hold on to her

In 2018, two-year-old Mawda Shawri, daughter of Phrast and Shamden and sister to Hama, was shot dead by a Belgian police officer during a car chase. In 2023, more than 40 people, both undocumented and documented resident activists, assembled in Brussels to film a collective hearing of documents from Mawda’s case and reactions to her killing. Together, these produce counter-forensic evidence of this deadly tale of migration, and build a lived social infrastructure of care, solidarity and struggle.