Revolutions

<p><em>Revolutions</em> sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlappin shame and pleasure. In an extended conversation with Mona Hatoum’s artwork <em>+ and –</em>, <em>Revolutions</em> asks how young Arab women – who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib or not 3aib, shameful or acceptable – make and unmake their identities. Working between a Palestinian and Iraqi poetics drawing from artists like Mahmoud Darwish and Naseer Shamma and a feminist Canadian poetics inspired by Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Nicole Brossard, <em>Revolutions</em> spirals and collapses as we turn and re-turn around its circles.</p>