This project explores radical hope, futurism, diaspora healing, and memory through the imagination of our collective descendants.

Just as we learn from our ancestors, they can learn from us as well. This ritual experience allows diasporic folks to connect with imagined descendants who carry their stories forward. Many diaspora folks grieve losses that are not only about death, but about lost homelands, languages, cultural connections, rituals, severed lineages due to migration, war, colonialism, and the fear of being the "last" to remember. This ritual explores radical hope, a unique form of hope that persists in the face of profound adversity and cultural devastation–it goes beyond conventional optimism and resilience, necessitating a transformative mindset toward an uncertain future (Lear, 2006). It is knowing that “one can fight for justice and that fight will not be futile” (French et al., 2020)