Wednesday Gatherings

Hoda Katebi is an Iranian-American writer, abolitionist organizer, and creative educator based between Chicago and the Bay. Her work has been hailed from the BBC to the New York Times to the pages of VOGUE and featured and cited in books, journals, and museums and galleries around the world. Hoda is the host of #BecauseWeveRead, a radical digital book club and discussion series mobilizing local communities with 25+ chapters globally; founding member of Blue Tin Production, an apparel manufacturing workers co-operative run by working class women of color setting new international standards in labor and sustainability within fashion supply chains; a national lead with Believers Bail Out, a bail fund using Zakat to bail Muslims from pretrial & immigration incarceration; anti-war organizing strategist with the No War Campaign; and most recently launched a campaign to build 63rd House, an 11,000sq foot radical community hub in one of the most disinvested and militarized communities in Chicago.

She has contributed to journals, books, and publications around the world including I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security (Manchester Press 2020), Newsweek, Washington Post, and Vogue. She is currently a student at Berkeley Law school. Hoda runs on saffron ice cream & colonizer tears.