I'm Leen Amarin, a Jordanian, Lebanese and Palestinian poet, creative, writer, and researcher committed to fostering and building re-indigenized futures.
Born and raised in Amman, Jordan, and now based in Tkaranto, I attempt to reconcile my identity as a migrant-settler through my creative practice and advocacy.
As an artist and performer, I see creating as a practice of release and remembrance. A sacred practice to root into self, creation, and all that is. My work is a deeply personal exploration of roots, legacy, and ancestral wisdom. It is steeped in themes of homeland, diasporic tensions, and identity reclaimed.
As a researcher and liberation worker/educator, I carry freedom, joint struggle, and community at the core of my being and work. I am interested in building practical knowledge, and exploring indigeneity, belonging, and re-indigenization. I work with individuals, grassroots collectives, institutions, and organizations alike to further our fight to decolonization and freedom.
Building on literary and civil rights giants before me, I ground my work in the power of art as liberation. As Toni Cade Bambara says, “as a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make the revolution irresistible.”