The Clifton House Presents: Aaliyah Bilal and Safiya Sinclair in Conversation

How to Say Babylon and Temple Folk authors Safiya Sinclair + Aaliyah Bilal offer intimate portraits of life in and around Rastafari and Nation of Islam communities. Through vivid storytelling, these works jolt us into contending with the intricate and nuanced worlds of relational being.

In a conversation moderated by The Clifton House’s Director of Programs Joël Díaz, Sinclair and Bilal will consider how religion, spiritual practices, and the conversations surrounding them, shape and complicate the lives of Black practitioners and devotees that populate their work. Who informs what is and isn’t permissible? What whispers, hush tones, and shouts travel the distances between kin and the strangers among them to impede or make possible one’s living?

In what is set to be a remarkable dialogue, Sinclair and Bilal come together to discuss the emancipatory aspects of their literary works.

Please note: This event is free to the public, but registration…