Sammaneh Poursh is a Queer genderfluid Muslim who arrived in Australia as a refugee after the Iranian Revolution. Her ancestral tribes originate from Oureh, Gilan, and Kurdistan. Pourshafighi is a hereditary witch, producer, writer and multidisciplinary artist. Her work plays with identity, ritual, the Body, diaspora, Middle Eastern and Western histories, and comedy as a way to address trauma. Sammaneh is currently experimenting with gif based post-internet art in the age of COVID-19 and completing a Masters in Contemporary Art at VCA with a focus on Persianness, Poetry, Performance and The Profane.