Unbounded Stories

Eleyan Sawaft

Part of Unbounded Stories: Stories That Heal Us, this conversation shares reflections from Palestine, connecting lived experiences with Canadian communities.
Today, we speak with Eleyan Sawaft, a Ph.D. student in Canada whose family is in Tubas, West Bank. Listen beyond headlines, into the human story.
Questions:
How do you stay emotionally connected to home from afar?
What small moment from home stays with you?
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Kaitlin Khubyar

Kaitlin Khubyar is an abolitionist educator committed to living decolonization as a daily practice, with my work rooted in anti-racism and human rights. They think and teach through Deleuzian theory, especially the ways fascism does not only govern nations, but lives quietly within us. Kaitlin is deeply shaped by hip-hop as pedagogy, by culturally responsive teaching, and by restorative and transformative justice as pathways back to one another. I work land-based, understanding land not as resource, but as teacher. I am an author, a public speaker, and a mutual aid organizer, guided always by a devotion to humanity, dignity, love, and respect.

Jordan Bighorn

Dr. Izzeddin Hawamda connects with Jordan Bighorn, Director of Indigenous Excellence in Education (Government of Manitoba), centred on the power of storytelling in Indigenous communities and how stories are essential to healing. SADAA is a storytelling space rooted in listening, memory, and relationship. Through Unbounded Stories, we gather voices across lands and communities to explore how stories shape who we are, how we learn, and how we live together. In Indigenous worlds, stories are not simply narratives—they are teachings, living archives, and ways of knowing. They carry land-based knowledge, responsibility, and collective memory, and they play a vital role in education, community work, and cultural continuity.