Her Story Is
Founded in 2017, "HER STORY IS" is a collective led by independent women writers and artists from the US and Iraq, promotes projects aimed at expanding linguistic, artistic, and cultural boundaries in response to global conflict and its aftermath, with a focus on centralizing the experience of women. Founded in 2010, HER STORY IS produces exhibitions, anthologies, scholarly articles, panel discussions, theater productions, and a semi-annual residency in the Middle East. We believe our process transforms established power structures, creates new grounds for learning, and builds a community of equals across borders.
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Led by San Francisco-based poet, Beau Beausoleil, The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, is a project of remembering and solidarity, instigated by the March 5, 2007 bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street (street of booksellers) in Baghdad, Iraq. Since then, there have been annual readings and exhibitions in cities around the US, Iraq and often elsewhere (UK). As Beau says, the work is a lament for lives lost as will as a celebration of the power of books and reading. The March 2021 effort, organized by Iraqi + US Reconciliation Project and Her Story Is produced the following video. Already, plans are afoot for March 5, 2022, the fifteenth anniversary of the bombing.
Ongoing- Adapting a short story by one of our Iraqi colleagues into a play, working title "No More Stories of Seagulls!"