#Sakr Sakr

[beguines]

Omar Sakr, Non-Essential Work

[firstfullmoon]

Omar Sakr, “Every Day”

[apoemaday]

Every Day

by Omar Sakr

Every day I say a prayer for Palestine And every day a dog runs away with it Vanishing down an alley, tail wagging To benefit who knows which wretch. I tell myself it doesn’t matter who receives The gift of my kindness. Such lovely lies We bestow upon ourselves. Sometimes I am the dog fleeing with a bastard’s Love clenched in my slavering jaw. Sometimes I am the one curled at the end Of an alley, blessed by the unexpected Warmth of a snuffling mouth telling Me I am not forgotten. Every day I say a prayer for Palestine.

[houseofpurplestars]

Refusal in the genocide by Omar Sakr

He walked to the gate

Accelerant in hand.

I can’t make this beautiful

I hope you understand.

His voice was clear.

He tried to light

The spark of his life

Several times.

I’m stuck on his fingers

On the catch

On the flash

On the free

On Falastin

Screaming

I don’t need a poem

I need a fire extinguisher

But oh god

Nothing can quench this light.

[geryone]

“A Song of Love” by Omar Sakr from We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage

[goreprofonde]

My father was for the longest time a plastic smile locked under the bed. Before that, he was whatever came out of my mother’s mouth. He was I’ll tell you when you’re older. He was winding smoke, a secret name. That fucking Turk. He was foreign word, distant country. I gave myself up to her hands which also fathered; they shaped me into flinch. Into hesitant crouch, expectant bruise. Into locked door, CIA black site- my body unknown and denied to any but the basest men. I said beat my father into me please, but he couldn’t be found. And when he was, I wished he remained lost. He blamed himself for the men I want.

- Omar Sakr, to be a son.

[llovelymoonn]

omar sakr son of sin

kofi

[scatteredprayerbeads]

Posted by Omar Sakr on Dec 11, 2023

[tamelee]

If novels are canon Sakura's terrible moments in fillers are canon too. Like wondering who'd se save between Sasuke and Naruto, hitting Naruto for no reason, RTN scenes.

Well yeah, in the logic where "either everything is canon or the Manga isn't canon either", that would be true but it's not and it makes no sense. They all have terrible moments in filler though. (And unpopular opinion but I don't even like the SNS filler where they're stuck to each other 👀)

[artemisiatridentata]

Tweet by poet Omar Sakr, in response to a tweet about the WHO describing Al-Shifa Hospital as a “death zone”, as 25 heroic healthcare workers were trying to keep nearly 300 patients, including 32 babies, alive under horrific conditions.

Tweet reads: “I would once again like to invite you all to stop invoking history's judgement. We are alive and capable of condemning it now. We must do so with a clarity and conviction sufficient enough to bore into time—that's what *makes* history. Us. Now.”

[cosmicriff]

Do you have any more thoughts and whatnot about Skoodge and Keef? Saw your art and thought they were really cute!!!

Yeah!! So I imagine they would meet during the time period where Skoodge was living in Zim’s basement, and he starts getting bored so he begs to come to skool with him

Keef is really excited to meet one of Zim’s “family members” and they initially bond over both knowing Zim, but eventually start actually liking talking to each other!

[beguines]

Omar Sakr, Non-Essential Work

[firstfullmoon]

Omar Sakr, “On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante’s Inferno,” in Non-Essential Work

[confusedbyinterface]

Guys good news if you have piss poor reading comprehension you can always get a job working for the Murdoch press!

[gustaving]

[corvidcrybaby]

Being a leftist Jew rn is so fucked up. I still hold true to these principles because I believe they hold up to the most ethical and logical scrutiny but I look around at all my colleagues and find next to none of them are executing the critical thinking that I consider a necessity to be a proper leftist. I see them falling into the same logical traps as the liberals they insist they are so different from, engaging in the same snooty better-than-you attitudes that democrats who share memes calling Trump "the Orange" think are hysterical, espousing effectively the same attitudes as the alt-right memelords you find on 4chan, but doing it while parroting leftist ideology that they clearly do not understand. I never once believed in horseshoe theory before this time in my life. I do now. For what other conclusion can one draw when they realize that radical political spaces of either stripe are now equally dangerous? If not the leftist ones being arguably moreso at this time? Reconciling with my Judaism, truly, has shifted my perspective on things into a space I never thought I would embrace and will never come back from, I do not think. I feel like Emma Goldman during "My Disillusionment In Russia." Are these my people? Is this the revolution I believe in? No, and no. Idk man, I'm just tired.