A food culture column through the lens of diaspora, race, and queerness published online and in print at The Uniter. Commemoration and creative intervention: Chefs politicize space January 31, 2019 “When diasporic chefs create meals, they are creating moments of home to share with others. This act of sharing and consumption is then elevated…
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 to heal new anywhere but here The thing about tumbleweeds is they don’t find their…
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 its goal of representing the impact of migration, displacement, and interpersonal and cultural…
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NOVEMBER 26, 2017 The quiet tragedy of forgetting your first language ‘Over time, without really noticing, we all lost our mother tongue.’ Andi Sharma, November 24, 2017 “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 our…
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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, the conference and offsite events saw over 200 local and…
Published in From the Root, “Home,” issue 4 SPRING, 2017 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 for…
Published in Crossings, No. 1 (2017) Abstract Selfies are powerful communicators embodying a mediated understanding of the self, curating identity through social media. Editing and repurposing a selfie in art-making creates more symbolic representation, as seen in the work of Art Hoe Collective working at the intersection of race and gender oppression. Theoretical concepts of…
Read more (Sk)Inquiring Self(ie)—Representations: Aesthetic Agency, Ethics, & the Other
Published in Death Flails, “Romance,” issue 3 DECEMBER, 2016 I am encapsulated. I am within vastness And I am vast. My mark outstretches me I am here and I am now and now is here But now is also there there there Blind faith We rely I am overwhelmed by all decision making…
Published in Dear Journal, issue 2 SUMMER, 2016 I learn, I read, I listen, I talk, I write, I wear, I do, I teach I am, I am, I am Everyday I mourn myself I recreate myself I negotiate who I will be embarrassed of who I’ve been though I know there is no…
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Racial exclusion in Winnipeg’s queer communities DECEMBER 3, 2014 Trigger Warning: blackface, racism, violence Disclaimer: I am speaking as a queer person of colour but from a privileged white-passing, straight-passing, cis, able-bodied perspective. I would also like to acknowledge that people of colour, lgbttq*, and queer are not meant to essentialize the people within…
A practical guide to having your festival fun without ruining someone else’s JUNE 3, 2015 Sex, drugs, and dressing up. Most people will agree that these are a huge part of music festivals, whether or not they choose to partake in them. Festivals, especially the ones people camp at, draw a huge party crowd of…
