Talks
Reading: The Fuel of Nations
In Farsi, multiracial Iranians are called do-rageh. There are other names, less savory, but this one is my favorite. In English, the literal translation is two-blooded. This means that I—a queer multiracial Iranian—am doubled. My duality is rooted in the fraught political history between the United States, the country where I was born, and Iran, the homeland of Baba, my father.
To Remain Human: Moving Beyond Flight or Freeze—It's Time to Write
How do we continue to write into the horror and despair of the present moment, to engage with our whole self, instead of shutting down? So many of us can't write when we are confronted with genocide, fascism and the anthropecene. Yet, it is often by transforming the difficult and the impossible through the written word that we come closer to—if not hope, then a way of holding—an embodied grief that offers witness and struggle.