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KPFA’s Resistance in Residence Artist: Colette Ghunim

May 5, 2025 BY admin

The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.

KPFA’s Law & Disorder Resistance in Residence Artist this week is Mexican-Palestinian-American filmmaker and 2024 Impact Kickstart recipient, Colette Ghunim, whose upcoming film titled Traces of Home follows Colette’s journeys with her parents to find the ancestral houses they were forced to flee as children in Mexico and Palestine. What begins as a desire to connect to Colette’s cultural origins reveals an internal quest to heal her disconnect with her parents, and, ultimately, with herself. Subscribe to Law and Disorder podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page.

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