• Julia W. Szagdaj, Nour Abou Jaoude, Anna Lathrop

  • FARAOYŚĆ – Building Alternative Worlds from Joy

    FARAOYŚĆ – Building Alternative Worlds from Joy
    This digital dynamic academic paper centers around faraoyść (faw-row-she-tchi), which is a portmanteau neologism that describes the moment when oppression appears to be coming to an end and a joyful, liberated world feels within reach. An exercise of translinguistic belonging combining elements from three languages: (Arabic: farah, English: joy, Polish: radość), faraoyść emerged from experiences in the reasearchers’ home countries: the Lebanese thawra, Strajk Kobiet in Poland, and the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States. The articulation of this emotion was expanded through the design of collaborative world-building activities that prompted memory recall, storytelling, naming and language generation, and speculative object creation. These praxis-based exercises were tested in a series of workshops both at the UNESCO Futures Literacy Summit and in collaboration with Negligence Refugees* from Lebanon. Centering faraoyść, participants imagined alternative worlds by drawing from personal memories that were then placed in dialogue with the recollections of others. *Negligence Refugees are a discrete part of the Lebanese diaspora who have immigrated from Lebanon due to systemic negligence and corruption in the current government. Our work can be found here: faraoysc.webflow.io/.
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