Join the Visibility:2024 campaign in welcoming to campus Bushra Rehman, author of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion (Macmillan, 2022)! For fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, this is an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community.

This program features a conversation with the author moderated by Dr. Mishka Murad, followed by an audience question and answer session.

Livestream on YouTube: http://dartgo.org/vis24-bushrarehman

A free copy of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion will be given to the first 50 undergraduate students in attendance of each event (Dartmouth ID required). Additional copies will be available for purchase on site from Still North Books.

Support WISE with your book purchase: Throughout April, Still North Books and Bar will donate 20% of sales of Bushra Rehman's books to WISE!

Bushra Rehman’s dark comedy, Corona, was chosen by the NY Public Library as one of its favorite books about NYC. She is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and author of the collection of poetry Marianna’s Beauty Salon, described by Joseph O. Legaspi as “a love poem for Muslim girls, Queens, and immigrants making sense of their foreign home–and surviving.” Her new novel, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, is a modern classic about what it means to be Muslim and queer in a Pakistani-American community was chosen as a Best Book and Editor’s Choice by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Good Morning America, Goodreads, The Chicago Review, BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, Lambda Literary, BookRiot, PopSugar, The AV Club, E! News, Ms. Magazine and more.

Dr. Mishka Murad was raised in two countries and has lived and worked in four others. Some of her childhood, and all her young adult life was spent in Pakistan where she was raised by parents who spoke different languages, had different faiths, came from different cultures, and socio-economic backgrounds. She has a BA from Mount Holyoke College in Gender Studies, a Masters in Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin, and a PhD in International Education from UMASS Amherst. Over the last 17 years she has taught courses in multiple disciplines in Pakistan, Thailand, Mexico, and the US. She currently works as the Associate Director of Greek Life, while balancing several other responsibilities on campus, and continuing to teach part-time. And she is thrilled to help out her friends and colleagues in OPAL who have put together this wonderful event.

Visibility:2024 is made possible with support from: Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL), Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity (IDE), Dean of the College, Collis Center for Student Involvement, Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault (SPCSA), Still North Books and Bar, and other campus partners.

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Visibility:2024 is Dartmouth’s annual student-led campaign to promote gender equity and combat power-based violence. All programs and events are free of charge and in physically-accessible venues. For more information and/or accommodations, email Assistant Dean Amanda Wong at opal.wag@dartmouth.edu.