Through a feminist lens, Homeward Bound—Her Memoir on Binds and Becoming aims to out the systems/structures that shape women’s lives (class, economy, education, patriarchy, heteronormativity, family, racism, culture, religion, etc.) with the intent to transform and build anew, in parallel to celebrating works of art by women that show manifestations of revolt and defence through reflection and creation, processing the binds that constrain oneself by turning the inside out.

Looking simultaneously at writing as the memoir, diary and epistolary forms and experimental forms of filmmaking that interweave the personal, socio-political and economic, and the everyday and unique occurrences that our lives are composed of, I will address how the dichotomy between the personal/private corresponds with the binaries of home/public-sphere and female/male, thus sustaining unequal power structures and resulting in the undervaluation of art stemming from lived experiences of women.

Imagining a fertile, feminist future, I fervently believe that one must learn from the past, one’s own, and those who’ve ‘paved the way’, as Sara Ahmed put it in her book Living a Feminist Life (2017). Departing from ‘home’ while travelling on feminist paths, dismantling structures along the way, this research will form the basis of artists’ writing and film.