Published in 2020, Queer Motherhood is Speculative Fiction by Kamee Abrahamian is featured in Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices.
Kamee Abrahamian was born in Scarborough, Canada to an Armenian family by way of Beirut; arrives in the world today as a queer woman and a multidisciplinary producer / artist / facilitator / storyteller. She has a BFA/BA in film & political science, an MA in art therapy, and is currently pursuing an MA/PhD in community, liberation & ecopsychologies. The bedrock of Kamee’s arts training is in classical ballet, theatre, and visual art. In collaboration with fellow artists (lee williams boudakian, Katie Partlow, The Hye-Phen Mag), she continues to develop a body of work inclusive of film, performance, writing, digital art & design (Dear Armen, Saboteur Productions).
When they pushed their way into this world, a portal ripped my body open and remained that way for many months. During labor, the midwife kept measuring the size of this opening. As the numbers increased, I became worried that this portal would sever waist from hips, a magic trick gone wrong. There was a period of silence and bliss in which my understanding of where the room ended and where my body vanished entirely, followed by convulsions, an exorcism—then she said “ten centimeters,” and I knew it was done growing. I did not realize until that moment that my experience of time and space had transformed, my perspective was no longer three-dimensional.
Kamee Abrahamian
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