Many of us know well how narratives are used to demonise and dehumanise. We also know their material and bodily effects.

…the dried out husk to words that string like beads on the internet abacus of he said he said they did they did suffer the little children time to die.

History is relentless, Ordinary people tired of the same boot on their backs, Are transmogrified like Jesus on the cross.

I am a part of the universe with which the universe is angry, a part of the earth of which the earth feels utterly ashamed, a wretched human towards whom other humans cannot maintain neutrality.

We Deserve a Better Death, Our bodies are disfigured and twisted,
Embroidered with bullets and shrapnel.

once the number of active, detectable mobile devices slips below a ‘certain’ number, the area gets the all-clear to be bombed

Even if we had had candles or paraffin lamps, there were constant aftershocks, which would have made them too dangerous to use. These aftershocks were more frightening than the initial quake.

'My sister, our land has a throbbing heart, it doesn't cease to beat, and it endures the unendurable. It keeps the secrets of hills and wombs. This land sprouting with spikes and palms is also the land
that gives birth to a freedom-fighter. This land, my sister, is a woman.'

'For a Palestinian, the olive tree represents
life and a symbol of resistance and attachment to land. Its roots reach deeply into the ground, telling how Palestinians...'

Arab, Australian, Other
In a drop-down list,
who I am does not exist in English,

violence
enacted by a box,
these algorithms
of absence

There are only two reasons why, we might die suffocating in your self-serving, hating, thieving, blind with narrow and short-sighted self-interest, world. You are better financed and you are better armed.

Khaled Nabhan, loving grandfather to Reem and Tarek bid farewell to his granddaughter kissing her eyes, rubbing his beard against her face, calling her 'my soul of my soul'. Film of them travelled around the world. Reem 3-years-old and Tarek 5-years-old were killed by Israeli bombs in Al Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza.

Khaled Nabhan, loving grandfather to Reem and Tarek bid farewell to his granddaughter kissing her eyes, rubbing his beard against her face, calling her 'my soul of my soul'. Film of them travelled around the world. Reem 3-years-old and Tarek 5-years-old were killed by Israeli bombs in Al Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza.

I died today, among many others, my grandpa died too, and our neighbours, my best friend, the one with braided hair yes, and our sweet sweet doctors, our motherly nurses … We heard a blast, then a whoosh of some kind, and all gone. Our hospital was wiped out just like that.

This feels like an unprecedented time. A time when we can see clearly the machinations of settler-colonialism and how we are all linked as Indigenous peoples.

How can you accept that you and your children live in a world where there are no red lines? In a world where international institutions cannot bring a cup of clean water to 2 million besieged people, in a world controlled by excessive, unrestrained power!

My grandmother is a huge inspiration in my passion for embroidery. She passed away on 1 January 2023, Allah yerhamha. Despite her old age and persistent hand tremor, my grandmother would continue to celebrate her Palestinian heritage every day by handcrafting some of the most beautiful embroidery pieces.

Stop the genocide. End the siege. End the occupation. Dismantle apartheid. Decolonize Palestine.

Solidarity to stop genocide on Palestinians because genocide survivors understand the pain of genocide.

you tell me you’re not really into oud

when i have dedicated my life to mastery of us

it takes discipline, i say

they tried to call it theirs,

but it is part of my body.

the oud cannot give you anything unless

you give of yourself

you give and you spend time

and you hold it

you have to hold it well

for it to share its secrets.