In 2020, Asha Kiani and artist Elham Eshragian-Haakinsson co-founded the Second Generation Collective. This is a project that seeks to curate and express the stories of the local Iranian-Australian community in Perth, Western Australia. The project aims to critically and emotionally expresses the notions of belonging, loss, grief, resilience, and healing by engaging stories shared by the first generation, those who escaped persecution during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and the second generation, children of those who escaped, of which we identify as. Within the Iranian-Australian refugee and migrant community of Perth, we aim to bridge the intergenerational gap and confront the dichotomies of identity; the push and pull of accepting or rejecting culture, the acknowledgment of journeys taken by the first generation in hopes of a safer life for their family and an expression of the realities of growing up in Australia with dual identity.