Jae

“Three books”
― Jr. Vine Deloria, Custer Died For Your Sins

“Some of us sleep in our shoes, others sleep through the waged war.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

“The amount of time we spend in everyday interactions far outweighs the time we spend at formal events. Yet it’s the formal events that are recorded in family histories. The everyday interactions that make up the bulk of our lives get lost. That’s why this topic is so important. Asking your older family members about social interactions when they were children shows something of the time and culture, as well as how your family members have evolved with the changing times.”
― Elizabeth Keating, The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations

“In 2009, Zionist settlers, adorned with backpacks as if going on a weekend camping trip, entered our homes in occupied Jerusalem, escorted by Israeli occupation forces. They claimed that our home was theirs. After a tumultuous battle with two colonial committees in Israeli occupation courts, the settlers seized half of our home. Their takeover was part of a broader effort to ethnically cleanse the entirety of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. We were among 180 Palestinian families facing dispossession orders from Israeli courts that claimed that our homes were built on Jewish lands.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa