Speculative Oral Histories of Home with Eman Abdelhadi

Where do we belong when belonging itself is contested and what worlds can we write into existence?
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Where do we belong when belonging itself is contested? This workshop explores writing as a way of mapping the places — real, remembered, and imagined — that we call home. Drawing on the Bundist principle of doikayt (hereness), we’ll ground ourselves in the specific: the textures, languages, and contradictions of the places that shaped us. Then we’ll turn toward the horizon: what does home look like after liberation? What worlds are we writing into existence, and what are the milestones along the way? Through grounding exercises rooted in lived experience and speculative prompts oriented toward revolutionary possibility, we’ll explore how writers hold the past and the future on the page simultaneously.
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Eman Abdelhadi is an Palestinian-Egyptian American academic, activist and writer who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, religion and politics. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the University of Chicago, where she researches American Muslim communities. She is co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 – 2072.

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