Huma is a jinn known in various Middle Eastern tales and myths who brings heat to the human body and is responsible for the common fever. She is pictured as a demon with three heads and one or two tails in different books.

She Who Sees The Unknown: Huma (2016)

Huma is a jinn known in various Middle Eastern tales and myths as a demon who brings heat to the human body and is responsible for the common fever. The text I’ve written for this video sits between fact and fiction and tells a new story about her, in which her power (bringing heat) is re-appropriated to respond to a contemporary horror of our time; climate change and environmental degradation; through poetic and metaphoric narrations, Huma becomes the figure for balancing this injustice, leveling all temperature. In simple words, if we are all to experience a dystopian future due to climate change, Huma’s approach is much closer to Donna Haraway’s argument for “staying with the trouble” we have caused as humans than to Elon Musk’s “leave earth to go to Mars,” because who will get to go to Mars and who will be left behind? Huma’s solution is to decolonize such colonial approaches and solutions.