• Youtube
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Rss
Bay Area Book Festival
  • About
    • What We Do
    • Meet Our Team
    • Mission and Values
    • Event Archive
    • Contact Us
    • Jobs
  • 2025 Festival
    • Festival Home
    • All Speakers
    • Full Schedule
    • Headliners
    • Family Day
    • Writers’ Workshops
    • Democracy Dialogues
    • Inside Ideas
    • Bookworm Block Party
    • Exhibitors
    • Bookseller Partners
  • Accessibility
  • Events
  • Affinity Lit Collectives
  • Media
    • Press Room
    • Event Archive
    • Podcasts
    • Videos
    • Newsletter
  • Get Involved
    • Sign Up for Newsletter
    • Become a Friend of the Festival
    • Sponsor Us
    • Volunteer
    • First Edition Club
    • Job Opportunities
  • Donate
  • Search
  • Menu Menu
Photo credit: Michael Colgan

Yaffa AS

Mx. Yaffa is a an author and storyteller that paves the way for us to imagine utopia through every word. Having shared their story with over 300,000 audience members at speaking events globally.

Mx. Yaffa is an acclaimed disabled, autistic, trans, queer, Muslim, and indigenous Palestinian individual who has received multiple awards for their transformative work around displacement, decolonization, equity, and centering the lived experiences of individuals most impacted by injustice.

Mx. Yaffa is the Executive Director of Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), as well as the founder of several non-profits and community projects.

Mx. Yaffa is an engineer, death and birthing doula, peer support specialist, consultant, and artist.

2025 Bookworm Blockparty
Speaker - Women, Cyborgs, Revolutionary Petunias, and Other Creatures
https://www.baybookfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3-Andrea-Ramos-Campos.jpg 1080 720 Andrei Verzea https://www.baybookfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/logo-180x180.png Andrei Verzea2025-03-31 10:27:102025-03-31 10:27:10Yaffa AS
© Copyright - 2025 Bay Area Book FestivalSite by WebCherry
Scroll to top