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Sfarda L. Gül

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Сфарда Л. Гюль

An artist and writer of pretentious purple prose since her early childhood brought up in a police state, Sfarda L. Gül’s (alias) creative focus hones in on the macabre and introspective, the grotesque and juxtaposing—a deconstruction of social ideology and human suffering influenced by her upbringing, queerness, historically persecuted mixed ethnicity, and dark-sided emotional disposition. Every story strives to be unapologetically anti-authoritarian, decolonial, anti-cop, anarchist, and pro-humanity.

When not engaging in art, Sfarda is enthralled in ethnography, linguistics, filmmaking, and social activism aiding to uplift ethnic and queer minorities of her native Eastern Europe, SWANA, and Central Asia.

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	Non Serviam (The Hypostasis of Dissent, #1) by Sfarda L. Gül (Goodreads Author), Сфарда Л. Гюль 2.89 avg rating — 55 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Marx's Economics for Anarchists: An Anarchist's Introduction to Marx's Critique of Political Economy

by Wayne Price

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The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism

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Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

by Sa'ed Atshan

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“You wanted to empty your guts, then.”
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“used tight as sutures and orné with ossiform stucco and curlicues”
― Sfarda L. Gül, Non Serviam

tags: pretentious, thesaurus, unreadable, word-salad

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“boom! boom! boom!”
― Sfarda L. Gül, Non Serviam

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“Once chipping away at empire commenced, it became unthinkable to not see politicos, of now or centuries past, for exactly what they were: soulless, bloated, necrophagan creatures glutting on decay of their own assembly.”
― Sfarda L. Gül, Non Serviam

tags: anarchism, fantasy, grimdark, philosophy, politics, socio-political, speculative-fiction

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“Because I’m empty without rage. I don’t know how else to live.”
― Sfarda L. Gül, Non Serviam

tags: fantasy, feminine-rage, grimdark, righteous-rage, speculative-fiction

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“[She] said ‘blood does not wash off’ and she was right. Blood does not forget, either. Blood congealed and crusted and stained evermore. Blood knew what it was like to be free.”
― Sfarda L. Gül, Non Omnis Moriar

tags: dark-fantasy, dark-fiction, fantasy, gaslamp, gothic, grimdark, speculative-fiction

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“You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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“I etch my own face upon my wicked flesh.
I am my own devastating god.”
― Rachel McKibbens, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism