The Fruit We Bare

Pardis Aliakbarkhani is a poet and artist living outside of Toronto, Canada. Growing up a member of the Iranian diaspora in the GTA, Aliakbarkhani recalls feeling disconnected from her cultural roots and at odds with her Canadian upbringing. The only common consensus between the two worlds seemed to be that fatness was akin to laziness, and laziness was akin to wickedness, and wickedness is akin to queerness; and so, very suddenly and profoundly she situated herself from the periphery of privilege to its margins.