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less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ꨄ )

But here in the stillness, a not-awake Friday morning, I blink slowly. I hear you: the rush of the wind, the silence of the trees, the hush of our cops, the decay of your hands. Love poem: we share a coffee on the metro.

― leena aboutaleb

#leena

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palestinian poets: leena aboutaleb

leena aboutaleb is an egyptian-palestinian currently based in amman. her writing has appeared in third text online, mizna, LIFTA volumes, poetry london, the chestnut review, and others. her chapbook ‘Expeditions of Projection’ was published by VIBE in 2022, a press based in belfast, ireland. she was a guest editor of the palestine print issue alongside zaina alsous for sumou, where they worked inside and along the lineage and practice of palestinian memory. she is an M.A. graduate in media and strategic communications from the george washington university, where she focused on palestinian temporality and language-making. her thesis ‘Is-Was: Temporalities, Hauntings and Al-Faragh’ was formally published in january 2022, observing the temporal livelihood of symbols in the making of palestinian language.

IF YOU READ JUST ONE POEM BY LEENA ABOUTALEB, MAKE IT THIS ONE

the sea sun-sick, sun-washed, sun-kissed the sea reckless and in love with the sun the sea with a heart of a fig, a pomegranate, a lemon the

OTHER POEMS ONLINE I LOVE BY LEENA ABOUTALEB

ontologies at the boiler journal

LIBERATION IS ROTTING IN YOUR FIGS at fiyah lit magazine

it's a britney mo(u)rning at violet indigo blue etc (VIBE)

of a coming world at BAHR // بح

art exhibition: west bank girl on fire at strange horizons (also read aloud)

KUN FAYAKUN at the hunger

LOOK: 7odood Briefs! at anomaly

yeah maybe I'm still in luv w u at underblong

trans-axolotl

tagged by @librarycards to share my nine favorite books I've read this fall!

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi

Disability Politics and Theory by AJ. Withers.

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze

What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren.

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom

Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir by Pidgeon Pagonis

Black Madness :: Mad Blackness by Therí Alyce Pickens (Technically read this before the fall as well but reread it again and it's so good I wanted to put it on the list!)

The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

I also feel like I read a lot of really meaningful articles + interviews + poems this fall, so I'm also going to add my top nine short form pieces that I read as well.

Out of My Hands: A musician in prison pines for his bass. by David Annarelli.

Diaries of Blood: The secret artists within Israeli detention facilities. by Eman Al-Astal.

Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi

Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts by George Yancy interviewing Talila A. Lewis

Occupied Land is an Access Issue: Interventions in Feminist Disability Studies and Narratives of Indigenous Activism by Jess L. Cowing

Perfect Storm: A time to refrain from embracing by Richard Hunsinger.

Sick4Sick by torrin a. greathouse

Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People are Dying by Noor Hindi

Languaging Memory by leena aboutaleb

tagging anybody else who wants to! too tired to tag individual people, sorry.

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But here in the stillness, a not-awake Friday morning, I blink slowly. I hear you: the rush of the wind, the silence of the trees, the hush of our cops, the decay of your hands. Love poem: we share a coffee on the metro.

― leena aboutaleb

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steve harrington your hair is so hard to draw like this

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Death by stereo 🎸🦇

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A report just came out from a Palestinian hostage saying he was strapped with bombs and sent into a Hamas tunnel, with Israel prepared to blow the tunnel up with his body if fighters were found inside and yet people are still making the “Hamas uses human shields” arguments that have been confirmed to be a myth with no supporting evidence

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Every zionist accusation is a confession.

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The Palestinian, who wished to be identified only by his first name and was released two days ago, said he was one of the dozens of men seen in photographs and video bound and stripped to their underwear by Israeli troops. One soldier, he recalled, told him he wanted to send him to his God, before taking him to a Hamas tunnel. “He made me wear a belt filled with explosives, and placed a GoPro camera on my head along with a rope around my waist,” Hakim told MEE. According to the Palestinian, he was then pushed into the tunnel and ordered to explore it to see if there were any fighters inside. “They were prepared to explode the tunnel using my body if the camera on my head showed any fighters inside,” he said. “I was 100 percent sure I was going to be killed at that moment, but then they pulled me out of the tunnel when they found nothing inside.” According to Hakim, a 15-year-old boy was subjected to the same treatment. The boy, who had been detained with Hakim, survived and was released three days later, he said.

#palestine

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— Chen Chen, Ode to My Envy

excerpts from: When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

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'Dragon'. Witold Pruszkowski. 1896.

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LNC: STEVE HARRINGTON (inspo)

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