The Iraqi Diaspora Creative Network is a network for creatives with Iraqi heritage to share and befriend each other. It is open to diaspora Iraqis of all ethnic and religious groups with a creative practice making art about anything and everything. We are LGBTQ+ friendly.

Iraqi Diaspora Creatives Network: Manifesto

So often stories from Iraqi perspectives are about surviving in a war torn country, escaping the war torn country or yearning for it.

But what if you are Iraqi and have never been to Iraq or only been a few brief times as is the case for a whole generation of us. What about our stories, the in between discourses we carry?

Ours is a position that only other diaspora kids understand. Living in the liminal space where home isn’t in the homeland nor where you were born or have grown up for the majority of your life. It is the legacy of the homeland in your history and the experience growing up outside of it.

It may be feeling an affinity and connection to the homeland or not at all.

The Iraqi Diaspora Creatives Network is for this identity. To strengthen the diaspora and build a community with the specificity that diaspora is not the same as Iraqi from the homeland. It is an identity in and of itself.

Find them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/858723824625103