MARWA ELTAHIR

SUDAN / UNITED STATES, 26

Project: Our Political Home
Pronouns: She/Her

Marwa is invested in storytelling as an act of resistance. Born from the deserts of Oumdurman, Sudan, she recognizes the power of story-sharing to bequeath ancestral knowledge and technologies. Our Political Home, an interactive portal incubating LGBTQ+ African storytellers across the diasporas, uses digital curriculums, in-person workshops, and community activations to offer a space for LGBTQ+ African artists to reimagine home. 

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How does your personal story influence your work on Our Political Home? 

As a Black, Muslim, Queer woman coming of age in the suburbs of Virginia, I found myself asking: where am I? I seldom found stories that reflected the intersections of my lived experience. Writing became a ritual by which to understand my place in the world. I nurtured this practice and discovered the power of language to make the invisible visible.

“Language dictates the parameters of our reality, how our stories are told and who tells them shapes how we see ourselves in the world.”

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