This piece is a work for the class Nonfiction Now. We were assigned to create a testimony piece by interviewing someone and editing it so we only hear (or read) the interviewee's voice, telling us a story. I interviewed Maria in French, as it's her first language. The video has subtitles in French and English as well.

<tagzayt> explores the body as an Archive -- aptly titled after Indigenous Amazigh tattooing rituals. Such markings have been remediated across time and space through lenses of colonial eradication, Orientalist artwork, generational storytelling, and diasporic reimaginations. Sonic narratives express how tattooing, an act of tangibilizing a feminine personhood, has evolved as a practice in semantics. By recognizing the often violent trouble with remembering, <tagzayt> considers how a deliberate act of permanence is temporally uprooted.