@palettesofpalestine en RITCS Café slaan de handen in elkaar voor een lezing en workshop op 19 maart Fiction as a Tool to Reclaim Narratives – A Workshop We are surrounded by words, sentences, and discourses that tell stories. Our stories, but always told by others. And all these words hold power: the power to create an imaginary that, through repetition, becomes reality. Academic research, public policy, the media, as well as musical and cinematic culture, are all actors that construct the boxes and labels placed upon us. Together, let us rewrite the end, the middle, and perhaps even the beginning. Let us make our voices heard, take back the pen, the page, and the microphone if necessary. Let us allow ourselves at least one space and time where our lives are not told by those who seek to erase them. Dounia Largo (she/her, 30), PhD student in anthropology at ULB, working on diverse topics such as : gender dynamics/roles among agriculture ; gender based and sexual violences among academia ; or the repression of the Palestinian movement in Brussels. I mobilized different methodologies such as research-action and inductive methods and am really interested in speculative science and ethnographic fiction as good food for thought and spaces to reflect on alternative ways of engaging with our environnement. I situate myself in the decolonial, anti racist and materialist feminist litterature.