Believers Bail Out

• Chicago, IL

• June 2018

Nabiha Maqbool, Maryam Kashani, and Su'ad Abdul Khabeer at a fundraiser iftar for Believer's Bail Out.

Notes: Believer's Bail Out (BBO) is a community-led bail fund freeing Muslims from pre-trial and immigration incarceration founded in March 2018. I am among the co-founders, who are a group of Muslims from a variety of backgrounds with a shared understanding of the inhumanity of mass incarceration and shared commitment to abolition. At the time, I knew Umi's death pushed me to dive headfirst into getting BBO off the ground. She had done SO much in her life, and I was looking at my own and it paled in comparison. However, it was not until digging into Umi's archive that I realized how much my involvement is a direct extension of her work against the Prison Industrial Complex.