This special edition of Writing Club is a collaboration between Wendy’s Subway and MoMA. The same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once online via Zoom.
Kaur Alia Ahmed facilitates Writing Club focusing on artworks in Gallery 212: What Is Parasite and What Is Kin? Inspired by Ahmed’s artistic practice and his book Cursive Paradise (2025), published by Wendy’s Subway, we’ll experiment with writing as a means of drawing connections between selfhood, technology, and gender through the lenses of artworks that explore transformation. This session will take place in person at MoMA.
Registration
Register for Writing Club (in person at MoMA)
The second session in this series takes place online via Zoom. If the online event is more accessible for you, please register for that session.
Kaur Alia Ahmed is an artist and writer living in New York. He is interested in destabilizing language, handling it in ways similar to ink, skin, light. His work has been presented at Interstate Projects, 77 Mulberry, Alyssa Davis Gallery, island gallery, Entrance Gallery, and the Drawing Center. His poems can be found in the Poetry Project Newsletter, Baest Journal, Spoil, BOMB, and Rhizome. Cursive Paradise, his first book, was published by Wendy’s Subway in 2025.
Wendy’s Subway is a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. WS supports emerging artists and writers in making experimental, urgent work and creates alternative modes for learning and thinking in community. Wendy’s Subway is dedicated to encouraging creative, critical, and discursive engagement with arts and literature.
About Writing Club
Writing Club, an ongoing program at MoMA, is part of the Museum’s Artful Practices for Well-Being initiative, which offers ideas for connectedness and healing through art.
Accessibility
Seating options include gallery stools, chairs with backs, and gallery benches. Wheelchairs and rollators are available by request at all Museum entrances, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Guide dogs and other trained service animals are always welcome.
All-gender restrooms are located on Floor 2.
CART captioning and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.
For more information on accessibility at MoMA, please visit moma.org/Visit/Accessibility.
Major funding is provided by the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.