The setting for this first episode, “Tea, Tenderness, and Torture” is inside Badr Ahmed’s* drawing of a table set for tea with no one there. We enter Ahmed's drawing to join an imagined gathering of Chicago police torture survivors and  Guantánamo torture survivors over tea. Connections emerge as Anthony Holmes, Moazzam Begg, Kilroy Watkins, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Ronnie Kitchen, Sabri al-Qurashi, La Tanya Jenifor-Sublett, and Mansoor Adayfi introduce themselves and speak about their experiences.

*Badr Ahmed is currently imprisoned at the extralegal military prison at Guantánamo despite being cleared for release.

Banner image caption: Badr Ahmed, Untitled, 2015