Sancintya Mohini Simpson is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work addresses the impact of colonization on the historical and lived experiences of her family and broader diasporic communities. Simpson descends from indentured laborers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Working between various mediums, including painting, video, poetry, and performance, Simpson pays particular attention to the gaps and erasures within the colonial archive that fail to acknowledge (or make invisible) the lives of over two million Indian indentured servants. Simpson traces the movements and passages of these laborers and her own familial past, giving voice to these often omitted histories, many of which are passed down orally through generations, including by her own mother. The complexities of memory, migration, and intergenerational trauma that she unearths serve as a means of reconciling with a violent past. What she proposes is a new speculative archive where loss and healing can coexist.