I Am Sam Kurdish ❲INSTANT — TUTORIAL❳

I don’t blame people. Really. Our history is complicated, our struggle is long, and our homeland was carved up and handed out like old playing cards. But explaining it over and over is exhausting. It means growing up with stories of resilience. My grandmother told me about walking over mountains at night, carrying nothing but children and hope. She didn’t tell it like a tragedy. She told it like a fact. This is what we did. This is what we are.

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We’ve got plenty of stories. And we’re finally ready to tell them ourselves. I don’t blame people

It means music that makes you feel a thousand years old. The sound of the tembûr, the slow ache in a Dengbêj’s voice, singing stories that were never written down because writing wasn’t safe, but memory was. But explaining it over and over is exhausting

It means a language that is ancient and beautiful and, until recently, illegal to speak in schools in some of the countries we call home.

And for most of my life, those two things have felt like they don’t belong in the same sentence. “Where are you from?”