natasha is truly the best of us. please help them out❤️

gofundme.com/f/help-natasha…

ballast is a year old today. the world is a year worse, a year more genocidal. grateful to have this work in the world and thankful to everyone who has engaged with it; deeply sad this is the world we work in and against.

haymarketbooks.org/books/2005-bal…

2024 we not arguing back and forth with people who want to kill us

I have just finished, in one sitting, quenton baker 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸's *ballast* ... & tho I rarely comment on literature like this, I feel compelled to say:

ballast is one of the most brilliant pieces of writing I have ever encountered. I am astonished, bereft, shaken. A profound experience.

Refaat Alareer reads from Light in Gaza

zero punctuation gang pull up

my sibbbb 🥺❤️

Really grateful that my books are published with presses who express principled, material support for Palestinians, esp in times like these. Support ALL of these amazing & brave presses, esp the smaller ones who need us now more than ever

US poets who haven’t spoken out toward Palestine: What are you saving yourself & poetry from? I ask you to stand alongside Mosab Abu Toha, in words and actions. He never had the luxury of silence. Israeli Oppressors & Occupiers can’t crush poetry’s power to sing toward freedom.

Alright, since you decided to ask me, I'll tell you why the same guy you praise for 'wonderful analysis' also concludes, based on the facts & evidence, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza:

the genocide in Congo is not 'silent'

*you* not listening to their cries for help does not equal *them* being silent.

2023 NAKBA

Hell no I didn’t want to be the photographer who document this tragedy

I want my Jewish community to understand that Palestine will be free. It’s inevitable. Palestinians will never cede their land to settlers & look at the protests today — the world is with 🇵🇸 This global solidarity is beautiful & there’s nothing more Jewish than resisting genocide

The LARGEST Palestinian protest in the history of the United States.

I’m so proud 🥹

There were hundreds of thousands of people marching on the White House today and I saw only a single helicopter and no major news crews

Eternally disappointed. Exhausted beyond words. Every time I think I've reached the floor of my exhaustion, a new floor emerges.

Please read, sign, & share widely. Boycotting the poetry foundation until they take a clear stance against genocide.

docs.google.com/document/d/1O3…

the entire book is great but the second long sequence of quenton baker 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸's ballast (@haymarketbooks) is really something remarkable. go read this book ++

I'm going to breakdown parts of this Atlantic article - how dangerous this and the ideas presented in it are.

This piece isn't concerned with truths of colonization & Israel, but with dismissing Palestinian claims of history & crimes by Israel.

It's Nakba denialism.

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these are the names of the 2913 palestinian children killed by the israeli military as of the 26th october 2023.

never forgive, never forget.