People who will collaborate on the artistic intervention are from multiple generations of diasporic communities, mainly from the MENA region. We are children of immigrants and political refugees who became asylum lawyers, law enforcement officers, medical professionals, and artists. Bringing these groups together for deep exploration of what it means to have freedom of speech through creating an artistic language acknowledges the lives that have been sanctioned by borders. This innovative form of dialogue uses a framework of artistic practice-as-research to reinstate the value in collective democratic participation. It addresses and will hopefully begin to transform blocks in communication that arise from several problems related to generation gaps, post-traumatic stress, misconceptions of life in the United States, and the lack of support for diasporic communities coming from West Asia and North Africa in particular.