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luthienne · 5 days
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The way memory is the ringing after a gunshot. The way we try to remember the gunshot but can’t. The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.
Victoria Chang, Obit
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luthienne · 5 days
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If we were close, we say when we're apart. / If I tell you my body is full of stone caves, / you understand the sadness there.
Sara Daniele Rivera, from The Blue Mimes; "Telephone Game"
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luthienne · 6 days
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Fady Joudah, from the poetry collection [...], excerpt pub. The Yale Review [ID']
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luthienne · 6 days
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hazmat is short for hazardous matthew
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luthienne · 6 days
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Anne de Marcken, from It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over [ID'd]
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luthienne · 6 days
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I want to believe death is only a pause / in our continuous language.
Sara Daniele Rivera, from The Blue Mimes; "Sol"
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luthienne · 6 days
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Around Jerusalem thousands of acres of pine forests were planted by the Jewish National Fund, forests which are both intended to camouflage destroyed Palestinian villages and fashion a new pastoral 'biblical landscape', create a new collective memory and give the impression of an 'authentic' timeless biblical landscape in which trees have been standing forever. But this 'natural landscape' is a carefully constructed scene to camouflage the systematically expropriated land of Palestinian villages, the destruction of olive groves and the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba.
Nur Masalha, Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (p. 376)
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luthienne · 6 days
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“Palestinian girl runs through a row of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem's Old City.”
Photographed by Patrick Baz, 1990.
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luthienne · 7 days
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A cavern inside the body / builds its own wind patterns. A wound can eat me in reverse.
Sara Daniele Rivera, from The Blue Mimes; "With a Destructive Obsession"
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luthienne · 7 days
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Maybe it’s better to have the terrible times first. I don’t know. Maybe then, you can have, if you live, a better life, a real life, because you had to fight so hard to get it away⸺you know?⸺from the mad dog who held it in his teeth. But then your life has all those tooth marks, too, all those tatters and all that blood.
James Baldwin  This morning, this evening, so soon  
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luthienne · 7 days
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girl with the nervous system of a prey animal
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luthienne · 7 days
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Hello there,
I am messaging to ask you to promote an initiative that directly saves Palestinian lives. It is called Operation Olive Branch, which is a collective effort that verifies and compiles the funding campaigns of Palestinians in Gaza who need funds to support their wellbeing. Many of these involve needing money to cross the Egyptian border, afford living necessities and to get urgent healthcare for vulnerable family members. There are families with pregnant women, infants, elderly, sick, and Gazan heroes who are all in dire need of assistance. Since these efforts rely entirely on donations, spreading awareness to the Pro-Palestinian community is invaluable to this initiative. This is incredibly urgent given the possibility of the Egypt border closing and Israel threatening to cut Palestinians off from global banking. Please act immediately.
More information and the spreadsheet for all the families in need of help can be found on operationolivebranch.org
Thank you so much for your time, and all of your hard work in this movement.
thank you so much for sharing this w me <3
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luthienne · 7 days
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Sara Daniele Rivera, from The Blue Mimes; "January" [ID'd]
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luthienne · 7 days
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if you are unable to donate financially to help palestine, you can donate your time by protesting, boycotting, and putting up posters!
if all you have is your device and internet access, you can put your clicks to good use on arab.org. they use the advertising revenue generated by your clicks to help good causes.
and i would urge those able to spare a few dollars to donate to one or more of the following organizations:
eSims for Gaza
Direct aid for Gaza
Care for Gaza
Women for Women International
Institute for Middle East Understanding
Medical Aid for Palestinians
Palestine Children Relief Fund
Muslim Aid USA
Direct Aid for Gaza
Palestinian American Medical Association
Urgent support for medical professionals in Gaza
Emergency Relief for Gaza
Anera
Taawon
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luthienne · 23 days
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"you will look for themes and motifs in media that isn't worth the effort" i will look for themes and motifs in the dirt. on the ground.
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luthienne · 23 days
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In case you weren’t aware, the Gaza esims email is now back up and running and accepting donated esims again. I bought one yesterday and sent it through, it’s really fast and easy to do! If you want to do the same and help people who need it more than ever right now, just follow this link: gaza esims
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luthienne · 23 days
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Illustration for Goodnight Moon, Clement Hurd / Class of 2013, Mitski
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