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Nikki Giovanni on supporting the liberation of transgender students and the trans community at large 💜

The giant poet Nikki Giovanni has passed away. While the obituaries and tributes pour in, let’s not forget that one of her last acts was to stand in support of Palestinians and in explicit condemnation of their genocide, against two big U.S. cultural institutions.

Israel has bombed Syria more than 350 times since Assad’s fall and now occupies Syrian land equal to twice the size of Gaza (which it continues to annihilate) This rogue state is allowed to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, with complete impunity When will we say enough?

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un! She talked to us, not at us. She stood up for us. She was interested in our new trends, lexicons, music. She responded to letters, read our poems, followed up. We weren’t owed it, but she loved us. She loved us w/ her words & w/ her actions.

y’all cough and laugh at people on chemo + their family members for wearing masks at the grocery store and then you go do your relay for life, breast cancer walks, MS walks, dance marathon, etc. thinking that means you give a fuck about people who are affected by these illnesses

Children burnt alive in melting tents. If you’re American, German, British, your government has made you complicit in this. How can we stand it? How can we go about our lives, celebrate Christmas, as this horror rages on in front of our eyes?

"The world must understand that our hospital is being targeted with the intent to kill and forcibly displace us. We urge the international community to intervene quickly and stop this fierce assault on us, to protect the healthcare system, the workers, & the patients within it.”

Jasbir K Puar. That's it, that's the tweet.

they've killed 5 journalists just today. We will never forget or forgive this.

Israel just killed five journalists and this is how NYT covers it. Just shamefully whitewashing the slaughter of their colleagues.

Searching for orgs and mutual aid groups that can help families in West Khan Yunis with securing tents and material to keep folks warm. Please share and let me know if you can help. My friends are freezing and their tents are not weather-proof

All I want for my birthday tomorrow is to help my friend Osama's family in khan yunis secure a tent to stay warm. Venmo me venmo.com/u/Randa-Jarrar and I will share screenshots once supplies reach him 💕 We need $800

We must stop clinging to the same institutions that are killing us & disappearing our peoples. We are far past the time of "hypocrisy" & "making them live up to their ideals." None of us are required to convince or fix what wants us dead, disappeared, or silent & tells us often!

This AWP, we invite you to read this statement at the start of your panels and events. Thank you to our friends at Haymarket Books, Kundiman, Mizna, Noemi Press, Sewanee Writers Conference, the SWANA Caucus at AWP, and Tin House Workshop for co-signing. 💙

“More and more, I started to see children with penetrating injuries like gunshot wounds. After five, six, seven, eight, I came to the realization that somebody is shooting children,”

Reminder: there’s still time to submit an essay, short memoir or any form of creative non-fiction in the open call for my next queer Arab anthology 📚 Deadline: April 10 Yes, submissions by pen names for safety reasons will be considered. Feel free to re-post/forward to contacts

Update: Eid Mubarak Long live the student intifada!