Featuring photography, poetry, and performance, Diaspora Daughter / Diaspora Dyke is a zine that contends with intergenerational knowledge, personal histories, pleasure, loss, love, and the formation of identity through visual representation.
Created with the generous support of Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, and Broken Pencil Magazine.
DETAILS
September 2020
40 pages
80lb full colour
7×8.5
ABOUT
Christina Hajjar is a queer femme first-generation Lebanese-Canadian artist, writer, and cultural worker. Her artistic and curatorial interests deal with diaspora, queerness, body archives, food, memory, and space/place. She does photography, installation, zines, poetry, and performance art.
Hajjar has undergraduate degrees in Women’s and Gender Studies and Business and Administration from the University of Winnipeg. She is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty 1 Territory, the traditional territory of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.