ABSTRACT
The members of our collective originally come from the Middle East. Hourig is Armenian, but born in Lebanon; Khadija is Kurdish from Syria; Shahrzad is Iranian; and Kumru is Kurdish hailing from Turkey. 1 Having lived in volatile regions before calling Canada home, all four of us have inherited memories of atrocities from our families, just as we have all lived through civil wars, military coups, bloody revolutions, and political repressions. It is these inherited and difficult lived memories that compose the fabric of our individual interdisciplinary work and the broader canvas of our collective work together.
