https://ethicaldative.com/
Glory on the site: EthicalDative
'Thoughts on art and language by an amateur painter and former linguist.'
Again, I have no idea how I found this site but I'm fucking glad I did. JMN gives rich and personable insights into art and poetry - in the past two months they've shared translations of Ancient Arabic poets Al-Khansā and ^Umar ibn Abī Rabī^a. This is cool to me for a lot of reasons, and this is my first time reading Arabic poetry.
My only interaction with this alphabet has been the 'mistranslated' Farsi in Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School. I'm linking Zeena Yasmine Fuleihan's great critical essay of this aspect of Acker's novel below:
https://blog.pshares.org/the-overlooked-mistranslations-in-blood-and-guts-in-high-school/
JMN accompanies the majority of their posts with line drawings, mainly bespectacled portraits. I would like all of them tattooed on me, if I could afford the food bill. They are great and I imagine JMN must provide illustrations for anthologies.









