Gita Hashemi

Iranian-born Gita Hashemi is an award-winning artist, curator and writer, a refugee, a displanted settler who works from T'karonto, the "Dish With One Spoon Territory," the homelands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat nations, most recently the territory of the Mississaugas of Credit. She lives near Wonscotonach (burning bright point) river, on unceded land that is subject to the 2015 Rouge River Tract Claim by the Mississauga First Nation. Her home in Shiraz was near Khoshk ...See more

Iranian-born Gita Hashemi is an award-winning artist, curator and writer, a refugee, a displanted settler who works from T'karonto, the "Dish With One Spoon Territory," the homelands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat nations, most recently the territory of the Mississaugas of Credit. She lives near Wonscotonach (burning bright point) river, on unceded land that is subject to the 2015 Rouge River Tract Claim by the Mississauga First Nation. Her home in Shiraz was near Khoshk (dry) river. Elena Basile, born and raised in Italy to an English mother and an Italian father, writes, researches, and teaches in Tkaronto, Treaty 13. She has spent most of her life writing about the entangled layers of language, culture and place that make belonging possible, collaborating with artists and writers along the way. She is currently working on decolonizing her own approach. See less