A food culture column through the lens of diaspora, race, and queerness published online and in print at The Uniter. ‘They didn’t know we were seeds’: care and pleasure in difficult times September 19, 2019 Despite a weariness toward personal, familial, political and economic turmoil, I am energized by the capacity for food and other…
Poetic essay published in Return Atacama (2019), Gesture Series, HemiPress, 2019. This body a shelter This body a shelter; a site of memory. Intergenerational inheritance is the beauty and the pain of displaced peoples—they say you can write stories from bone memory. Back when we came to Canada I thought I learned this place quick. It was all cute spanish…
Published in Prairie Fire: a Canadian magazine of New Writing, Summer 2018, Vol 39, No. 2 Mom said we come from the mountain people in Beqaa valley and I wonder if all those winds wrapped her tumbleweed here Mom says she will retire somewhere hot to rest easy and give her skin the sun it needs…
Exhibition review of Since We Last Spoke for the Flux Writing Program. Flux Gallery, 27 October – 4 November 2017 JANUARY 9, 2018 SINCE WE LAST SPOKE; AN INVITATION Sophie Sabet’s Since We Last Spoke is a three-channel video installation, self-described as “exploring the intricacies and tribulations of a modern Iranian-Canadian home.” With…
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A response to Andi Sharma’s The quiet tragedy of forgetting your first language, CBC, November 24, 2017. ‘Over time, without really noticing, we all lost our mother tongue.’ “We walk around holding two worlds within us and the war that rages inside of us is fought quietly and alone. We spend our days at school hiding…
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Published in Paperwait, Volume 20, aceartinc (2017-18), p. 63-64. Christina Hajjar Salt Stain Video installation Videography and editing by Hassaan Ashraf 2018 Salt Stain Mom picked so many grapeleaves last spring. She reconnected with a cousin who owns a Lebanese restaurant and pickles the leaves to use through the year. She decided to pick an…
Published in Volume 72, Number 8 of The Uniter (November 2, 2017) Survival, celebration, representation NOVEMBER 2, 2017 On October 20-22, 2017, the University of Winnipeg hosted a weekend conference, “C2C: Two-Spirit (2S) & QPOC (queer People of Colour): A Call to Conversation with LGBT and Allies.” Organized by Drs. Chantal Fiola and Sharanpal Ruprai,…
Published in From the Root, “Home,” issue 4, Spring, 2017 Kitchen Pedagogy In the kitchen she tells me stories what it was like Her narratives interrupted by life stuff – the baby, the phone, her sub-stories intermittent with her instructions I am tunnel vision: pen. paper. To record her hand’s memory Of ratios…
