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writer, artist, facilitator. user @ gmail. all pronouns. dyke politics, t4t pracksisss. treat me like fire. opinions mine, RT/like =\= agree.

[👿 @elleiswrite]

ALL GOD’S FOLK BE HERE

— church sign on the way to my cousin’s house

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

4 years ago today an Israeli sniper killed Shireen Abu Akleh

[عاتيق 𓂆 @qudratiKath]

dear palestinian cinema admirers, i recently discovered a google spreadsheet compiling the list of palestinian cinema index on letterboxd. The spreadsheet has downloadable links to over 700 docs and films.

Kindly, retweet and spread the word!

https://t.co/mihqpeg7gQ

[Bisan Owda @bisanowda01]

Free them all, free the baby diapers and formula that Israhell stole from the boats, and stop ISRAHELL from placing the new world order of colonization,
violence and chaos!

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

As Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. CNN Producer Abeer Salman reports from Umm al-Khair, where razor wire has blocked Palestinian children from going to school.

[Namwali @namwalien]

This is one reason that Toni Morrison reminds me of Nabokov, as I say in ON MORRISON.

Oprah once asked her, "Is it true that sometimes people have to read over your work in order to understand it, to get the full meaning?"

Morrison replied, "That, my dear, is called reading."

[stony morrison, PhD @rrandolphjr]

First and foremost, Morrison is a trickster…

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

The main writers and doxxers behind Canary Mission has been identified as Elihu David Stone, Yehuda HaKohen, Abigail Bornstein, Aharon Dikel, and Alexander Malbin Duncan. All American-Israelis. https://t.co/3e3BXeZ8bM

[Zartonk Media @ZartonkMedia]

“Who Remembers the Armenians” by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish.

[👿 @elleiswrite]

for those keeping count within minutes of my mother picked me up from the airport “i can’t make you love me” came on

this time, nancy wilson’s cover 🥹

[David Ramírez Álvarez 🇨🇺 @DvidTwit]

“We are around 250 Palestinians studying medicine in Cuba, and once we complete our studies, we can go back to Palestine to assist our people”.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

the young man searching for the body of his brother mentions his brother had a broken front tooth.
the paramedic points to three unidentified bodies.
the first bag he unzips turns out to be the remains of the person he's looking for.
his family has been searching everywhere.
now they know.
now they can give their son a proper burial.
they will pray over his body. remember him.
the search is over.
now their hearts can break without the pain of hope.

[ebonically intelligent papi 🌻 @julianakilrose]

I’ve been tryna read about different organizing models particularly unions that aren’t tied to workplaces or a shared housing experience (so, other than tenants unions)

I found out about this neighborhood union in Atlanta, pretty cool

https://t.co/wpnuIRlR7O

[👿 @elleiswrite]

capitalist (derogatory) is wild to me

we not living on the same exhausted planet, can’t be lol (also derogatory)

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

❤️‍🩹Exactly one year ago, 23-year-old Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat was killed when an Israeli occupation drone struck his car in Beit Lahia as he drove toward the Indonesian Hospital to go live after reporting from northern Gaza. For months, he documented the destruction of areas like Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, becoming a defining on-the-ground voice for Al Jazeera Mubasher since October 2023.

Earlier that same day, he reported on the killing of fellow journalist Mohammed Mansour in Khan Younis, before he himself was targeted hours later in what witnesses described as a direct strike on a clearly marked press vehicle. In this video, a young girl tells him she wants to become a journalist like him, drawn to the way he spoke, reported, and stayed present when others could not, turning his work into something people looked up to, not just watched. Rest in peace Hossam

[👿 @elleiswrite]

right now i’m reading paule marshall’s brown girl, brownstones and looking up new-to-me words every other page and feeling tender about selina and jamaica kincaid’s annie john

[👿 @elleiswrite]

*peeks in*

hi 🥹 happy real new year! i hope y’all are in good spirits on this app no longer on my phone lol. i’m not doing much but working my keyboard clicky desk job, listening to the birds sing whenever i can, and reading a lot of fiction and harmony holiday on substack

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

‼️“It’s not your land for you to say it has the right to exist.” In this exchange, a speaker addresses disgraced New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani directly, rejecting his repeated insistence that Israel has a “right to exist” while Palestinians continue to live under occupation and attack.

The criticism comes amid backlash in pro-Palestine circles after Mamdani distanced himself from renowned Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa following pressure from pro-Israel groups connected to work by his wife, illustrator Rama Duwaji. Abulhawa is widely recognized as one of the most prominent Palestinian literary voices of her generation, author of the international bestseller Mornings in Jenin, translated into more than 30 languages, along with The Blue Between Sky and Water and Against the Loveless World, all exploring Palestinian displacement, resistance, and survival. Beyond her writing, she founded Playgrounds for Palestine, a nonprofit building playgrounds for Palestinian children in refugee camps and occupied areas, and has spent years advocating for Palestinian rights and dignity.

Her critics point to past statements condemning Israeli terrorist policies, including rightfully describing Israeli terrorist settlers as “parasites", language many supporters argue reflects the brutality Palestinians face under settler colonialism.

Pro-Palestine activists say Mamdani’s public condemnation of Abulhawa’s rhetoric amounted to throwing a Palestinian voice under the bus to shield himself from political pressure, fueling accusations of hypocrisy from those who say genuine solidarity cannot coexist with affirming the legitimacy of the system oppressing Palestinians.

[Hala ayyad🇵🇸🍉 @Halaayyad838998]

We feel deeply ashamed having to appeal to you for help in securing the most basic necessities of life in the 21st century. We have grown weary of primitive living conditions and life in tents.😥
#GazaGenocide‌ #Vina2026 #Iran

https://t.co/QlnsaJqOz4…

@BulentY_