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Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

Wanted to let you guys know that Let’s Talk Palestine has just launched fundsforgaza, an initiative created for the purpose of highlighting families in urgent need of emergency funds. This list highlights families who’re trying to evacuate Gaza, but which aren’t getting enough attention. Please donate if you can—and whether or not you can, spread this to as many people as possible. The delay between this second and the next could make a difference in whether a family gets to live or not.

Hiba Abu Nada, from I Grant You Refuge (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)

Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, and educator. She wrote this poem on Oct. 10th, 2023. She died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old.

It's here, It's finally translated!

If you want to know more about Palestine and Israel, and you don't like reading, or you don't want to be informed by strictly Arabic sources, or if you want to know about the countre arguments to zionists ideologies, or you want something lighthearted because God knows we're all too depressed right now,

This will be great for you!

Al Da7ee7 is basically the Arabian V sauce, but with a mixture of science, history, and more lighthearted.

The episode tells the history of this genocide by both disproving the Israeli myths and using a chronological order of events.

It's one hour long, but it's divided into segments, and you can watch them separately

It has so much information that even if you're an Arab and know this whole story, you should still watch it. It has more information than what an average Arab knows. You can use such information to argue with zionists online.

And it will be great to educate younger generations too, because it's not too bleak.

Just turn on the YouTube subtitles. It's the official subtitles made by the team

Joan Didion, from Blue Nights

Jimin 'Closer Than This' MV

“We know of course there’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

— Arundhati Roy, The 2004 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, 4 November 2004

Makeup by Pat McGrath at Maison Margiela Spring 2024 Couture

People in Ljubljana, Slovenia, have filled Republic Square, which is right across the street from the parliament building (visible in the first picture), with snow mounds representing Palestinians killed by Israel, and yesterday, they started lighting candles. They noted that in order to light a candle for every Palestinian who's lost their life in Gaza in the last months, they would've needed 25 thousand (way more than they could realistically manage). Photos by Inštitut 8. Marec.

Author/Poet Alice Walker in New Haven, Connecticut (1977), photo by William R. Ferris

Serena Williams for U.S. Open 2004

A selection of works by Palestinian artist Heba Zagout.

Heba was killed by an Israeli airstrike on her home in Gaza along with 2 of her children, on October 13th, 2023. She was only 39. Her dream was to exhibit her art around the world. We can still make that come true. Would you please help me? Spread Heba's art, tell your friends about her, preserve her legacy.

Heba studied graphic design and had a passion for vibrant colors. She spent her life painting scenery of Palestine, including cities she'd never even been to because she was confined in Gaza. Her work features many symbols of Palestinian culture, such as the Dome of the Rock, olive trees, domed stone houses, adjoining mosque minarets and church spires, red poppies (national flower of Palestine), and tatreez - the unique embroidered patterns traditionally worn by Palestinian women.

This is a small selection of my favorites, but you can find much more on her IG, @zagoutheba.

Rest in power. Free Palestine.

By Daniel Clavero for Tank Magazine September 2023

link to full speech by israeli journalist gideon levy

This is the Palestine Film Institute website, it offers free access to multiple shorts, documentaries, films etc, as well as suggestions and a long list of cinematic art made by Palestinians.

This is Aflamuna, a non-profit platform dedicated to sharing independent films from the Arab region with audiences worldwide. Handpicked cult, classic, contemporary, and sometimes unreleased films that are mostly inaccessible to the public are made available free of charge every week. It has one of the most impactful Palestinian movies.

currently reading:

except for palestine: the limits of progressive politics by marc lamont hill & mitchell plitnick

palestine: a socialist introduction, ed. by sumaya awad & brian bean

on my non-fiction reading list:

the question of palestine, edward said

the hundred years’ war on palestine, rashid khalidi

palestinian identity, rashid khalidi

ten myths about israel, ilan pappé

the ethnic cleansing of palestine, ilan pappé

on palestine, noam chomsky & ilan pappé

blaming the victims: spurious scholarship and the palestinian question, ed. by edward said & christopher hitchens

the case for sanctions against israel, ed. by audrea lim

justice for some: law and the question of palestine, noura erakat

freedom is a constant struggle, angela davis

the butterfly's burden, mahmoud darwish

on my fiction reading list:

minor detail, adania shibli

enter ghost, isabella hammad

salt houses, hala alyan

men in the sun, ghassan kanafani

Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalim - The Girl with the Red Scarf (1977)

queerness under apartheid

Starting a collection

Estonia roadrip: Leetse cliffs, Keila waterfall, Rummu quarry. (2017)

The odd colouring is particular to the LomoChrome Purple 35mm film stock.

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Housework" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)

[Text ID: how much of me is you, my love]

— Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"

An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho, 1954).  Japan

Jeffrey Eugenides, from Middlesex

By Agnes Lloyd-Platt for Revue Magazine May 2023

My Lana del Rey inspired look

Various Works by Yoshitomo Nara (2016)

Donna Hayward & Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me // Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, Monday, 3 July 1939) // Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, 21 February 1941) // Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, 16 October 1939) // Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sarte, (7 November 1939) // Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, Tuesday 12 September 1939)

Vincent Van Gogh’s letters with sketches and studies