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		<title>nana</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[nana 2021 This short video (3:49 min) is a tribute to my grandmother, an unseen labourer, a gifted maker, and a poet at heart. Though societal gender norms denied her the chance to pursue poetry, she found her voice in textiles. From a young age, she poured her creativity into stitching: crafting clothes, dolls, oil [&#8230;]]]></description>
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							<p>This short video (3:49 min) is a tribute to my grandmother, an unseen labourer, a gifted maker, and a poet at heart. Though societal gender norms denied her the chance to pursue poetry, she found her voice in textiles. From a young age, she poured her creativity into stitching: crafting clothes, dolls, oil lamp covers, and pot holders from leftover fabrics. Among all her handmade pieces, it was the pot holders that she loved most, vibrant, original, full of character. She made hundreds, giving them away freely to neighbours, friends, and strangers alike. Her quiet artistry, shaped by constraint but never diminished by it, continues to shine, outlasting and outshining the creative legacy of any man in our family. This work honours her brilliance, her resilience, and the beauty she made by hand.</p>						</div>
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		<title>First lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First Lesson 2024 While analysing archival footage, a single frame caught my attention: a three-year-old girl holding a doll with an engraved, faceless expression. The footage, captured by a woman in the early 1990s in South Kurdistan, offers more than personal memory, it holds fragments of collective history. The doll, ordinarily a symbol of innocence [&#8230;]]]></description>
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							<p>While analysing archival footage, a single frame caught my attention: a three-year-old girl holding a doll with an engraved, faceless expression. The footage, captured by a woman in the early 1990s in South Kurdistan, offers more than personal memory, it holds fragments of collective history. The doll, ordinarily a symbol of innocence and play, became something else entirely: a vessel of silence, societal imprint, and inherited trauma. In my response, I created an installation using dolls with similarly engraved faces, each one stuffed with human hair. The doll in this context is no longer just an object of play, but a “thing” carrying the weight of cultural memory, gendered violence, and erasure. It reflects how facelessness becomes familiar, how absence is taught early, passed down, normalised. Through this work, I explore how such everyday materials can hold and transmit the unseen forces of patriarchy, offering a space for reflection on how identity, power, and silence are formed.</p>						</div>
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		<title>collage series</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Collage Series 2025 In this collage work, I cut out images of women’s hair from magazines and newspapers, layering them from the largest to the smallest, from light to dark, from straight to curled. Each strand, each texture, each colour becomes part of a collective archive of femininity, beauty, control, and commodification. Removed from their [&#8230;]]]></description>
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							<p>In this collage work, I cut out images of women’s hair from magazines and newspapers, layering them from the largest to the smallest, from light to dark, from straight to curled. Each strand, each texture, each colour becomes part of a collective archive of femininity, beauty, control, and commodification. Removed from their original contexts, the fragments of hair are no longer about the women they once adorned; they become symbols, disembodied yet deeply bodily. Hair, for me, has always been more than a material: it is a trace of the self, a marker of gender, memory, and identity. In my culture, it must be hidden. In media, it is endlessly displayed. By cutting and layering these images, I challenge both, the enforced invisibility and the objectified hypervisibility of women’s bodies. This piece speaks to the politics of representation, the fragmentation of female identity, and the quiet resistance of reassembling what has been cut apart.</p>						</div>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Masculine Hanger 2013 In this piece, I reimagine a traditional Kurdish textile, Shall, by knitting a 300 cm x 17 cm length of fabric entirely from my own hair. Human hair, particularly my own, is a recurring and potent material in my practice, embodying layered meanings of gender, politics, memory, abjection, and the uncanny. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
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							<p>In this piece, I reimagine a traditional Kurdish textile, <em data-start="197" data-end="204">Shall, </em>by knitting a 300 cm x 17 cm length of fabric entirely from my own hair. Human hair, particularly my own, is a recurring and potent material in my practice, embodying layered meanings of gender, politics, memory, abjection, and the uncanny. In my cultural context, hair is not only biologically natural but socially and religiously regulated, with women required to conceal it in public. By exposing and transforming my hair into a textile form, I challenge those imposed boundaries and engage with hair as both a personal trace and a political statement. The original <em data-start="774" data-end="781">Shall</em>, made from goat or sheep hair, was traditionally produced by women in Iraqi Kurdistan, who prepared the raw material and spun the thread, yet the final product—expensive men’s garments—was sold and claimed by men. Central to the production process is a small wooden tool called <em data-start="1060" data-end="1067">Tashi</em>, used exclusively by women to prepare the hair. In my work, the <em data-start="1132" data-end="1139">Tashi</em> is presented alongside the hair-fabric, reinforcing the tension between visible and invisible labour, nature and culture, gendered craft and economic value. Through this reimagining, the piece speaks to the erasure of women’s labour, the gendered history of textile production, and the power of reclaiming the body as material and message.</p>						</div>
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					<description><![CDATA[Masculine Hanger 2013 In this piece, I reimagine a traditional Kurdish textile, Shall, by knitting a 300 cm x 17 cm length of fabric entirely from my own hair. Human hair, particularly my own, is a recurring and potent material in my practice, embodying layered meanings of gender, politics, memory, abjection, and the uncanny. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
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							<p data-start="140" data-end="1479">In this piece, I reimagine a traditional Kurdish textile, <em data-start="197" data-end="204">Shall, </em>by knitting a 300 cm x 17 cm length of fabric entirely from my own hair. Human hair, particularly my own, is a recurring and potent material in my practice, embodying layered meanings of gender, politics, memory, abjection, and the uncanny. In my cultural context, hair is not only biologically natural but socially and religiously regulated, with women required to conceal it in public. By exposing and transforming my hair into a textile form, I challenge those imposed boundaries and engage with hair as both a personal trace and a political statement. The original <em data-start="774" data-end="781">Shall</em>, made from goat or sheep hair, was traditionally produced by women in Iraqi Kurdistan, who prepared the raw material and spun the thread, yet the final product, expensive men’s garments, was sold and claimed by men. Central to the production process is a small wooden tool called <em data-start="1060" data-end="1067">Tashi</em>, used exclusively by women to prepare the hair. In my work, the <em data-start="1132" data-end="1139">Tashi</em> is presented alongside the hair-fabric, reinforcing the tension between visible and invisible labour, nature and culture, gendered craft and economic value. Through this reimagining, the piece speaks to the erasure of women’s labour, the gendered history of textile production, and the power of reclaiming the body as material and message.</p>						</div>
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					<description><![CDATA[هەنار Hanar 2023 Henar is a video work that explores social issues through a female perspective, shedding light on the often-invisible women whose quiet resilience and achievements drive meaningful societal change. The project originated from a rare and overlooked archive: a collection of interview footage recorded in the early 1990s by an anonymous archivist known [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p data-start="307" data-end="510"><strong data-start="307" data-end="318"><em data-start="309" data-end="316">Henar</em></strong> is a video work that explores social issues through a female perspective, shedding light on the often-invisible women whose quiet resilience and achievements drive meaningful societal change.</p>
<p data-start="512" data-end="980">The project originated from a rare and overlooked archive: a collection of interview footage recorded in the early 1990s by an anonymous archivist known as <strong data-start="673" data-end="682">Runak</strong>. These interviews, filmed in an intimate and raw style, captured the voices of women who were seldom seen or heard in public discourse. Through a careful and sensitive editing process, the footage was reassembled to preserve the anonymity of the speakers while revealing their powerful narratives.</p>
<p data-start="982" data-end="1539">To protect the women’s identities, all faces and names were deliberately anonymised. Each interview was fully transcribed and translated into English, a meticulous and collaborative process that involved consulting with friends and family to ensure that cultural nuances, idioms, and emotional undertones were faithfully preserved. Recognising the challenges that might arise from culturally specific references, I created a small accompanying glossary to help international viewers navigate the complex traditions, expressions, and contexts within the work.</p>
<p data-start="1541" data-end="1837"><em data-start="1541" data-end="1552"><strong data-start="1542" data-end="1551">Henar</strong></em> is not only a tribute to the hidden women of history, but also a reflection on the politics of voice, memory, and visibility. It invites viewers to listen carefully to the echoes of untold stories, and to consider how history is shaped by those who are so often left out of the frame.</p>

<p>A Concise glossary which accompanied the Hanar- هەنار video: decoding the complexities of early age marriage in the dialogue, </p>

<p><strong><em>Betrothed</em></strong><em>: when the girl gets engaged at a very early age to a much older man. After she grows up, she must wait to get married to the man who is betrothed to her. She doesn&#8217;t have a choice but rather to wait for him. </em></p>

<p><strong><em>Divorced or get free</em></strong><em>: This is to ensure future freedom from the man to whom they are betrothed. It usually involves a commitment from the bride&#8217;s family to pay a certain amount of money to the groom&#8217;s family for their daughter to be released from the engagement. </em></p>

<p><strong><em>Elopement</em></strong><em>: When a couple decides to get married on their own and runs away to do so without their family&#8217;s permission. </em></p>

<p><strong><em>Exchange</em></strong><em>: When a couple marries by choice, the groom&#8217;s family is obligated to give a girl to the bride&#8217;s family in return. If the groom&#8217;s family doesn&#8217;t have a girl available, they must wait for a newborn baby girl. This child is then promised as a future bride to the bride&#8217;s family, a practice called ‘cradle betrothal.’ Additionally, if a family can&#8217;t afford a wife for their son, they may exchange their daughter with another family to secure a marriage for their son. </em></p>

<p><strong><em>Married</em></strong><em>: The young girls in the footage have no sexual relationship with the men they are married to, yet. This arrangement is similar to ‘mahr,’ but without the groom&#8217;s family paying the girl&#8217;s family. </em></p>

<p><strong><em>Vow</em></strong><em>: The family of the 5-month-old baby makes a contract with the groom&#8217;s family (whose son will be the husband of the baby girl when she grows up). This agreement obligates the baby to become a bride for their son when she reaches a certain age. </em></p>
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		<link>https://kanikamil.com/2025/06/08/1418/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 18:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bn بن ‘I once served as evidence of virginity, but now I stand in protest against this demeaning practice and expose the abusive moments in women&#8217;s lives’ (The Kham). The Kham is a white linen cloth used in a deeply rooted tradition meant to prove a bride’s virginity on her wedding night. Displayed to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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							<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">‘I once served as evidence of virginity, but now I stand in protest against this demeaning practice and expose the abusive moments in women&#8217;s lives’ (The Kham).</span></em></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400">The Kham is a white linen cloth used in a deeply rooted tradition meant to prove a bride’s virginity on her wedding night. Displayed to the groom’s family, it transforms a private moment into public scrutiny,</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> reinforcing harmful expectations around female purity and honour. This work challenges the violence of such practices and reclaims the narrative through personal and cultural reflection.</span></p>						</div>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kanikamil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 17:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My Hair Diary 2023 Since 2012, I have been collecting strands of my own hair. Over the years, the colour, texture, and volume have shifted, tracing the physical passage of time and the evolving stages of my life. This piece presents a decade-long archive of my hair, woven with personal and cultural meaning. Alongside this [&#8230;]]]></description>
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							<p data-start="193" data-end="481">Since 2012, I have been collecting strands of my own hair. Over the years, the colour, texture, and volume have shifted, tracing the physical passage of time and the evolving stages of my life. This piece presents a decade-long archive of my hair, woven with personal and cultural meaning.</p><p data-start="483" data-end="608">Alongside this visual diary is a written reflection on my relationship with hair, identity, and womanhood as a Kurdish woman.</p><p><em><span class="TextRun SCXW146602708 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW146602708 BCX0">For you, hair is just hair, but for me, hair is also women, pain, invisibility, destruction, silence, shatter, beat, hide, demolish, voiceless, fear, punishment, brutal, and at the end revolution, protest, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW146602708 BCX0">solidarity</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW146602708 BCX0"> and freedom.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW146602708 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}"> </span> In memory of Jina Amini.</em></p>						</div>
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		<link>https://kanikamil.com/2023/04/23/a-whisper-behind-the-grand-tour-2022/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kanikamil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 17:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Whisper Behind the Grand Tour 2022 The ‘Rethinking the Grand Tour’ project investigates the hidden and voiceless stories behind colonialism in art and culture in Britain. In this statement, I discuss the Hashmi dress, which holds personal meaning for me and tells a story about an object&#8217;s history and connection to people&#8217;s lives and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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							<p><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000">The ‘Rethinking the Grand Tour’ project investigates the hidden and voiceless stories behind colonialism in art and culture in Britain.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-weight: 400">In this statement, I discuss the Hashmi dress, which holds personal meaning for me and tells a story about an object&#8217;s history and connection to people&#8217;s lives and experiences. This highlights the power of objects to connect people across the world. I also aim to raise questions about the significance of nameless heritage and precious objects. The intervention seeks to demonstrate the hidden power structures that prevent voices from being heard regarding objects brought to this country through grand tours and colonialism. This project was the reason of changing the data base system and knowledge of the Manchester Art Gallery collection, you can read more about that change through this</span><a style="color: #000000" href="https://manchesterartgallery.org/event/rethinking-the-grand-tour/"> <span style="font-weight: 400">link</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000">The English translation of the Kurdish text on the wall;</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><i><span style="font-weight: 400">I’ve been meaning to ask you&#8230;</span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Do you know how many people’s stories, cultures, and histories are hidden within this Gallery’s collection? Have you considered the forms of power and bureaucracy which shape how these stories are told? Have you ever asked if and how the museum is willing to share these stories with you? </span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Have you considered whether there are objects in public collections like this one that needs urgently to be seen before they are lost? Lost to time, to forgetfulness, and to a lack of knowledge about their significance? Did you know many objects in this Gallery’s </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">collection have been</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400"> closed in dark and invisible places for a century? How long will these objects remain there? What is the point of having them if they are not seen? And, why can’t the people whose cultures from which they derive access them? </span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><i><span style="font-weight: 400">This box in front of you contains one of those objects. Can you imagine the Iraqi heritage entrapped within this box? I wish I had the power to open this box for you so that you might see some of my heritage &#8211; a beautiful Hashimi dress. </span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><i><span style="font-weight: 400">So, let me instead tell you a story about another Hashimi dress.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><i><span style="font-weight: 400">My mother had a very beautiful and precious one. I see it clearly in my mind’s eye. I remember all the details of the dress, its cut, its colour, and its fabric with perfect golden spangles. But after the imposition of economic sanctions on Iraq by powerful countries, including Britain, Iraqi people went through a difficult time and it was difficult to provide daily food. And so my mother had to sell her Hashmi dress to provide food for several days. Yes, she made lots of money from selling that dress, but we lost many irreplaceable memories too.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><i><span style="font-weight: 400">And now all these years later, I find another Hashimi dress. This time locked inside a box mislabelled with the word ‘Moorish’. The label itself is an act of barbarism that further marginalises and silences cultures, histories, people. To me, the word ‘Moorish’ might as well read ‘others’. </span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><i><span style="font-weight: 400">That is, the ‘Others’ from countries unrecognizable to the museum, the ‘others’ who don&#8217;t easily fit somewhere. The ‘Others’ who are subject to the power of museums. I wish this piece was in Iraq with my mother, aiding the memory of her beautiful Hashimi dress. Instead, it stays in this box, in company with the ‘Others’, each waiting for you to hear, see, and feel their stories.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000">The original Kurdish text on the wall,</span></p><p style="text-align: right"><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000">مەبەستمە لێت بپرسم…</span></p><p style="text-align: right"><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000">ئایا دەزانی چیرۆک و کولتوور و مێژووی چەند کەس لەناو کۆکراوەی ئەم گەلەرییەدا شاراوەن؟ ئایا ئەو فۆرمانەی دەسەڵات و بیرۆکراسیتان لەبەرچاو گرتووە کە چۆنیەتی گێڕانەوەی ئەم چیرۆکانە لە قاڵب دەدەن؟ تا ئێستا پرسیارت کردووە کە ئایا مۆزەخانەکە ئامادەیە ئەم چیرۆکانەتان لەگەڵدا باس بکات و چۆن؟</span></p><p style="text-align: right"><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000">بیرت لەوە کردۆتەوە کە ئایا لە کۆکراوە تایبەتەکانیاندا شتگەلێکی وەک ئەم پارچەیە هەیە کە پێویستە بەپەلە ببینرێت پێش ئەوەی لەدەست بچێت؟ لەدەستچون بەمانای کات و لەبیرچوونەوە و نەبوونی زانیاری لەسەر گرنگییان؟ ئایا دەزانی زۆرێک لە پارچەکانی ناو کۆکراوەی ئەم گەلەرییە بۆ ماوەی سەدەیەک لە شوێنە تاریک و نەبینراوەکاندا هەڵگیراون؟ تا کەی ئەم پارچانە لەوێ دەمێننەوە؟ ئەگەر نەبینرێن چ سوودێکی هەیە هەبونیان؟ بۆچی ئەو کەسانەی کە کولتوورەکانیان لێیەوە سەرچاوە دەگرن ناتوانن دەستیان پێ بگات؟</span></p><p style="text-align: right"><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000">ئەم سندوقەی لەبەردەمتدایە یەکێک لەو پارچانەی تێدایە. ئایا دەتوانی بیرلەمیراتی عێراقی بکەیتەوە کە لەناو ئەم سندوقەدا گیری خواردوە ؟ خۆزگە دەسەڵاتم هەبوایە ئەم سندوقەتان بۆ بکەمەوە، تا هەندێک لە میراتیەکانی عێراق ببینن &#8211; کە جلێکی جوانی هاشمیە.</span></p><p style="text-align: right"><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000">با لەبری ئەوە چیرۆکێکتان بۆ باس بکەم دەربارەی جلێکی تری هاشمی.</span></p><p style="text-align: right"><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000">دایکم یەکێکی زۆر جوان و بەنرخی هەبوو. تا ئێستا هەموو وردەکارییەکانی جلەکە و بڕینەکەی و ڕەنگەکەی و قوماشەکەی بە پولەکە ئاڵتونیەکانیەوە لەبەرچاومە. بەڵام دوای سەپاندنی سزای ئابووری بەسەر عێراقدا لەلایەن وڵاتانی زلهێزەوە، لەوانەش بەریتانیا، گەلی عێراق بە قۆناغێکی سەختدا تێپەڕی و دابینکردنی خۆراکی ڕۆژانە قورس بوو. بۆیە دایکم ناچار بوو جلە هاشمیەکەی بفرۆشێت تا بتوانێت خواردنی چەند ڕۆژێک دابین بکات. بەڵێ، ئەو پارەیەکی زۆری لە فرۆشتنی ئەو جلەدا بەدەستهێنا، بەڵام چەندین یادەوەریمان لەدەستدا کە جێگرەوەی نیە.</span></p><p style="text-align: right"><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000">ئێستاش دوای ئەم هەموو ساڵە، دانەیەکی ترم بینیەوە. ئەمجارەیان لەناو سندوقێکدا قفڵ کراوە و بە هەڵە وشەی ‘مووریش’ی لەسەر نوسراوە. خودی ناوەکە کردەوەیەکی بەربەرییەتە کە زیاتر کولتوورەکان، مێژووەکان، مرۆڤەکان پەراوێز دەخات و بێدەنگیان دەکات. بۆ من، ڕەنگە وشەی ‘مۆریش’ بە هەمان شێوە ‘ئەوانی تر’ بگرێتەوە.</span></p><p style="text-align: right"><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #000000"> ئەو ‘ئەوانی تر’ ەی کەسەر بەو ووڵاتانەن کە مۆزەخانەکە نایانناسێتەوە، ئەو ‘ئەوانی تر’ ەی کە بە ئاسانی لە شوێنێکدا جێیان نابێتەوە. ئەو ‘ئەوانی تر’ ەی کە ملکەچی دەسەڵاتی مۆزەخانەکانن. خۆزگە ئەم پارچەیە لە عێراق بووایە لای دایکم تا هاوکاری بیرهێنانەوەی یادگاریەکانی بوایە. بەڵام  هەر دەبێت لەم سندوقەدا بمێنێتەوە، لەگەڵ ‘ئەوانی تر’دا کە هەریەکەیان چاوەڕێی ئەوەن کە تۆ چیرۆکەکانیان ببیستیت و ببینیت و هەستیان پێبکەیت.</span></p>						</div>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Stranger at Home 2020 Created during the COVID-19 lockdown, The Stranger at Home explores how the pandemic intensified everyday sexism and normalized the ridicule of women through social media. As online spaces became primary sources of interaction, I noticed a surge of posts, jokes, and comics that turned women into subjects of mockery, highlighting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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