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Oral History with Leila Sujir (2014)

Leila Sujir is an artist that first worked at Desh Pardesh in the late 1980s. Her work India Hearts Beat screened in Toronto, and she was invited to discuss it. She felt that Desh was a space of both validation and contention. She argues it gave…

Tags: Desh Pardesh, diaspora, Dreams of the Night Cleaners, Identity politics, immigration, memory, oral history, racism, Rosemary Brown, SAVAC, South Asian, South Asian Visual Arts Centre, Tony Morrison, Toronto

reclaiming the paki faggot

F0184-01-002-005 - Clipping from XTRA! newspaper December 1992 issue.jpeg

Newspaper article by Gordon Bowness in XTRA! newspaper December 1992 issue about reclaiming derogatory terms in the South Asian community.

Tags: Anthony Mohamed, diaspora, South Asian, Toronto, Xtra!

Screenshot from Oral history with Anthony Mohamed (1 November 2019)

A screenshot from the oral history interview with Anthony Mohamed in 2019.

Tags: Anthony Mohamed, diaspora, South Asian, Toronto

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