Girl Earth Fire Time

An animated VR experience, Girl Earth Fire Time charts a path toward reversing the human-made systems that have resulted in the atrocities we know as genocides. Based on Dana Mashoian Walrath’s interactive-art-installation-turned-disaster-comic The Book of Genocides, (forthcoming from Harvard University Press, September 2026) the experience will conscientize users to the reality that genocidal violence derives from specific cultural forces instead of our purportedly violent natures. TheVR experience travels between the ancestral and earthly realms while blending stories of the Armenian and Palestinian genocides, the Holocaust, and the stories of indigenous peoples of Southern Africa.  It moves genocide beyond massacre and beyond the false narrative of inevitable human violence to explore its remediable systemic roots.