by Nina Marsoopian | Sep 7, 2015 | Archives
*Disclaimer: I speak from a US-based point of view. As queer and trans* people and as immigrants or recent descendants of immigrants, we must acknowledge that sex work has been a vital part of our history. This continues today, as those with our shared identities are...
by Sophia Rakel Armen | Apr 30, 2015 | Archives
Ghosts of memory & trauma, an act of resistance… MARCH 2015 — Nelly Gasparyan sings a haunting performance of “Der Vorghomya” (Տեր ողորմեա) in the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Akhtamar Island: Yep, we know. Stunning. Beyond the singing of “Lord Have...
by Jeremy Dalmas | Apr 24, 2015 | Archives
It’s been just over a century since the Ottoman Empire began to systematically kill what would eventually be 1.5 million Armenians. Waves of refugees immigrated to the Bay Area, fleeing the killings. Today, tens of thousands of people of Armenian descent live...
by Bavakan | Apr 23, 2015 | Archives
one hundred years of becoming from Tadukhepa on Vimeo.
by lee williams boudakian | Apr 23, 2015 | Archives
Tonight is April 23, 2015 and I am sitting in my room in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territory. Never ceded. No treaties. I write this on/from stolen land. Theft. Of land. Of people. Of home. Of possessions. Of generations. From this site of...
by Ann Yacoubian | Apr 23, 2015 | Archives
Background: Armenians have their own Quarter of the Old City (one of the four [Jewish, Muslim, Christian and yes, Armenian]) and have had a presence in Palestine for centuries with a dramatic increase in the population after the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923...