What is OtherNarratives?

OtherNarratives is an initiative founded by four friends around their common love of books and film. But not any book or film: those that resist dominant discourses of power and injustice; that weave the beauty of poetry and image into the fabric of oppression until it unravels, thread by thread, knot by knot. Books and films that speak truth to power.

There are many issues and struggles in the world--what humanity is doing to our planet, our rivers, mountains, oceans, air, flora and fauna, commonly called ‘climate change', being perhaps the most pressing of all, as our very survival as a species depends on it; but no issue or struggle has been denied legitimacy with the same rage and brutality as the Palestinian struggle. None have been so brazenly disconnected from truth and justice than the 76 year-old colonization, ethnic cleansing and occupation of Palestine. And there is a connection between the withering away of our ecosystem and the systemic and systematic destruction of indigenous land and culture, not just in Palestine, but all over the world.