Two Palestinian poems, 'upsidedown,' quiet, tongue in cheek poems by the under-the-radar genius Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة & hats-off to Protean Magazine for their unflinching work. If you've never tasted the Palestinian Maqlubeh, or if you have.
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i’ve just turned down the pen/dau prize, in solidarity with palestine + the protest against pen america’s refusal to take a clear, principled stance on the israeli genocide against the palestinian people

In just the last few days, several authors have withdrawn their books from PEN awards consideration.
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Despite my deep gratitude to the judges who believed in my book, BIANCA, I have withdrawn from consideration for the 2024 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. I made this choice in keeping with the boycott sustained against @penamerica, and in solidarity with Palestine. 🧵

Please read/sign this petition calling for CUNY to reinstate adjuncts who have been fired for speaking out against genocide and in support of Palestinian liberation. One of them is my friend, the brilliant writer, translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda: t.ly/GvlF7 CUNY4Palestine

🧵I declined the PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation, in solidarity with the 1300+ writers who've decried PEN America silence on the genocidal murder of Palestinians, & with the PEN America United fight to maintain free speech for PEN employees,

Please share. Bayan 𓂆 is a young female journalist in Gaza. Her brother was killed in front of her, she has been missing after receiving death threats from Israel Defense Forces. She may still be alive. CNN BBC The Guardian please investigate

'Among the horses my heart was a horse,/ in the night my heart was a night' a timeless poem by one of the great Palestinian writers today, and translated by one of the finest hands and hearts Huda Fakhreddine هدى فخر الدين

Remarkable book to get. Anonymous poet with tension on the page and fierce moral clarity

For People's Archive of Rural India, I wrote about how climate change is impacting the mental health of rural women athletes.

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Thank you, Earth Journalism Network, for supporting this series.

Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza Writers Against the War on Gaza, who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: newyorkwarcrimes.com

'This is a book on (mis)translatn & hope, on the theft of rage & language, on thieving them back.'

always read Khairani Barokka

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Definitely showing this in my class when we talk about the denial of sexuality & infantilization of folks with intellectual disabilities! This is great. Love finding good new media to bring into my classroom. Thanks CoorDown & Madison Tevlin!

This is the essay I pulled from Guernica; thank you The New Inquiry

On International Women's Day, sharing a piece, freshly-rejected from a dude-edited journal (he felt a little called out!) one that calls for supporting primary caregivers, of every kind of life form, so that they can create at home, and not on retreat.
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Adding Alt text to the image going around to boycott the Oscar’s on the 10th

To My Mother by Mahmoud Darwish when he was in an Israeli prison. Love to the mothers of Palestine and their children who miss them

What links a social uprising in Chile, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Amber Heard? Well, according to #WhoTrolledAmber the answer is disinformation, on a vast scale

I spoke to Alexi Mostrous about the podcast, for the The Independent

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