim Women
The Black Muslim Women’s Literary Salon is a space for collective reading, reflection, and re-imagination.
It brings Black Muslim women together to read works by Black women and to engage those texts slowly, relationally, and in conversation. The Literary Salon centres our racial, cultural, spiritual, and intellectual lives in order to make space for voice, healing, and meaning-making.
The Salon is not a book club organised around speed, mastery, or critique. It is a shared practice of reading as a way of witnessing one another’s lives, exploring meaning, and sitting with complexity without urgency or performance.
Year
2023/2024/2025/2026
Gathering on God’s Names
Current
Gathering on God’s Names (GOGN) is a virtual space for Muslim women that is dedicated to exploring the meanings and applications of the 99 names of Allah. These gatherings are co-designed, developed, and held with an intention to destabilise authority centric models of learning in Muslim spaces. This approach seeks to create a space for the expression and sharing of knowledge from learned and lived experiences, enabling our voices to be equally heard.
GOGN arose from conversations around the challenges experienced in Muslim learning spaces, a desire to return to basics, and a longing to be in community with people who are searching for depth in understanding and practical ways to embody our learning.
Year
2023/2024/2025/2026
Past
Summer of Words
Inspired by On Being’s podcast, Poetry Unbound, Summer of Words is a bi-monthly gathering of women in Oxford reading and reflecting over poems written by women.
Year
2023
Intentional Tasking Community
An intentional tasking space for Muslim women to commune and complete their personal tasks, collectively. Connect with Muslim women in our global community who are looking for a communal space to get things done.
Year
2020