colonizers write about flowers.
i tell you about children throwing rocks at israeli tanks
seconds before becoming daisies.
i want to be like those poets who care about the moon.
palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons.
it’s so beautiful, the moon.
🇵🇸IM NOT EDUCATED ENOUGH IS NOT AN EXCUSE
Here is a list of list of resources and people you can follow to educate yourself on what’s going on in Palestine RIGHT NOW🇵🇸
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This, exactly! Don't let this make you become colder. Find it within you to allow this to turn you into a kinder and friendlier person instead. Become a shelter for those in need now, and always. It is already so disheartening to care in a world where you are punished for it.
“I’m not a political person” is never an acceptable excuse. Indifference is not a neutral stance. If you exist in this world you have got to get used to being uncomfortable and upset with things as they are and willing to do something with those emotions.
in an endless cycle of absolutely loving my wip/writing for it everyday and absolutely hating it/not touching it for weeks. currently throwing tomatoes at my google doc
I am once again begging publishers and authors to be cognizant about the damage they cause sexualizing teen characters. There is a huge difference between teens exploring their sexuality and teens’ sexuality being billed as “spicy” for an adult audience
I just saw a tweet that said we should normalise books being about adults in their twenties instead of teens, and I think what we should normalise is more people going to libraries and asking librarians for book recs