DCCox

Interested in indie publishing esp. in UK, zines, protest, inclusivity, Arab world, women's rights - and BCFC. she/her views=my own.

[DCCox @purplecanute]

This post also highlights publishers sharing this important history @BrisRadHis @TangentBooks @bigcatreading

[British Library Contemporary British Collections @Contemporary_BL]

Dr Paul Stephenson OBE was one of Britain’s most important civil rights campaigners as a leading organiser of the Bristol bus boycott in 1963. Following his recent passing, this post highlights resources in the Library about his life and work: https://t.co/GqpnsM3Q4T

[DCCox @purplecanute]

@RafaelNadal Thanks for the memories Rafa. Seve is no longer here to say the same and wish you well, but if he was, he would. With true affection.

[Good Shepherd Collective @Shepherds4Good]

Take a moment to realize that this man, after months of near-daily torture—with the full knowledge that at any time, he could be kidnapped again—immediately gave this report upon his release. There is so much bravery in this. Listen and use this information to mobilize people.

[Samer Badawi @readsamerbadawi]

Reflections on Nakba Day:

Some years ago, I gave a lift to an Israeli author, an anti-zionist whose grandfather’s signature is affixed to Israel’s declaration of independence. In the trunk of my car, where he had just put his suitcase, there was a box sealed well before my years and, in my mother’s scrawl, labeled: “History.”

My Israeli friend asked about the contents. But I couldn’t answer. Whenever I asked my mother what her History held, she demurred, saying only: “Keep it in a cool, dry place.”

I understood why when I opened it myself. In that box, I found hundreds of faded, yellowing photographs—my mother’s history, hidden all those years in sepia stills.

There she was—tomboyish and slight—beside her mother, who was stitching. And there were Solomon’s Pools, where my grandfather drowned.

These were the Holy Land’s apocrypha, I thought, subsumed for so long by another’s narrative. They told us: Ours was a land without a people. Ours was a desert, and they made it bloom.

But history, the images showed, had been sullied. They showed my mother, laughing on a terraced hill, land stitched with olive trees. They showed the vine, made famous not by wine, but by my grandmother’s stuffed grape leaves.    

That life of more than seven decades ago is too far-gone, though. Like any person with more years lived than left, my mother is too wise to inveigh against the inevitabilities of time. Instead, like millions of her generation who remember a land before loss, what she really wants is something more elemental. She wants the right to access those memories, on her own terms, as she looks back on a life in waning.

This is what we Palestinians mean when we speak about the right of return and, in its absence, our ongoing Nakba.

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

Solidarity with Ilan Pappe

[Matthew Hollingworth @mfjhollingworth]

#Rafah: Our main warehouse is now inaccessible. No aid has entered from southern crossings in 2 days. Thousands of ppl are on the move. Only 1 bakery is still working. Supplies of food & fuel in #Gaza will only last 1-3 days. Without them, our operations will go into standstill.

[Matthew Hollingworth @mfjhollingworth]

Humanitarians are #NotATarget

Too many missions, too many countries where we say this, too many brave souls lost. Too few people listening.

Humanitarians are #NotATarget. #Gaza 2023-2024

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

This, by @thea_lim, for all the writers and poets still silent on Gaza

[DCCox @purplecanute]

@libe @cocoboer This is despicable. Didn't think @libe could stoop so low. Since when did seeing people forced into starvation become an opportunity to crack a joke against their faith? This is what dehumanisation looks like.

[British Library Contemporary British Collections @Contemporary_BL]

New post for #WomensHistoryMonth! It highlights a selection of recently published works available to registered readers in the @britishlibrary's St Pancras reading rooms, focusing on women's contributions and voices: https://t.co/LX4WXXynUC

[DCCox @purplecanute]

Hamas' murder and rape of civilians and kidnapping is awful. But two wrongs do not make a right. A worse wrong cannot heal the pain. Swee Chai Ang wrote these words in 'From Beirut to Jerusalem' about bombing 41 years ago. Sounds familiar? Now is the time to stop this horror.

[DCCox @purplecanute]

The bombing is terrible and count the deaths. It's not the whole story. We let the bombers off the hook. Water treatment and pumping, electricity generators, food distribution, health care - bombed, blockaded and out of action. More people die - now in Gaza as in Iraq '03.

[Ayshah Tull @AyshahTull]

Great to be able to interview @malorieblackman ahead of the opening of her exhibition at the @britishlibrary

Co-curated by @sandrastorytime

Still in disbelief that she had over 80 rejection letters, she told me she learnt more from failure than success

A lesson for us all

[DCCox @purplecanute]

So much goodwill towards this exhibition @britishlibrary with generous loans and support from @GPI_Archive @KingsleyNebechi @DapsDraws @PenguinUKBooks @ignatius_sancho @AdvocacyAcademy and of course @malorieblackman Cool design by @Poor_collective Thanks to all - enjoy!

[Mayo Agard-Olubo @MayoPoetry]

The opening of the @malorieblackman exhibition at the @britishlibrary was such a brilliant event. So many amazing Black British authors were there including the legend herself.
The exhibition is a triumph. Moving, inspirational, powerful and also free! Make sure you go see it

[Emily Drabble @EmilyDrabs]

Ok everyone has to go to @britishlibrary to see the amazing Malorie Blackman Power of Stories exhibition - it opens tomorrow and it’s free! @malorieblackman you are an icon, a beacon of wonderful ness and I’m so excited about this show! Great to see @UKLaureate medal too!

[Oxfam @oxfamgb]

Over 2 million people are trapped in #Gaza. They can’t get out and little to no aid can get in. A #ceasefire is the only way to deliver the peace and life-saving support that people so desperately need. Here's why..Over 2 million people are trapped in #Gaza. They can’t get out and little to no aid can get in. A #ceasefire is the only way to deliver the peace and life-saving support that people so desperately need. Here's why..Over 2 million people are trapped in #Gaza. They can’t get out and little to no aid can get in. A #ceasefire is the only way to deliver the peace and life-saving support that people so desperately need. Here's why..Over 2 million people are trapped in #Gaza. They can’t get out and little to no aid can get in. A #ceasefire is the only way to deliver the peace and life-saving support that people so desperately need. Here's why..Over 2 million people are trapped in #Gaza. They can’t get out and little to no aid can get in. A #ceasefire is the only way to deliver the peace and life-saving support that people so desperately need. Here's why..Over 2 million people are trapped in #Gaza. They can’t get out and little to no aid can get in. A #ceasefire is the only way to deliver the peace and life-saving support that people so desperately need. Here's why...

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Miss @vonderleyen.This is NOT just a humanitarian crisis.This is a catastrophy of apocalyptic proportions,possibly a genocide implemented through modern means of warfare that the EU must help to bring to a HALT.Palestinians arent disposable. They cant be put in tents in the Sinai

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

Retweet this if you agree with Andy McDonald. Make it massive so @Keir_Starmer gets the message enough is enough .

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

#CeasefireNOW