Poetics of silence

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Aytak Dibavar

Aytak Dibavar (they/she) is an Iranian activist, artist, and professor of Gender and Social Justice at McMaster University, Canada. Aytak’s work is entangled with feminist, queer, decolonial, and anti-racist knowledge production as well as creative/art-based teaching practices. They research and write about race, gender, memory, political trauma and silence and their artwork also explores nothingness, silence, and absence. Aytak has a great passion for people and their lived experiences. She is interested in life-narratives; how individuals navigate and interpret their own stories, including whether and how they choose to share them with others or remain silent.