Status Updates From The Hollow Half: A Memoir o...

Horrifying to read early zionist plans to destroy Palestinian villages—new deadly kinds of bombs, land mines, etc, British-trained militias. A real self own here. Horrifying we haven’t all been taught this. This is all so heavy.

Writing is gorgeous & also this is so heavy & hard to read

“Out of the queerest of spaces, the ugliest of beings, the most extreme forms of abjection, beauty and revolution abound,” notes Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi about Gaza.

Perhaps we will find a relentless woman digging thorns out of her field. “No,” her weapon and her seed. Banished from the brutal order, mother of resistance, of those who dream beyond.

She’s murdering me, folks

“There were many sorrows he had names for... But he had not understood that these were only shadows, the inverted silhouette of the life he might have lived.

For a few hours [in ‘Ibdis], he walked in the light of what almost, but never, was.

There was no sign of construction or cultivation; this land had been razed to desecrate, to break the traces of Arab lineage & all suggestion of return.”