Knowing means understanding there are things we can never know
All knowledge is limited by positionality and governed by relationships
The world cannot be fully understood by life in human shapes because humans cannot occupy the spaces held by all other life or to see to the end of connections
Ambelin Kwaymullina
After Eelam is a patchwork of voices, struggles, solidarities that ask what does a Tamil homeland look like, feel like, breathe like, outside of a man made agenda? Outside of borders, class, caste, gender? What does Tamil liberation on the island of so called Sri Lanka mean if it includes not just the North Eastern Tamils, but also our Malayaha and Muslim kin?
Thank you to Brahmi, Aunty Kalyani Inpakumar, Thinesh Thillai and Uncle Ana Parajasingham for sharing your stories.
Book tickets to Thayakam, screening September 20 at Reading Cinemas Auburn here.
Produced by Prinita Thevarajah