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Marwa Eltahir’s art practice is rooted in storytelling as prayer. Hailing from Omdurman, Sudan, she leverages the power of story-sharing to pass down ancestral knowledge. As a writer, producer, and visual artist, she explores themes of movement, identity, and belonging across diasporic communities, using Sudanese images, rituals, and symbols as key points of departure.

Marwa founded Our Political Home (OPH), an art incubator for trans and queer African storytellers. She has received fellowships from The LGBTQ Community Center of NY, The Laundromat Project, and We Are Family Foundation. Her work, centering queer narratives, challenges traditional Islamic and Nubian cosmologies.

Her first visual essay premiered in May 2024 at the Banat el Hara exhibit by the Arab Film and Media Institute. Marwa's work has been featured in Blavity, Autostraddle, and USA Today. She holds a BA in Political Science and Women and Gender Studies from Boston College.