Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Parables and Palestine” here.

This workshop is designed to analyze and apply Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents to the Palestinian liberation struggle and our daily lives. We will begin by mapping the context of the original parables of Jesus, then Octavia's parables and their parallels with Palestine, then each person will reflect on which parables resonate the most with them.

We will end with each applying our selected parable and "The Social Change Ecosystem Map," by Building Movement Project and Deepa Iyer to our lives for sustainable political organizing. Attendees should plan to read Octavia Butler's two parables before attending.

Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer, editor, and teacher from Kampala. They are a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and have published creative writing in over fifteen literary anthologies, magazines, journals, and reviews. They are the author of phases (Amistad, 2025). Tramaine works towards the total liberation of all oppressed people by any means necessary.