THYME TRAVELLERS has arrived in my mail 🌿🧿
My hopeful, mystical queer short story, "In the Future, We Can Go Back Home," is one little part of this incredible anthology of Palestinian speculative fiction edited by @SoniaSulaiman, from @fernpub. ❤️🇵🇸
As people prepare for being back at schools, today Gaza marked the highest number of deaths due to starvation.
This is intentionally engineered by Israel. It is murder.
The best, most heroic, and bravest of us.
Never stopped reporting even when Israel killed his father and many colleagues, including his close friends Ismail Alghoul and Hossam Shbat.
Anas Alsharif. Murdered by Israel tonight in Gaza City.
The genocidal regime must be stopped.
I’m still here. 620 days ago. When kids were being slaughtered, losing limbs, growing hungry and they begged us, in English, to let them live. I never moved on; I’m still here.
Gaza is a concentration camp. Journalists are not allowed in. Palestinian journalists inside are hunted for reporting. Institutions have collapsed. Israel doesn’t want us to be able to assess the severity and expansiveness of its genocide. Israel is trying to hide the truth
Every editor who canceled a story about Palestine brought us here. Every boss who censored an employee. Everyone who said “not this way” to protesters. Every university admin calling the cops. Bloody. All your hands are bloody, and we will never forget.
85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.
The people of Gaza are literally being starved to death by Israel and there’s a complete and total media blackout.
The silence is deafening.
We’re reaching peak dystopia.
The NYT staffed its Middle East desk with IDF vets and ardent Zionists.
It continues to parrot IDF press releases.
It published the most damaging piece of laundered atrocity propaganda in modern journalistic history.
You do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”
They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days.
But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
Tomorrow is the Locus Awards, isn’t it? Seems hard to believe my book, Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, is a finalist. Could this be the first time I win a literary award? Stay tuned to find out.
If you’re not watching people across North Africa come out in droves to celebrate the convoy to break the siege, you’re missing out on one of the most beautiful things humanity has to offer in 2025.
A tsunami of humanity is rising for Gaza. Amplify it. #sumoudconvoy
Those surprised by ICE should revisit US history. The US has always had a problem w racist mobs deputized or permitted by the state to inflict violence on the so-called “other”. The ruling class feeds the anger of poor whites against other poor people to prevent class solidarity.
Every action we witness coming from the oppressor’s side right now reflects weakness, panic & implosion, not a strengthening.
But this is a battle of endurance. We must pace ourselves.
Today, I spoke with a friend who works closely with aid workers on the ground in Gaza. They told me about a mother who survived a bombing but lost her husband and children. The most harrowing part wasn’t just the loss itself. It was how they didn’t die right away, how she sat beside them, speaking to them, watching their breathing slow as their lives slipped away. She’s alive and wants to tell her and their story, and I will make sure this story lives forever.