#awade

[jmfenner91]

I read Bunny by Mona Awad while recovering from surgery & it was SO cool! I had to make a mock-cover for it. 🐰🪓

[firstfullmoon]

Summer Awad, “Syllogism for Palestinian Grief”

[aria-ashryver]

🍉 This is a signal boost for Mohammed Hijazi! 🍉

vetted by 90-ghost here vetted by northgazaupdates here

Folks, this is Mohammed. He is 30 years old, and he is currently displaced in Gaza with his elderly parents. They are trying to promote their fundraiser to evacuate, but they are still very low on funds. To date, they have raised only €2,106 of their €20,000 goal.

In Mohammed's words:

With each step I take, I carry the weight of my lost home and the dreams I once held dear. But I refuse to let despair consume me. I'm fueled by the unwavering belief that there is hope beyond the horizon, a place where I can find safety and sanctuary.

They are relying on the compassion of strangers to see them to safety. Can you be that hope?

I encourage you to read and reblog his posts, as well as follow him at @savemohammedfamily. Your support will mean the world to them -> if you cannot afford to make a donation yourself, your reblog might bring their story to the attention of someone who can.

Any contribution, no matter how small, makes a difference.

[havingapoemwithyou]

moral inventory by Ruth Awad

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: danielapardor

[dozydawn]

“A Christian Palestinian girl places her fingers in a cross-shaped impression in one of the columns of the Church of Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, in a traditional sign of devotion.”

Photographed by Awad Awad.

19 December 2000.

[geryone]

“The Sleepwalker” by Ruth Awad from We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage

[northgazaupdates]

Awad @awad-palestine and his family are currently displaced to Rafah. Their home in north Gaza was destroyed, their large extended family was forced to separate, and they have spent several months fleeing from place to place under threat of bombardment and ground invasion. They have no home or resources with which to support themselves, and they are all sick, exhausted, and scared.

The IOF invasion of Rafah looms ever-closer, and bombings have increased as the occupation begins their scorched earth strategy. People living or sheltering in parts of eastern Rafah have been ordered to evacuate under threat of violence, and the number of areas under evacuation order is likely to increase.

Awad and his family, including his 3 children, are among ~1.5 million Gazans currently in Rafah. They are in immediate danger and living in misery. Please help them raise funds to evacuate Rafah via Egypt as soon as possible. Their fund has made very little progress so far, and the situation grows more urgent by the minute. If you cannot donate, please reblog this post and repost this link

[genterie]

@linaluvsbooks on instagram

[abnormalpsychology]

I like to call this the “In Just Seven Days, I Can Make You A Man” family of media

[hannahlockillustration]

Bunny - Mona Awad

(Let me illustrate some book covers pls)

[chaoticmiserablelover]

My taste in books: sad queers being unhinged.

[luthienne]

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, ed. Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

[heavenlyyshecomes]

The Palestinian Nakba is neither a distant occurrence nor a completed history, and treating it as such only reproduces the Israeli contention that Palestine and Palestinians are romanticized representations of the past. The Nakba is not situated fully in the past, nor is it fully in the present: it transcends the notion of linear, progressive, and positivist history. It is a continuous and complex struggle against occupation, against apartheid, against erasure. It is the daily physical and abstract dispossession of land, identity, culture, and history. It has not ended. And for precisely this reason, the Israeli state has sought to penalize the remembrance of the Nakba. In 2011, Israel introduced the Nakba Law, which authorized the state to withhold funding from any public institution that mourns or commemorates the Nakba.

The looming threat of yet another mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland is ever present, especially today. The Nakba is just as present and significant as it was in 1948. Treating it otherwise is to succumb to Israel’s fabricated narrative of a long forgotten past from which it has progressed. Naming and remembering the Nakba is the most basic precondition for building a movement that can effectively resist the racism and erasure at the heart of Israel’s settler-colonist project.

—Sumaya Awad & Annie Levin, ‘Roots of the Nakba: Zionist Settler Colonialism’ in Palestine: A Socialist Introduction ed. Sumaya Awad and brian bean

[firstfullmoon]

Ruth Awad, “All the Oranges of Tripoli”

[softpoetrygf]

yes babe you’re so bunny a certain hunger my year of rest and relaxation boy parts the pisces gone girl milk fed nightbitch the bell jar the virgin suicides earthlings pizza girl vladimir and ily for it