Sammaneh Pourshafighi

Sammaneh Pourshafighi is a Queer genderfluid Muslim who arrived in Australia as a refugee after the Iranian Revolution. Her ancestral tribes originate from Oureh, Gilan, and Kurdistan. Pourshafighi is a hereditary witch, producer, writer and multidisciplinary artist. Her work plays with identity, ritual, the Body, diaspora, Middle Eastern and Western histories, and comedy as a way to address trauma.