Life is a Gift (2022)
Gloria Joy Kazuko Muhammad & Mu Knowles
(3 min) what does it mean to be liberated? to be free? for yourself and those you love? in life is a gift, mu knowles (born & raised on the hilltop in tacoma, wa) takes us on a journey through these questions.
About the Directors
gloria joy kazuko muhammad (joy) is a writer, teaching artist, and filmmaker based in puyallup tribe territory (tacoma, wa). joy enjoys using art as a way to connect, collaborate, and heal. she believes art can be a gateway for reimagination and creating the change we want to see in ourselves, community, and world.
Mu Knowles is an Afro-Indigenous trans non-binary queer liberation steward born and raised in the historically Black Hilltop Neighborhood in Puyallup Tribal Territory (Tacoma, WA). In their Afro-Indigenous Futurist energy work, artistry, filmmaking, scholarship and creative writing, Knowles acknowledges and reckons with the way in which we approach and are able to transform our shared-reality and historiography through reclamation of agency, narrative, creativity and storytelling.
