. #PsychicMilitancy w/ Prof. Lara Sheehi "IN SESSION #7: Kicking power in the shins with Maura( @mauraf.bsky.social )Finkelstein & Michel DeGraff" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANmL...
Posts by Maura Finkelstein
New post on the particular vulnerabilities of elderly people living through the Zionist genocide in Gaza:
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Please buy and read Terms of Servitude! And if you order it from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social all proceeds go to The Sameer Project! 🙏🏼
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I had the great privilege of spending time with “Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle” by @omarzahzah.bsky.social - this is essential reading for us all.
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hi all - please read Maura's (@mauraf.bsky.social) substack post on mutual aid, and give to the Sameer Project's Give Warmth to Gaza campaign (linked in her post).
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Everyday is a good day to support Mona and her family - they’ve lost everything in the genocide, please donate below if you have the funds to do so 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
2/ Far too many powerful Zionist stakeholders- including our college and university administrators, boards of trustees, and boards of regents - are guilty of supporting and enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
1/ I’m testifying on university complicity in genocide on Saturday, October 25th at the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul:
gazatribunal.com
5/ I’ll get there eventually. With this one, I think I finally got close.
It took over three years for this essay to find a home (a reminder that publishing has no true timeline) and I’m so thrilled it finally found the perfect one 🩶🤍🖤
4/ I printed it out & cut it up and kept & color coded its sections & moved them around and started all over again, looking for its structure and story. I used Les Calanques by Melissa Febos as my beacon - a guide towards the kind of essay I wanted to be able to write someday.
3/ In January 2022, I started submitting it to lit mags. Since then, it was rejected by almost 50 different places, to the point that I wondered if it would eventually end up in a back drawer file on my computer, an exercise in writing meant only for me. Still, I kept working on it.
2/ I wrote this essay in the Fall of 2021, thanks to the urging and support of Sarah Sentilles. It’s a time capsule- a version of me I no longer recognize. It’s also the most vulnerable and true thing I’ve ever written.
1/ Honored to have this essay of mine out at @psmokejournal.bsky.social
www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2025-no...
🍁"A cube who is growing. and growing unsure of himself. #4" by Sean Cho. A
🍁"The Vampire Wife" by Sara Moore Wagner
🍁"Changing Channels" by Susan Shea
🍁"Backseat Driver" by @earlgreysnail.bsky.social
Nonfiction
🍁"Uninvited" by @mauraf.bsky.social
"If we are not willing to lose things, then we are going to lose everything." @mauraf.bsky.social
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Today is my friend Mona’s 19th birthday. Mona is a beautiful writer, a talented poet, an aspiring cook, & a recent graduate. There are so many reasons to celebrate her but what is a birthday in Gaza?
Please consider supporting her campaign 🙏🏼
www.gofundme.com/f/help-mona-...
3/ this is the non-negotiable ground floor of solidarity:
2/ and a commitment to embracing a true anti-Zionist politic, which requires we support Al-Thawabet, dedicate ourselves to Palestinian liberation, & work towards a world without the Zionist state & a future without Zionism
1/ Today is the Jewish day of atonement- for those of us who are Jewish, this must/should mean atonement for our involvement/complicity in projects of Jewish supremacy, whether intentional or not,
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Morning pages
3/ The Inherent Ableism of Genocide Denial (Part II) Contextualizing Autism in Gaza:
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2/ The Inherent Ableism of Genocide Denial (Part I)
Contextualizing Cerebral Palsy in Gaza:
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1/ I wrote a two-part series about cerebral palsy and autism in Gaza and how genocide is a disability justice issue - please keep supporting The Sameer Project:
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I’ll be praying for you and I’ll donate when I can ❤️
Done, I’m so sorry this is happening….
Please support Imad, Aya, and their two-year-old daughter Lara - donate through the link below and please circulate 🙏🏼
3/ Anyone claiming Palestinian safety is bound up w/Israeli safety is a Zionist who wants a “liberal” apartheid state where genocide can continue out of view. F that. The goal is a liberated Palestine & the end of Zionism/Zionist entity. Everything else is in service of Empire.