Marwa is invested in storytelling as an act of transformation. Born from the communities of Omdurman, Sudan, Marwa recognizes the power of story-sharing to bequeath valuable ancestral knowledge and technologies. As a writer, producer and visual artist, she examines embodied narratives of movement, identity, and belonging across diasporic portals.
Marwa is the founder of Our Political Home (OPH), an art incubator for trans & queer African storytellers. Her work has been awarded fellowships through The LGBTQ Community Center of NY, The Laundromat Project, and We Are Family Foundation. Marwa’s current work examines the inquiry: What do I need to remember? Through centering queer narratives in her writing, visuals & performance, Marwa troubles traditional structures of Islamic & Nubian cosmologies.
You can find her work published in Blavity, Autostraddle, and USA Today. Marwa holds a BA in Political Science and Women and Gender Studies from Boston College.
