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 disaster comic The Book of Genocides, (under contract with Harvard University Press) the experience will conscientize users to the reality that genocidal violence derives from specific cultural forces instead of our purportedly violent natures.  The VR 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.