“You come in military garb, holding a rifle, and talk about peace? Peace is when you put out your hand, and I put out mine, so we hold hands and walk,” Ghazi Othman told the Israeli officer.
Anagha Nair on Israeli actions in south Syria, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social.
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'Sometimes you seem very misanthropic.'
Well, you see, it's 2026 and I can read.
TONIGHT! I'll be reading on behalf of Marilyn Hacker and talking with Deema K. Shehabi about their book Water to Water: Gaza Renga. So grateful to @interlinkbooks.bsky.social and @allshewrotebks.bsky.social for putting this together: a must for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth and #IndieBookstoreDay! ♥️📚
I hate depictions of embarrassment. When I was a kid, I felt secondhand embarrassment so hard watching movies. So, as I'm drafting a scene where the MC is embarrassed, I just got distracted by the history of 1 word. I'm ready to jump down an etymological wormhole just to escape writing this scene.
In these dark times, I got to write a positive story for @msmagazine.com about how women impacted by incarceration are building new futures: msmagazine.com/2026/04/21/w...
Front page of Lebanon’s L’Orient Le Jour newspaper, with a photo of the Israeli flag flying over a town in southern Lebanon. The headline: “The Nakba of South Lebanon”
“The Nakba of South Lebanon” — front page of L’Orient-Le Jour today
A Democrat who was elected sheriff in Pennsylvania last fall hopes others are watching: “It sends a message to elected public safety officials across the country that partnering with ICE is a loser in a district that’s remotely a swing district.”
i love acoustic as a term in the bike world because i think it's cute and whimsical and more of that is good :)
The Sameer Project • @sameer.... 1h X Six months into the so-called "ceasefire" and baby formula remains severely restricted at Gaza's borders. Babies are still starving. HELP: chuffed.org/project/113222... Malnutrition rates remain catastrophic. Mothers, themselves malnourished and under extreme stress, cannot produce milk
From Sameer Project. Please give!
“Six months into the so-called "ceasefire" and baby formula remains severely restricted at Gaza's borders. Babies are still starving. Malnutrition rates remain catastrophic. Mothers…cannot produce enough milk to feed their infants.” chuffed.org/project/1132...
Majlis: Poetry, Multimedia, and Conversation. A free event on April 26 at 3pm at Civic Pavilion, 5 Congress Street in Boston, celebrating National Arab-American Heritage Month and National Poetry Month. Feda Eid wears a traditional Lebanese headdress, Key K. Bird wears a face mask embroidered with Palestinian tatreez, Jess Rizkallah wears a keffiyeh, and George Abraham sits in front of a bookshelf.
Next Sunday, come hear me read at Boston City Hall with three of my favorite artists: George Abraham, Feda Eid, and Jess Rizkallah. April 26, 3pm at Civic Pavilion. Hosted by @boston.gov Organized by Jess Rizkallah and Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah to celebrate #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth
Today's Feature:
"bootstraps" by Jess Rizkallah from Mizna 26.1
Read here:
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“I thought it was a vase—
towering red glass, ornate as a trophy,
snaking tubes to control the water level.”
—“the hookah” by Mandy Shunnarah in @beestung.bsky.social & our #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth list beestungmag.com/issue21/one-...
“KUWAIT
Look, The Soldier Says, Bored, Gun Sleeping Mid-Air. My Father Holding Our Papers
At The Window Like A Bargain, A Begging…”
—“LOOK: 7odood Briefs!” by leena aboutaleb in @anmlymag.bsky.social #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth
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“oh darling it’s been so long
and you’ve been made so
tender by time, succulent at the root,
past prickle and thorn…”
—Rasha Abdulhadi’s poem “Romancing the Artichoke” in @alocasiamag.bsky.social #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth alocasia.org/2024/03/19/r...
Flyer for Water to Water Book Talk with Deema K. Shehabi and Key K. Bird. April 22, 7:00pm, 149 Broadway, Somerville. Presented by All She Wrote Books, Palestine Youth Movement, Somerville for Palestine, and JVP Boston.
BOSTON: Want to celebrate #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth and get a head start on #IndieBookstoreDay? Meet me at Connexion this Wednesday, April 22 at 7pm when I'll be in conversation with Deema K. Shehabi about her book, Water is Water! Can't wait to see you there! Hosted by @allshewrotebks.bsky.social
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A fun game to play with this administration is to simply reverse their statements to elicit the truth. (Hegseth: "We did start this war but under President Trump we're not finishing it") It works every time.
Grading while listening to a playlist with a song that has a repeating refrain: "Get it get it done, get it get it done..." Followed by a song that has a refrain "get it get it get it get it..."
ME: "FINE. YES. GOT IT. I...GET IT GET IT GET IT GET IT..."
🎶GET IT GET IT GET IT GET IT🎶
A graphic with the header, "How to Support Indie Bookstores for $O." Beneath the header, there are six circular icons with graphic elements inside, like a heart or a microphone, which visually represent each suggestion for how to support bookstores. The six suggestions are: "Follow them and engage with their posts on social media.", "Attend events & participate in programming. Many stores host lots of free events!", "Recommend them to your friends, family, & social media followers.", "Thank a bookseller for their book recs. They genuinely care it you enjoy them, & your thanks will mean a lot.", "Leave a great review! Share pictures from your visit.", "Sign up for their newsletter. This is a great way to stay in the know on news & author visits!" At the bottom of the graphic, text reads, "Indie Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 25."
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The hazards of driving north of Boston = the Shore of Northern Aggression.
(@somewingedthing.bsky.social laughed at this joke, so I'm sharing it with you.)
Bike riders pay for all of the infrastructure they use. No fees needed. Everyone pays property taxes and sales taxes. Cars don't even pay for half their own way.
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Kosovo was the first time I realized that all the proclamations of “never again” were bullshit
Even so, the continued destruction of Palestine feels like a unique shock because so many people who claim to care about human rights are actually supportive of it
I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
This is also what folks are experiencing re: student/youth protests.
they're also often written by the same people who write glowing profiles of the assholes who want to kick teenagers and college students off of social media, the primary tool used to organize protests
It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable.
They want you to surrender.
One of the upsides of refusal is that saying "no" to evil and screaming "fuck you, this is wrong, and I will push back any way I can" doesn't necessitate having all the answers.
Some of these babies still haven't gotten out.
Never forgive those who put them there.
We have yet to do enough.
