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The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.

—Ghassan Kanafani

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- lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson

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And speaking of Israeli land theft and settler attacks, don't for a second forget that Palestinians are fighting against this violence day and night. There are demonstrations held on a weekly basis every Friday by the residents of villages like Nabi Saleh or Beita, where a US activist was shot in the head by Israeli forces earlier today. Some of these demonstrations have been ongoing for years even, like in the village of Bil'in, a struggle captured so poignantly in the documentary Five Broken Cameras (available with subtitles on youtube and highly recommended). So, as long as Israeli violence continues, resistance against it will persist.

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oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

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Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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in your 20s you must rediscover the joys of arts and crafts to stave off spiritual decay

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I kinda lived half of 2023 (maybe more) like a drowning rat in a bucket but this year I'll live like a normal rat. outside of a bucket

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was playing "fetch" with the ocean today by tossing stones into it and watching them wash back up with the tide a few meters away, and it got me thinking about grief and the things we carry with us even after we lose them

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Christa Wolf ― Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

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Kate Baer, from What Kind of Woman: Poems; “Back to school shopping”

[Text ID: “I do not say a life without you is not / worth living. I do not say I’ve memorized every inch of / your frame. Instead, I wave at your hand waving. / Instead, I say a quick goodbye.”]

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it is up to us to save the tradition of homemade valentine's cards

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writing a letter like writing a kindergarten paper. today i went on a walk. i love flowers. i’ve been feeling bad sometimes. okay i love you forever bye <3

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Not just the court but the UN as well

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If you want to be the kind of person who would do something, then just do it, and you'll be that kind of person. There are no pure personality archetypes for you to fall into, they're an illusion that your brain constructs out of partial datasets and media prerogatives. Let the radical unknowability of the Other set you free.

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“If I am killed, write about me and tell the world about my dreams”

The martyr, Reem Mahmoud Abu Daya. Reem's greatest fear was not death itself, but rather being remembered only as a statistic after being killed in the Israeli aggression.

She often told her friend Mohammed, "If I am killed, write about me and tell the world about my dreams. Tell them that I had undergone LASIK surgery a few months ago and started seeing Gaza with my own two eyes.

Tell them that I want to buy a camera to capture the beauty of Gaza."

Reem Mahmoud Abu Daya is not just a number; she will be remembered. Reem, along with her family, was martyred in an Israeli airstrike on January 7, 2024.