Sevana Ohandjanian

Սեւանա Օհանջանեան | Writer | Film programming advisor @sydfilmfest @queerscreen | Translator KO-EN | 🏳️‍🌈

[Ihcen 🔻 @ihcentoo]

Nearly 10 million people live in Tehran. Trump casually told them to leave, the "or else" left unspoken but clearly implied. Is there any doubt that the US is the biggest terrorist organization on the planet?

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

Do we need balanced representation of ethnic cleansing? Giving space to genocidal criminals to hawk their propaganda is an embarrassing choice.

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

Just sat down to watch @emkrt There Was, There Was Not @JEONJU_IFF only to be handed this notice. Fuck all the way off with this ‘there’s two sides’ nonsense. Spitting in the face of genocide survivors.

[Eyup Lovely @eyuplovely]

You shouldn’t be friends with Israelis, you shouldn’t be polite to Israelis. You shouldn’t eat Israeli food or go to Israeli restaurants or dance with Israelis in clubs or associate with any Israeli person at all. Anything short of permanent unconditional hostility is a betrayal

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

@fivepennyplease Brady never disappoints!!!

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

In the cinema at 9am to see the brutalist on opening day in Seoul with only one other woman in the theatre. I am a true cinephile.

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

We love to see it! 'A Book, Untitled' remains one of my favourite books for sheer ambition. An incredible translation.

[Tilted Axis @TiltedAxisPress]

Thrilled that the TA First Translation Prize awarded for ‘staggering and unforgettable’ translation from Eastern Armenian by translator Deanna Cachoian-Schanz and editor Tatiana Ryckman for A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan!

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

@fivepennyplease Did someone finally watch Conclave?!?!?

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

i love you david lynch even though bob gave me nightmares as a teenager

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

@afinedeadsound WHAT

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

Just remembered the edit on my manuscript that convinced me I was dealing with some of the dumbest dummies in the biz: the editor changed ‘he retorted’ to ‘he clapped back’. In a book translated from Korean.

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

Simply have to laugh at the publisher posting online that they have ‘a masterpiece of a book’ - honey, how do you know that?? Did you maybe read the entire book in English then reject a translation because I refused to dumb it down for you?

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

As long as you’re not gay or a woman or a person of colour…

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

feeling messy. should i tell the story of how a publisher bought a book based off my translated sample, hired me to do the entire manuscript, strung me along then fired me claiming the translation was 'unacceptable'? i have so many fun receipts 🧾🧾🧾

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

We’re not asking you to end the genocide, we’re demanding an end to our complicity in it, a complete arms embargo, and actual opposition to these historic crimes, ie sanctions on Israel. In short: follow international law! Yet you continue to refuse, and continue to lie to us.

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

Can we as a society think of people as humans around us with their own internal lives and rights, instead of actors made for your curated social feed

[Sevana Ohandjanian @IchbinSev]

Today at an art gallery I asked a stranger to not take photos/video of my friend who was in VR headgear and so didn’t know they were being photographed. The person got pissed at ME because apparently it was ‘none of my business’

[Lindsey Snell @LindseySnell]

Israel supplies 70% of Azerbaijan’s weapons, and Azerbaijan supplies 40% of Israel’s oil (via Turkey, despite Erdogan’s blathering about a fictional trade ban on Israel.)

They’re aiding each other’s ethnic cleansing campaigns. 🇮🇱🤝🇦🇿