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When the project was a seed

“I began to think of our archives as built from our experiences of walls, what we come up against, but also as built out of the creativity and inventiveness that is behind us, that is part of a survival story. It is something I will to return to – the work we have to do to give an ear to those who are often not heard because of the walls that come up ”

Sara Ahmed

the beginning

Early morning; at the borderlands of contemporary geography and time

It started with a deeply innate knowing that borders (walls) – placed artificially between bodies that long and in fact need to be free in order to thrive – cannot sustain us. Especially all that is womxnly in us and cannot breathe when the flow of what can be called life force, or a livable present on this planet, is interrupted in our daily lives. And in our minds. And especially, in our bodies.

Stereotypes Article

WHEN IT COMES TO STEREOTYPES…. Since we were living at the two sides of a closed-border and under the shadow of a still non-recognized genocide, as women from Armenia and Turkey, we were conditioned to be enemies rather than neighbors.…
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Letters

Imprints

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When the project was a seed

“I began to think of our archives as built from our experiences of walls, what we come up against, but also as built out of the creativity and inventiveness that is behind us, that is part of a survival story. It is something I will to return to – the work we have to do to give an ear to those who are often not heard because of the walls that come up ”

Sara Ahmed

the beginning

January 11, 2012; yerevan early morning; at the borderlands of contemporary geography and time It started with a deeply innate knowing that borders (walls) – placed artificially between bodies that long and in fact need to be free in order to thrive – cannot sustain us. Especially all that is…
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From Imprints to the Project

fall, 2012; virtual world Perhaps because we were independent and young and womxn taking space within the somewhat established world of peace-building without a mediating body (ironically also called a middle-man) where certain laws had already been agreed upon by individuals or groups deeming themselves experts on the topic, we…
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Fundraising attempts/story

September 22, 2012 e-mail to KtK representative Dear Annika Karlsson, I hope this e-mail finds you well. I was given your e-mail by Lara Aharonian of the Women’s Resource Center. I’ve been a long time volunteer with the center and I am now working on a collaborative cross-border peace-building project…
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The Project evolving

january, 2013; yerevan  We did not want to start by discussing history, because “building on the conviction that history has excluded us from its study, albeit in different ways, we wanted to create a project which did not take history as its point of departure.”  We already knew “that the…
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Yerevan Meeting

28 – 31 Ocak 2013                                Ermenistan Buluşması Bizi öyle güzel karşıladılar ve ağırladılar ki, ilk önce bunu söylemeden geçemeyeceğim : ) İki kere toplantı yapma şansımız oldu. Toplantılardan birini Women’s Resource Center’ın ofisinde gerçekleştirdik. Ermenistan ekibinden 5 kişi (Milena, Kara, Nina, Melissa ve Heghine) vardı. Diğer toplantıyı da evde yaptık.…
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Ապրել եմ ուզում- Yaşamak İstiyorum

September 19, 2015 Ermenistan ve Türkiye’den kadınlar Büyükada’da biraraya geldik. Bir yandan 3 yıldır devam eden grup dinamiğimizi yeniliyor olmanın doğum sancılarını çekiyoruz, bir yandan da dayanışmanın ve birlikte direnmenin yeni ve yaratıcı yollarını keşfediyoruz. Geçen sene performansımızda sessiz iletişimi öne çıkarmıştık, bu sene Anadolu topraklarında nefes almasına izin verilmeyen…
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Writings.no.1/ Yazılar.no.1

October 11, 2015 ”Sınırların Ötesinde: Hikayelerimizi Birleştiriyoruz” (Beyond Borders: Linking Our Stories) ekibi olarak; dün Ankara’da barış mitingi esnasında gerçekleşen saldırıda ölen ve yaralanan aktivist bireylerin kaybı karşısında duyduğumuz derin üzüntüyü kamuoyuyla paylaşmak isteriz. Bizler; 2013’den bu yana güven, dayanışma ve barışa yönelik yöntemler inşa etmek ve geliştirebilmek adına birlikte…
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Report.no.1

November 2015 Urgent Action Fund Report Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights (UAF) Grant Report Form Name of person completing the report: Milena Abrahamyan Organization: Beyond Borders: Linking Our Stories Date submitted: November 23, 2015 1. Please provide a brief accounting of how grant funds were used. Please note…
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