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Powerfully translating ancestral wisdom, connection, and memory into present expressions of healing and hope, moving across time and space to navigate a difficult present and envision a better future, author and artist Kristin Anahit Cass looks to our ancestral roots to explore the future in her debut book Reparations of the Heart. Reparations of the Heart presents a vibrant tapestry of essays, stories, poems, quotes and detailed, often surreal images, exploring questions of identity, community, healing and hope, through an inclusive futurist lens. Centering diverse diaspora communities and feminist and queer communities in solidarity with indigenous communities everywhere, this book transcends ethnic, gender and other divides to forge a compassionate future with room for all. Using photography to create beautiful portraits of a diverse past, present and future, Cass and her subjects imagine a global futurism of all kinds-Queer Futurism, SWANA Futurism, Indigenous Futurism, Feminist Futurism and more, because no matter where our ancestors were from, they sacrificed and made the way for us to exist in this world, creating a legacy for us of creativity and loving generosity that we can carry into the future.

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""a new and powerful artistic voice, one that speaks to today's most pressing issues, including the ongoing war being waged globally against First Peoples by colonizing powers. Cass and her work implicitly understand that this colonization attacks both the person and the land they live on."" Christopher Atamian, Writer, Director, Gallerist, and Curator, Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice ""stories of transmission, cultivation, and survival...seek to fill the voids left by wounds, while opening up each scar to new possibilities that refuse to see them as an end in and of themselves...simultaneously in dialogue with ancestors, hard contemporary realities, and dreams for a future aligned with communal hopes and aspirations."" Hrag Vartanian, Editor-in-chief and Co-founder, Hyperallergic ""Reparations of the Heart makes visible the power of transmuting ancestral memory into rich, euphoric, and interconnected life. Kristin Anahit Cass' images are transportative, taking us to the internal realms where our ancestors, current realities, and possible futures mingle outside of time."" Levon Kafafian, Detroit-based Weaver and Storyteller ""colonialism, genocide and displacement give way to self-determination, restitution and joy...By rewriting history, Cass presents an alternative vision for a better future. This practice in imagination interweaves the past and the future in the present by offering hope to the descendants of survivors of genocide and colonialism"" Lillian Avedian, The Armenian Weekly ""a photo album that hosts love...In Anahit's studio: subjects are loved ones whose affection for each other determines their poses; props are photographs carried between the grips of our ancestors; backdrops are lands we steward in our dreams; and apertures are clocks for queer time."" Katie Giritlian, Paper Cameras Press

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Kristin Anahit Cass is a futurist writer and multidisciplinary artist working in photography, video, sculpture and other media telling stories that imagine the future, connect with ancestors, and envision a better world. As Hyperallergic noted, Cass's work ""recognizes the lived experience of trauma, yet owns the ability of humans to individually and collectively reframe that experience in their hearts to make way for reparations."" In addition to her arts education, Cass has advocated for social justice in her career as a lawyer. She is a founder of the LGBTQ platform Entanik (Family), actively supporting creatives in the global community.Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the US and beyond. She is the author of Reparations of the Heart: Toward a Compassionate Futurity. Her Borderlands Under Fire project was a finalist for the 2018 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. Cass is a graduate of the University of Chicago. You can find more information at https: //kristincass.com/ Araxie Cass is a writer and editor. Their published work is mostly nonfiction, but they have recently been delving into the realms of science fiction and poetry, and hope to share more of that soon. They are also an editor and organizer of Azad Archives, where they love to create inclusive spaces for Armenian creatives around the world. Tamar Marie Boyadjian is a poet, fantasy author, essayist, translator, educator, and editor. She is the author of it is what it is (Yerevan: Antares), a book of concrete poetry in Western Armenian and the first book of poetry to be published in the language by a US born author. She is also the author of the first fantasy series to appear in Western Armenian, The Mepe & the Dragon (Los Angeles: Arpi Publishing, 2024). TMB is also a medievalist and a lover of the medieval world. She pursued this passion and earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA in 2010. She has published and lectured extensively on the premodern Mediterranean, particularly drawing attention to the prominent place of the medieval Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. Her monograph, The City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2018) was the recipient of the NAASR Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies. From 2020-2024, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the foremost periodical of Armenology in the Western Hemisphere, the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies.

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