Reflections on Jagged Movements
by Durre Shahwar
Issue Six – Autumn 2025

Through my daily entries, I have chronicled stories of destruction, loss, death, weakness, displacement, hunger, pain, patience, resilience, and brokenness. In my works, I expressed the story beyond the official propaganda narrative. I have my own story that sits neatly within these narratives; it defines my own difficult relationship to the concept of movement, as it is the reason why mine is “jagged” – rough, uneven, irregular, punctuated by doubt and hesitation, as opposed to fluid and unafraid. The latter arises out of “scattered” or “dispersed” movements of people under colonialism, as often referred to within postcolonial frameworks.