the greatest professional gift is to never take flattery seriously, especially in academia. there is often darkness lurking underneath. trust me on that.
The diaspora tea is that the other diasporas stay mad at the Palestinian diaspora when we call out the bullshit.
The accusation is that we don't care about your community, because we question the imperial narratives.
It's very much the opposite.
We don't hate your joy.
We don't hate your grief.
We donโt hate your freedom.
We've just seen enough bs in our time to sniff it out. We want better for you the same way we want better for us.
Arab women have to work on their anti-Black racism. A Black woman will approach an Arab woman to tell her why something she said/did is racist and the Arab woman will go noo habibti u misunderstood!
Girl iskuti for a minute and listen. Listen to a struggle different than yours.
that white lady who said "i wish we could go back to regular police brutality" really summed up the liberal mind to a degree that i dont even think she meant to