Fatima Moosa

“Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don’t know something, go to the library and look it up.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.”
― Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

“Suddenly, he felt that the world had no place for him, despite how large it was.”
― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

“Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy? Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?”
― Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness