Reparations of the Heart

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Powerfully translating ancestral wisdom connection and memory into present expressions of healing and hope moving across time and space to navigate a difficult present and envision a better future author and artist Kristin Anahit Cass looks to our ancestral roots to explore the future in her debut book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Reparations of the Heart. </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Reparations of the Heart </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>presents</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>a vibrant tapestry of essays stories poems quotes and detailed often surreal images exploring questions of identity community healing and hope through an inclusive futurist lens. Centering diverse diaspora communities and feminist and queer communities in solidarity with indigenous communities everywhere this book transcends ethnic gender and other divides to forge a compassionate future with room for all. Using photography to create beautiful portraits of a diverse past present and future Cass and her subjects imagine a global futurism of all kinds-Queer Futurism SWANA Futurism Indigenous Futurism Feminist Futurism and more because </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>no matter where our ancestors were from they sacrificed and made the way for us to exist in this world creating a legacy for us of creativity and loving generosity that we can carry into the future.</span></p>