The Sun Planters is a powerful and formally inventive play that explores memory, resistance, and intergenerational inheritance within the Iranian diaspora. Moving across decades and continents, it follows Ravi, a young queer Iranian researcher, as she uncovers the forgotten political life of her late uncle-an anti-imperialist student activist in the 1960s. Blending archival documents, poetry, history, and theatrical imagination, the play challenges official narratives while illuminating the intimate connections between family, revolution, and remembrance. Both deeply personal and profoundly political, The Sun Planters is a moving meditation on the stories we inherit, the silences we carry, and the enduring possibilities of collective liberation. Tala Khanmalek (aka mecca monarch) is a writer, editor, and scholar with a PhD in ethnic studies from UC Berkeley. Tala is author of The Sun Planters (Asemana Books 2026) and An Infinity of Traces (Blue Cactus Press 2026) as well as the children's book My Name Means Free (Blue Cactus Press 2027).