Becoming cultural and disability activists who challenge dominant narratives: The parallax effect of survivors of chemical warfare in Iran

This article discusses how Faye Ginsburg's work on ethnographic filmmaking, cultural activism, disability studies, and the parallax effect inspired me to collaborate over two decades with survivors of chemical warfare in Iran and Iraq. In order to continue to advocate for their needs for subsidized medical treatment, survivors of chemical weapons in Iran took up disability rights and carved out an important spaces as cultural activists to advocate for peace over war. Their creation of the Tehran Peace Museum and the many attendant media products it has produced, serve as an important parallax effect that has been instrumental in making critical dents into the extremely well‐funded state produced media about the war in Iran.