Malika Fankha

No Place Like Home addresses the silence surrounding child sexual abuse within family systems, aiming to bring the discourse on domestic violence out of the private sphere and raise awareness of our collective responsibility. The piece examines manipulative mechanisms and their lifelong consequences for survivors: What values do we internalize after years of humiliation and violence? How can a body, whose boundaries have been repeatedly violated, reclaim its autonomy? How can a home be associated with safety when it has been the site of crime for years?

The work explores physical and psychological states that expose the ambiguity between revulsion and attraction—toward one’s own body and the bodies of others. Sometimes, these bodies are trapped in endlessly repeating spirals of memory; sometimes, they find hope through the empowerment of queer desire.