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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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Margaret Atwood, from True Stories: Poems; "Late Night," originally published in 1981

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The Pocketbook of Love  Mouna Kalla-Sacranie (2016)

This is a handmade, hand-bound, handbook, made with the intention of capturing the essence of what love - in all its many forms - can feel like. The idea for this handbook came to me a few months ago, when I came across this post in which by poet/writer Naveed Khan ( @navk​ ) was asked to describe love - without using the word love. I was so moved after reading his descriptions, I felt compelled to ask him if he would allow me to illustrate his words. He said yes, and so the Pocketbook of Love was born.

He broke his definition of love into the following six pairs which constitute the ‘chapters’ of this book:

1. warmth and luminescence 2. comfort and compassion 3. trust and empathy 4. support and security 5. passion and affection 6. nostalgia and longing.

To see each page in more detail, click here 

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Devin Kelly, “How to Drown”

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when georges bataille wrote, “no greater desire exists than a wounded person’s need for another wound” & when gillian flynn wrote, “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” & when ocean vuong wrote, “sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined” & when lisa m. basile wrote, “did you inherit a sickness? did you blame god? do you believe in god? do you believe in yourself? are you still on fire? did you ever put out the fire?” & when stephen a. guirgis wrote, “why didn't you make me good enough so that you could’ve loved me?”

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Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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the legendary DMX and his orchid growing hobby.

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Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

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if anyone wants the secret to writing: you have to break your leg and then drink a thermos of coffee and then drink an apple martini and then listen to a playlist of Japanese synth music while ignoring your bladder. after all that, you will be able to write 500 words

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Hanoi fruit ladies

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DECOLONIAL ACTION READING

I recently compiled these to add to a comrade’s post about Land Back, but actually I think they deserve their own post as well.

Amílcar Cabral - Return To The Source

Frantz Fanon - The Wretched Of The Earth

Hô Chí Minh - archive via Marxists.org

Thomas King - The Inconvenient Indian

Abdullah Öcalan - Women’s Revolution & Democratic Confederalism

Edward Said - The Question Of Palestine

Thomas Sankara - archive via Marxists.org

Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang - Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor

Other key names in postcolonial theory and its practical application include:

Sara Ahmed

Homi K. Bhabha

Aimé Césaire

Albert Memmi

Jean-Paul Sartre

Léopold Séder Senghor

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

All of these will help you interpret and confront the realities of colonisation, and ideally help us understand and extend solidarity to comrades around the globe. Decolonise your mind, and don’t stop there!

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daily clicks for palestine

donate to feed refugees in rafah

spreadsheet of gofundmes to evacuate families

fundraiser for esims for gaza

orgs to donate to

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because in cases of self immolation it is perhaps most important to amplify the cause for which they are committing the act, here’s what the protestor in dc had to say.

[ID: In a live stream video, the protestor stated, “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it is not extreme at all.”

The protestor ended their statements to the camera with: “This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.” /End ID]

(protestor is currently in critical condition according to the dc metro police dpt)

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— Sierra DeMulder, “To The Woman Hitting On My Boyfriend:” from The Bones Below

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Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]