Shayma Sadia Saiyid

[Aurat March - عورت مارچ @AuratMarchKHI]

Those harassing, beating and killing women are facilitated by lawyers and law enforcers to escape from courts in broad daylight. How convenient!
#justiceformahashah https://t.co/3Brv7y2NVi

[Aurat March - عورت مارچ @AuratMarchKHI]

One of protest camp’s demand is strict action against those aiding & abetting suicide through sexual abuse, intimidation, blackmail. We want an accountability system that ensures justice for victims of suicides resulting from sexual harassment & violence. #justiceformahashah

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Sylvia Plath:

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

In 1936, the great poet Lorca was murdered by fascists. As I sat in his home in Granada in 2019, I heard his voice telling us how it happens, how it can happen again, and how we can honor the voices tyranny has silenced.

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Li-Young Lee:

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one.
"This Christmas, our invitation to the global church — and to Western Christians in particular — is to remember where the story began. To remember that Bethlehem is not a myth but a place where people still live. If the Christian world is to honour the meaning of Christmas, it must turn its gaze to Bethlehem — not the imagined one, but the real one, a town whose people today still cry out for justice, dignity and peace."
To read my full article:
https://t.co/OsQdYMmuls via @AJEnglish

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

"What if we joined our sorrows, I'm saying. / I'm saying: What if that is joy?"

Ross Gay from The Book of Delights:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Mahmoud Darwish trans. by Mohammed Shaheen:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Raymond Carver:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Jorie Graham:

[WWF-Pakistan @WWFPak]

WWF-Pakistan believes that protecting those who work for the environment is as important as conserving nature itself. The protection and conservation of Pakistan’s environment and biodiversity must remain above all forms of political or personal bias.

The recent FIR against former Islamabad Wildlife Management Board chairperson Rina Saeed Khan, a journalist and conservationist who has long championed the conservation of Islamabad’s natural spaces, raises concerns. We urge that the process ahead remains transparent, fair, and free from any form of bias. Safeguarding Pakistan’s natural heritage should unite us all, not divide.

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

The last poem I wrote for WOUND:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

William Bronk:

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Harvard student Zehra Imam, who spoke out for Palestine in her commencement address, describes the academic repression at the school during the Trump administration.

“I took a class called ‘On Israel/Palestine.’ That class no longer exists.”

[Sana Kazmi @sanakazmi]

DG ISPR: "When it comes to two nuclear-armed nations, such a conflict is absurdity. In reality, there is no space for war - anyone who is carving out space for war is attempting mutual annihilation." 👀

[Shayma Sadia Saiyid @shayma1]

Heartbreaking. Beautiful.
"All day I moved as if walking was no different from falling."

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

This poem by Ama Codjoe is astonishing:

[Shayma Sadia Saiyid @shayma1]

"Praise him" -- beautiful

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

This beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”

— Audre Lorde

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

“You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.”

Joy Harjo: