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@parfaitdiem
everymorning: i think im about to die. i think im going to die. im actually going to die. this is it. im going to die. im going to die immediately.
every single night: lock in. OK. Lock In. Change your Life. I love you. Lock in. This is going to be big. I’m going to change the world. Ready? I love you. Lock in. I have an idea. Lock in.
from "Tenebrous" by Georgia Rebecca
the usa shouldn’t be the political and economic focal point of the entire fucking planet, actually
I just learned that my medication is out of stock COUNTRYWIDE because America is restricting how much ADHD medication Australia is allowed to make... and they're just flat out ignoring Australia's request to meet to negotiate more.
America's Federal Trade Commission is taking public comments on this exact situation right now.
If you've been affected by the actions of US-based regulation in regards to accessing your ADHD medication, please submit a comment! Even if you're outside of the United States. The fact this has such far-reaching consequences is something that needs to be known!
You have until April 15th, 2024 to submit a comment. Please make your voice heard!
first read on @exitmusicfrafilm’s post about 2023
I’m in the process of organizing a gofundme for a family to get out of Gaza and into Egypt. If anyone with a big following on Twitter can help me spread it there, please let me know.
I’m really, deadly serious about this. Please do contact me if you or someone you know could help. If some tumblr blogs with significant followings can volunteer to spread it when it’s ready, too, please send me a message and I’ll send you a post with the link as soon as it’s ready
To introduce myself, I’m a Palestinian-American who has been to the West Bank many times. R… H A needs your support for Help Ahmed and His
Here we go. This fundraiser is for @90-ghost and I’ve had it set up on his behalf because gofundme isn’t available in Palestine. I’m collaborating with a DC-based organization to help spread this on Facebook, but it’s been put together on short notice and the reach is limited, so we need your help: the need for someone to help spread it on Twitter still stands.
In case anyone is suspicious, I hate to have to do this, but I’ve reverse-searched Ahmed’s images (featured in the gofundme), checked his posts to see that he does use authentic Palestinian Arabic to the best of my knowledge (my family is from the West Bank and I’ve been there a lot), checked the story of his sister from 2021 and found confirmation of her murder, etc. If you have questions about me, well, Ahmed will vouch for me, and you can see from looking at my blog that this is a cause that has been near and dear to me for a long time; I’m Palestinian and would sooner die than do wrong by a fellow Palestinian fleeing death itself. Please help Ahmed by donating and/or spreading far and wide!
Btw, you can show any donation you’ve made to this gofundme to me and I’ll give you a commission of equal monetary value.
That is so touching, thank you. @90-ghost look how much support you have! We’ll get your family to safety inshallah
Happy birthday, Duane.
Radio Romance by Mashrou' Leila
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (clutches my head and remembers that poem about All my dead friends and the frightening door
“all my dead friends” by marie howe
"a possible exit" by jarrett moseley
kinder than man, athea davis
I know it’s not much in the face of everything but I have been finding hope & resilience in palestinian poetry these past few weeks and I created a google drive file of poetry collections by palestinian poets that I will keep updating as I keep on reading. I also recommend checking out @fiercynn’s palestinian poets series for more poets + poetry available online
I’m unable to share it because I bought the kindle version but HIGHLY recommend maya abu al-hayyat’s collection you can be the last leaf translated by fady joudah. some poems were published here and here
Eating the Archive, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
Eating the Archive, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish
Years ago, I received a query from a prominent editor about a line in Mahmoud Darwish’s long poem, “The ‘Red Indian’s’ Penultimate Speech to the White Man,” (If I Were Another). The poem channels Chief Seattle’s voice and spirit. In the poem’s second section, the line in question follows an address to Columbus, “the free [who] has the right to find India in any sea, / and the right to name our ghosts as pepper or Indian.”
The line in question is this: “You have burst seventy million hearts…enough, / enough for you to return from our death as monarch of the new time”:
isn’t it time we met, stranger, as two strangers of one time and one land, the way strangers meet by a chasm? We have what is ours…and we have what is yours of sky. You have what is yours…and what is ours of air and water.
“I just don’t get where he got the seventy million from?” the editor asked.
I didn’t reply. I didn’t wonder about the accuracy of Darwish’s claim. Maybe he included all the Natives annihilated in the Americas over the centuries. The only thought I had in my head was, “Is this really what’s bothering you about the poem?”
Years later, in a daydream, a marginalia of my soul visited me, and it spoke thus: “Do you remember those seventy million punctured hearts in Darwish’s poem? If you’re ever asked again, if the person who asks you says that historical studies show the number is not possible or whatever, remember the buffalos.”
The buffalo hearts are also native hearts. Who will count the donkeys, dogs, and cats in Gaza? The birds will return.
— Fady Joudah, in his essay “A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation”
I Am You by Refaat Alareer
what resembles the grave but isn’t, anne boyer // i didn’t apologize to the well, mahmoud darwish (trans. fady joudah).
someone: hi
me: did you know the narrative that school shooters in the US are all bullying victims is false and originates from inaccurate coverage of one of the most infamous school shootings, the columbine shooting? in reality the columbine shooters were reactionaries who isolated themselves deliberately and followed an ideology that positioned them "above" the rest. so, a lot of school shooters are actually ideologically motivated rather than revenge motivated. no one knows this and the media paints these murderers as victims. do you want to know what the columbine effect is? also I have a lot to say about "stranger danger" as a conservative fear campaign to promote the isolated nuclear family
