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Richard Hugo, Essay on Poetic Theory: The Triggering Town

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Dina Relles, "In A Sunday Kitchen"

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Tanaya Winder, from “Uncharted Territory of Grief”

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David Ignatow

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sometimes i just get so unbelievably angry about how women & young girls specifically are influenced and manipulated by disgusting entitled men into situations they aren’t comfortable in but don’t know how to escape and they then have to carry that guilt and shame of not being a “perfect victim” with them for the rest of their lives. and the worst part about this is that me and every one of my female friends have either experienced this firsthand or know a girl who has because as long as people are willing to point fingers and shift blame men will continue to get away with their despicable behaviour…. it’s especially disturbing seeing how the era of gen-z men is particularly insidious in how they dehumanise women because of how rotted their brains are like it is not normal for this to be a guy’s opening line. rape culture is beyond pervasive and its just sickening.

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Ruth Awad, “Moral Inventory”

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Please read this interview of a pediatrician working in a Gazan hospital.

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with motaz evacuating to qatar, and the global strike concluding in a few days, some people might take this as a sign to stop donating, spreading awareness about palestine, or just staying informed altogether. please don't do that. please keep talking about it and sharing credible ways to fund humanitarian aid in palestine. it's not over until an official ceasefire is declared, and even then it'll be a long way to earn palestine its statehood. never allow the atrocities committed in palestine to fade out of memory.

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i wake up thirsty and i think of palestine. i go to the doctor’s office and i think of palestine. a sign in the corner of the waiting room says ‘this is a place of healing, disruptive behavior will not be tolerated’ and i think of palestine. they probably weren’t thinking of bombs and snipers and mass graves in parking lots. i call my parents and i think of palestine. i drive to the grocery store and i think of palestine. i look at the clear blue sky and i think of palestine. i put the dishes away and i think of palestine. i feed my cat and i think of palestine. i listen to music and i think of palestine. i read poetry and i think of palestine. i text my friends and i think of palestine. i think of palestine and i think of palestine and i think of palestine

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by the way your voice always matters in the fight against injustice. every single time you speak out against an injustice it matters. it sheds light on it. it empowers others to speak up. it matters

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also can i just say at this point i literally could not give less of a fuck about what selena gomez/taylor swift/beyonce/*insert celebrity here* have to say about palestine because they aren’t!!! saying!!! anything!!!! and that in itself is the loudest statement of all. i genuinely just do not care about the opinions of those who have been too spineless to speak out against one of the most horrific atrocities in human history as it plays out in real time in front of us…. they’re nothing more than gluttonous capitalists who refuse to use their platforms for anything but sucking their deluded fans dry of money.

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i have never prayed so wholeheartedly for anything as much as i have prayed for the collapse of the united states. a despicable regime that calls itself the land of the free while posing the greatest obstacle to the liberation of hundreds of millions worldwide. absolutely fucking shameful.

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Refaat Alareer, an academic and lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza, was martyred along with his family in a targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli occupation on December 7th, 2023. We must continue to stand against this genocide.

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Refaat Alareer, an academic and lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza, was martyred along with his family in a targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli occupation on December 7th, 2023. We must continue to stand against this genocide.

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May we all witness a liberated Palestine in this lifetime and the next

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