BREAKING: Bay Area residents have taken over the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco to condemn the ongoing genocide in Palestine, responding to the international call for solidarity from Gaza.
They did not mean to kill the children.
They meant to.
Too many kids got in the way
of precisely imprecise
one-ton bombs
dropped a thousand and one times
over the children’s nights.
—@FadyJoudah
“not feeling welcome on campus at elite university” vs the bodies of children executed with their hands tied behind their backs being carried around in bulldozers feels like a very insane conversation to be having. i won’t be having it
BREAKING: @PENAmerica’s staff union has gone public about the organization’s attempts to suppress the “political activity” of its workers—a striking blow to (what is left of) the org’s reputation for protecting free speech. Read our statement on the state of the org below:
Sentimentality, the parading of excessive & spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty. The wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray aversion to experience, fear of life, an arid heart; & it is always, therefore, the signal of secret & violent inhumanity—of cruelty
— James Baldwin
🧵A writer's published work should not be yanked from circulation because it sparks public outcry or sharp disagreement. At its best, literature is a bridge, connecting us across differences; writers help guide the rest of us across that bridge. https://t.co/GlJLbZPf2E
the guernica masthead continues to shrink. they have one reader left, not a single poetry, fiction, or copy editor. it’s sad to see a literary institution fall apart but it’s more sad (and shameful) to see a magazine publish hate.
My fiction team collectively and unanimously resigned from Guernica today. I'm proud of them, and the work we did over the last two years - six editors and nine readers, volunteering and collaborating with great writers to publish weird, beautiful stories. I'll miss it.
"...there is a solidarity whose horizon is assimilation, and there is a solidarity whose horizon is liberation...The former is hierarchical...The latter is citational. It names those it loves. " - @FadyJoudah https://t.co/QlXCf04xCW