lisa minerva luxx

lisa minerva luxx is an award-winning poet, playwright, political activist and essayist of British Syrian heritage. In 2021 luxx released Fetch Your Mother’s Heart, an innovative and critically acclaimed poetry collection. They have written three verse plays including what the dog said to the harvest (an experimental opera-installation-performance for decolonial climate justice), and their Channel 4 short film Lesbian. won five awards including Best LGBTQ short at Independent Shorts Awards. They are a Gold certified lyricist, signed to Maison Arts record label in LA. In 2020, luxx founded Nehna Hon, an anti-racist collective in Beirut to set-up free daycare, job support, rent and food assistance plus urgent action for victims of the kafala system (human trafficking and slave trade). Before that they were co-founder of eLaa Beirut, an international organisation of mental health professionals; the organisation supported mental health services in Lebanon after the Beirut Blast. They are also an active part of Palestine Action in the UK.