RAZAN IS A DIASPORIC PALESTINIAN RESEARCHER, COMMUNITY WORKER AND TATREEZ FACILITATOR BASED OUT OF TORONTO (@STITCHINGLIBERATION). Razan introduces her work, which is rooted in Indigenous and Palestinian feminist methodologies to consider the relationships, material cultures, and joint resistances between Palestinian and Indigenous communities engaging in collective world building on Turtle Island.

Razan reflects on how tatreez serves as a living archive—a medium that carries the memory of land, lineage, and liberation. She shares how she uses storytelling, embroidery, and community facilitation as tools to navigate diasporic grief, reclaim ancestral knowledge, and resist cultural erasure. The discussion touches on the deeply emotional and political layers of embroidery, especially as Palestinians continue to survive and create despite ongoing displacement and violence.

Practicing tatreez can become a ceremony—one that reconnects the personal with the political. Razan talks about how she frames her workshops around themes like survival, love, and imagination, and how this practice allows her to build solidarities between Palestinian and Indigenous communities. The episode is a powerful reminder that stitching can be a radical act of remembering, resisting, and reimagining.

Get in touch with her tatreez IG account @stitchingliberation or through the art collective @furdose that she is a part of in Toronto.

You’ll hear about:

>> 2:04: Razan’s connection to Palestine

>> 3:27: Relationship with tatreez

>> 7:15: Palestinian-Indigenous world building through tatreez

>> 13:03: How and where is tatreez resistance

>> 19:03: Getting involved when on stolen land through tatreez

>> 29:00: Envisioning land back for Palestine through tatreez

>> 32:30: What’s next for Razan’s tatreez journey

>> 35:37: Life lessons from tatreez

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Links Mentioned

>> “Beading Becomes a Part of Your Life”: Transforming the Academy Through the Use of Beading as a Method of Inquiry article by Lana Ray

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