The Literary Salon for
Black Muslim Women

Cultivating a space for Black Muslim women to access one another’s worlds, metabolise experience together, and generate meaning that is communal rather than isolated. Literature is the portal through which transformation happens between us.

What is the Literary Salon?

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.

Gatherings take place online and in person across seasons. Each Salon centres a selected text and is shaped by shared etiquette, gentle prompts, and collective dialogue.

The Salon exists to create conditions where Black Muslim women can read together without hierarchy or extraction, allowing literature to open space for connection, imagination, and belonging.

  • “I enjoyed the feeling of belonging and being understood. Sharing my thoughts without fear or judgement. Seeing sisters that look like me.”

  • "I was part of the literary salon last year and I enjoyed it so much. I really got a lot out of our discussions and gained so much insight from the contributions of the sisters in the group. I feel like every discussion sharpened my intellect, grew my empathy and deepened my spirituality. "

  • "I have been part of it since its inception and it has been life changing for me. I have re-discovered my passion for literature and that has healed a part of me. I have also come to deeply appreciated the incredible sisterhood and have been inspired and built life long connections."