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Genocide Accountability Participation Solutions

Theatre

Working with Ezidi people to co-develop new theatre, through sounds, images and performances in participatory workshops.

The victim-survivor complex is over-reliant on essentialist binaries that do not account for multifaceted Ezidi identities—as with how ethnicity intersects with gender, socio-economic status, age, among other features of identities. These gaps perpetuate stereotypes, and limit an understanding of Ezidi experiences and lived realities.

Following through with our previous policy briefing, Trifold Agenda for Action: Prevent-Punish, Support and Empower Trifold Agenda for Action [PDF], we seek to empower Ezidi participants through opportunities for mentoring, apprenticeships and co-produced and inclusive research, educational and creative projects paying due attention to internal hierarchies and social expectations.

Spotlit actress on a dark stage, wearing a red cardigan and headscarf, and clutching a book to her chest.© Sohaya Visions

Through sounds, images and performances in participatory workshops, we address these challenges by participating with Ezidi people to co-develop new theatre, working with innovative and intercultural theatre professionals, Mukul and Ghetto Tigers, who along with Sohaya Visions, previously produced a play on Ezidi lives and the genocide, Mabruka’s Lament by Marc Littman.