Azadeh Monzavi is a researcher/artist and Ph.D. Candidate in the Communication and Culture program at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her material approaches include upcycling used fabrics and exploring ‘found’ objects through social encounters with users and designers of textiles and clothing. Her work explores concepts of social justice, home, belonging, and identity within global contexts. Through her research-creation, she interrogates the decolonizing potential of textile practices as a form of communicative media within broader and interrelated frameworks of intersectional feminist activism and visual culture. Her piece Namesake (2022) is in the Canada Council Art Bank collection, and she has recently completed a residency with the Textile Museum of Canada.