āmna

hi i’m amna mohamed ali

a decolonial care practitioner and fugitive worldbuilder.

welcome my little corner on the internet + contribution to the revolution 

i’m a an african queer spiritual activist who believes in our divine sovereignty in a culture that needs us disempowered and in chronic stress – and as someone in active journey of recovery from intergenerational patriarchal, racial and religious trauma, i centered my life around trauma healing and dedicated my efforts toward personal and collective liberation.

born in exile, i knew what it was like to be othered quite early. some of my story is in This Arab is Queer

i was always fascinated with the human body. I started giving my parents foot rubs and back massages as a kid and found myself intuitively knowing the direction of the striations of the muscles. in my 20s i began practicing yoga, crossfit and bodybuilding and obtained my qualifications to be a personal trainer, level 2 crossfit coach, and boxercise coach, all while working for dubai government for 9 years (2010 – 2019).  

in 2020 i founded the black arabs collective after the brutal murder of george floyd. i was still living in the uae, where i was born, raised, and traumatized. witnessing the global conversation about race reach the arab world; the conversation failed to address the racism within the arab world that was ingrained in the language and culture. i founded the black arabs collective as a mirror and a space to highlight the invisibilized experience of being black and arab.

in 2021, while living in ethiopia, i started working with different psychedelics and plant medicines to work through my own histories of trauma and violence. since moving to canada i received training and guidance to be a practitioner of mindfulness meditation, holotropic breathwork, psychedelic assisted therapy through different lineages and programs.

I also served as the executive director of a registered nonprofit serving global south 2SLGBTQ folks. in my work within community spaces, i realized that the way out of these systems of power is not through more institutions, confirming what audre lorde taught us: “the master’s tools will never dismantle the masters house”. I learned that the work of dismantling empire is fundamentally an internal one. and so my lived experience and healing journey flowered into my spiritual practice and lifestyle, which fruited into my practice.

i’m here to hold space for a self moderated, self guided, self owning praxis.

thanks be to the ancestors

my writing – substack