The Daily Feminist

Poet, producer and presenter, Jill Abram grew up in Manchester, travelled the world and now lives in Brixton. She has performed her poems across the UK and beyond, including at Ledbury, StAnza, and Verve Poetry Festivals and in Paris, New York, Chicago and online. Print publications include The Rialto, Magma, Poetry Scotland, Poetry Wales and The North, and online at Ink Sweat &Tears, And Other Poems and Harana. She produces and presents a variety of poetry events, including the Stablemates series of poetry and conversation, and was Director of the influential collective Malika’s Poetry Kitchen for 12 years. Jill’s debut pamphlet, Forgetting My Father, will be published by Broken Sleep Books in May 2023.

Rosie Jackson is a widely published creative writing tutor living in Devon. The author of eleven books of prose and poetry, she has a background in university teaching, and in working with the creative arts in health care. Rosie enjoys collaborating with other writers, artists, film-makers and photographers and has won many awards. Her spiritual life has led to prolonged stays in India and to a Sufi training in the United States. Her new collection, Love Leans over the Table (Two Rivers Press, 2023), celebrates both human and divine love. Moniza Alvi writes: ‘These are rare, nourishing poems, open and vulnerable, spiritually aware and with an acute sense of beauty and struggle.’

Dr Sofia Rehman is an independent scholar specialising in Islam and Gender, an author, and educator. She is the founder and co-ordinator of Leeds Lit Book Club which is now in its 8th year. During the global pandemic she launched the Islam and Gender read alongs in which she facilitates readings of academic texts penned by Muslim female scholars in conversation with a global virtual audience and has recently been featured by Vogue Arabia, Refinery29 and The Independent. She is the author of A Treasury Aisha bint Abu Bakr (Kube, 2023) and the forthcoming title Engendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers (Oxford University Press, 2023). She is a contributor to a number of anthologies including Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration edited by Lia Shimada, Cut From the Same Cloth? edited by Sabeena Akhtar and the upcoming Tilted Axis Press anthology, Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation.

Hafsa Lodi is an American-Muslim journalist who has been covering fashion and culture in the Middle East for more than a decade. She has a BA in journalism from Ryerson University (Toronto) and an MA in Islamic law from SOAS, University of London. She writes frequently about the intersection of faith, fashion and feminism, and her work has appeared in The Independent, Refinery29, Business Insider, Teen Vogue, Vogue Arabia, Stylist, Glamour, The National, Luxury, Mojeh, Grazia Middle East, GQ Middle East, gal-dem and more.

Hafsa’s debut non-fiction book Modesty: A Fashion Paradox, commissioned and published by Neem Tree Press, launched at the 2020 Emirates Literature Festival. It explores the causes, controversies and key players of the global modest fashion movement from cultural, religious, political and feminist lenses. Harper’s Bazaar US called it “a well-researched and tender portrait of the politics and people behind a movement.”

Remona Aly is a journalist and broadcaster. She writes for The Guardian, is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought and a presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Something Understood. She is also an editor and podcast host for various platforms.