ALL MONEY DONATED VIA FUNDRAISING LINK WILL BE SENT TO ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND. Being Armenian has been a vague concept to me for most of my life. Like many diasporans, my family was generations removed from Armenia, almost fully melted into America. My childhood was more bacon than sujuk; more soccer practice than Armenian language lessons. Even with limited exposure to the Armenian world, I always had curiosity to learn more about our culture, especially the music that my ancestors may have heard, sung, or danced to on Armenian soil. That curiosity was mostly a distant, background thought – until 2014, when I volunteered and traveled through Armenia, developing/uncovering a true connection and sense of Armenian-ness for the first time. But there was a much heavier urge to move on this project after a military offensive was launched on the culturally and historically Armenian populated land of Artsakh by Azerbaijan with the help of the Turkish administration in September of 2020, while the world was preoccupied with a pandemic and the rise of autocratic leaderships around the world. Vastly outnumbered, underfunded, and technologically inferior, large parts of this land were lost as a result of a treaty ending the violence. Now, in the winter of 2021, we’re seeing more incursions into Armenia proper, and more soldiers and civilians displaced, injured and killed.