Céline Semaan, a Lebanese-American designer, writer and advocate, was displaced from Lebanon to Canada as a child and survived war and refugeehood. Everything Is Political underpins work across research, art, and publishing and names a digital and print publication. The Slow Factory, founded in 2012, is a non-profit operating at the intersections of climate justice, human rights and cultural transformation for fairness and sustainability and has grown into a widely followed platform resisting erasure and censorship. A Woman Is a School compiles lived experiences of displacement, resistance and survival across Palestine and Lebanon and led to the founding of Books for Collective Liberation after initial shelving.
The Lebanese-American designer, writer and advocate's entire oeuvre - from her research to her art - is rooted in the belief that everything is political. Having been displaced from Lebanon to Canada as a child, a survivor of war and a refugee, this is something she experienced first hand at a young age. An enormous truism whittled down to three words, 'Everything is Political'; at once a tagline - and the title of Semaan's digital and print publication ( EIP ).
EIP is an offshoot of something much larger: the Slow Factory, a non-profit working at the intersections of climate justice, human rights and cultural transformation for fairness and sustainability. Founded by Semaan in 2012, the Slow Factory has since grown (it has close to one million followers on Instagram) into one of the most recommended sources of information in the face of erasure and censorship. Informative, and never sanitised, the platform champions the notion that access to information enables collective liberation.
"The book is a call to action and a map for collective freedom, offering tools for dismantling oppressive systems while cultivating the cultural soil for new worlds to grow," she says. "Also to the broader themes it holds: inherited trauma, the politics of liberation, the erasure of Arab women's voices, and what it means to make art and truth in a time of systemic collapse."
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