K 🏳️⚧️
@kartikeyajain.bsky.social
she/them. freelance book editor, literary
translator (Hindi-English) and writer. Prev. @SpeakingTigerBooks @PanMacmillanIndia. Winner of @EnglishPEN’s PEN Presents 2022. #translating political fiction from Hindi 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇶
translator (Hindi-English) and writer. Prev. @SpeakingTigerBooks @PanMacmillanIndia. Winner of @EnglishPEN’s PEN Presents 2022. #translating political fiction from Hindi 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇶
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This is a 🧵 in which I aim to persuade you to support @freelibsnet.bsky.social and, if your finances permit it, to take advantage of the many fabulous offers in its #LibraryLove fun(d)-raiser.
February 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is a 🧵 in which I aim to persuade you to support @freelibsnet.bsky.social and, if your finances permit it, to take advantage of the many fabulous offers in its #LibraryLove fun(d)-raiser.
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Since Bluesky decided to delete the account of a 20 year old kid who yesterday lost his mom to injuries from a bombing (and already lost his brother and father and is now responsible for his remaining siblings). I’ll share his link.
March 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Since Bluesky decided to delete the account of a 20 year old kid who yesterday lost his mom to injuries from a bombing (and already lost his brother and father and is now responsible for his remaining siblings). I’ll share his link.
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Please share and give to help Ahmad's family rebuild their home & lives--they're starving & freezing in the famine & devastation of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. His mother needs treatment for her eyes. They're in urgent need of scarce & expensive essentials, medications & healthcare:
March 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Please share and give to help Ahmad's family rebuild their home & lives--they're starving & freezing in the famine & devastation of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. His mother needs treatment for her eyes. They're in urgent need of scarce & expensive essentials, medications & healthcare:
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Alaa is a dental student whose education was cut off by the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Her family lost their home. Please share or give to help her family, including her little siblings, survive & rebuild their lives in the famine & destruction left by Israel's siege:
February 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Alaa is a dental student whose education was cut off by the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Her family lost their home. Please share or give to help her family, including her little siblings, survive & rebuild their lives in the famine & destruction left by Israel's siege:
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“What makes this moment unprecedented is not only the scale of the displacement but also the accompanying discourse, which increasingly normalizes the idea of permanent forced displacement." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w...
Palestinian Displacement in the West Bank Is Highest Since 1967, Experts Say
The Israeli military launched a wide-scale operation last month against militants in several cities in the West Bank. Now, roughly 40,000 Palestinians have fled their homes — the highest since Israel ...
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“What makes this moment unprecedented is not only the scale of the displacement but also the accompanying discourse, which increasingly normalizes the idea of permanent forced displacement." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w...
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Please share & give to help Muhammad & Iman get their 3 children to safety and rebuild their lives, they're still starving & freezing in the famine and destruction left by Israel's genocide in Gaza. Their daughter's sick & urgently needs help, & healthcare is scarce & expensive amid the devastation:
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Good evening my friends, I am in dire need of your donation no matter how small to raise $500 and buy this device in the picture for my sick daughter, please do not abandon my daughter, give her the warmth of your hearts and save her life😭
Donate Quote Share 🙏😥
gofund.me/60bc475c
Good evening my friends, I am in dire need of your donation no matter how small to raise $500 and buy this device in the picture for my sick daughter, please do not abandon my daughter, give her the warmth of your hearts and save her life😭
Donate Quote Share 🙏😥
gofund.me/60bc475c
February 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Please share & give to help Muhammad & Iman get their 3 children to safety and rebuild their lives, they're still starving & freezing in the famine and destruction left by Israel's genocide in Gaza. Their daughter's sick & urgently needs help, & healthcare is scarce & expensive amid the devastation:
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Raghad is a 20 yo pharmacy student who lost her home to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Her father is paralyzed and needs urgent care. Please share & give to help her continue her university education & rebuild her family's lives after more than a year of famine, bombardment & siege. Donations are slow:
February 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Raghad is a 20 yo pharmacy student who lost her home to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Her father is paralyzed and needs urgent care. Please share & give to help her continue her university education & rebuild her family's lives after more than a year of famine, bombardment & siege. Donations are slow:
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Marah & Motaz lost their home and work & were displaced with their baby Miela by the genocide in Gaza. They're still starving, freezing, and sick after a year of Israel's famine & siege. Please share or give to help them get their child the care she needs, & rebuild their lives:
February 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Marah & Motaz lost their home and work & were displaced with their baby Miela by the genocide in Gaza. They're still starving, freezing, and sick after a year of Israel's famine & siege. Please share or give to help them get their child the care she needs, & rebuild their lives:
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Lubna is a 30 yo mother who lost her home to Israel's ongoing genocide. She has 3 children, including 4 yo Nasser w/ thyroid issues that require urgent treatment. Essentials & healthcare are scarce & expensive under continuing famine. Please share & give to help them survive & rebuild their lives:
February 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Lubna is a 30 yo mother who lost her home to Israel's ongoing genocide. She has 3 children, including 4 yo Nasser w/ thyroid issues that require urgent treatment. Essentials & healthcare are scarce & expensive under continuing famine. Please share & give to help them survive & rebuild their lives:
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Please share & give to help Rina's family rebuild their home & lives amid the rubble left after more than a year of Israel's brutal genocidal famine, bombardment & siege in Gaza. They've lost much of their family, & everything they had. The children urgently need warm clothes/blankets for winter:
February 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Please share & give to help Rina's family rebuild their home & lives amid the rubble left after more than a year of Israel's brutal genocidal famine, bombardment & siege in Gaza. They've lost much of their family, & everything they had. The children urgently need warm clothes/blankets for winter:
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Please share & give to help Kazem's family rebuild their lives amid the famine & devastation left by Israel's genocide. They're homeless & without income, & Kazem's father urgently requires expensive healthcare after a heart attack:
February 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Please share & give to help Kazem's family rebuild their lives amid the famine & devastation left by Israel's genocide. They're homeless & without income, & Kazem's father urgently requires expensive healthcare after a heart attack:
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Four years ago I co-wrote a book about ghosts, cryptids, mythological monsters, and folkloric demons from India.
I haven't skeeted much about it for a while, and maybe you need a distraction from doomscrolling, so here's a thread about a few of the creatures in the book! 🧵
I haven't skeeted much about it for a while, and maybe you need a distraction from doomscrolling, so here's a thread about a few of the creatures in the book! 🧵
February 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Four years ago I co-wrote a book about ghosts, cryptids, mythological monsters, and folkloric demons from India.
I haven't skeeted much about it for a while, and maybe you need a distraction from doomscrolling, so here's a thread about a few of the creatures in the book! 🧵
I haven't skeeted much about it for a while, and maybe you need a distraction from doomscrolling, so here's a thread about a few of the creatures in the book! 🧵
www.thenation.com/article/cult... what a great profile. Going to hunt her stories down
The Polymath of Pittsburgh
Garielle Lutz is one of America’s great writers. Why has her literary genius gone unnoticed?
www.thenation.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
www.thenation.com/article/cult... what a great profile. Going to hunt her stories down
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He sells prints of his art locally in India, on the site chaamandhi.dm2buy.com and his art is also on instagram.com/chaamandhi .
Chaamandhi
chaamandhi.dm2buy.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
He sells prints of his art locally in India, on the site chaamandhi.dm2buy.com and his art is also on instagram.com/chaamandhi .
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“…[Afram] oriented the pop-up & its platform around the celebration of Palestinian cuisine & advocating for Palestinian liberation from Israeli occupation. Through collaboration dinners, Afram has channeled humanitarian relief for refugees in Gaza, raising funds for UNRWA USA.”
bit.ly/3PUaNLQ
bit.ly/3PUaNLQ
Meet the Trans Palestinian Chef Using Food to Fight for Liberation
“For me, it’s just everything for Palestine.”
bit.ly
April 7, 2024 at 4:33 PM
“…[Afram] oriented the pop-up & its platform around the celebration of Palestinian cuisine & advocating for Palestinian liberation from Israeli occupation. Through collaboration dinners, Afram has channeled humanitarian relief for refugees in Gaza, raising funds for UNRWA USA.”
bit.ly/3PUaNLQ
bit.ly/3PUaNLQ
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URGENT: We're raising money for Mohammed Mhawish,
his pregnant wife, their son, his parents, and his sister to flee Gaza. Mohammed is a brilliant journalist who has written for me at The Nation, and he is a wonderful person.
Please give what you can.
chuffed.org/project/1088...
his pregnant wife, their son, his parents, and his sister to flee Gaza. Mohammed is a brilliant journalist who has written for me at The Nation, and he is a wonderful person.
Please give what you can.
chuffed.org/project/1088...
Help Me and My Family Escape Gaza
My name is Jack Mirkinson. I'm raising money for Mohammed Mhawish, a writer and journalist in Gaza, so he and his pregnant wife, their young child, his ailing parents, and his sister can flee Israel's...
chuffed.org
April 6, 2024 at 1:51 PM
URGENT: We're raising money for Mohammed Mhawish,
his pregnant wife, their son, his parents, and his sister to flee Gaza. Mohammed is a brilliant journalist who has written for me at The Nation, and he is a wonderful person.
Please give what you can.
chuffed.org/project/1088...
his pregnant wife, their son, his parents, and his sister to flee Gaza. Mohammed is a brilliant journalist who has written for me at The Nation, and he is a wonderful person.
Please give what you can.
chuffed.org/project/1088...
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Tomorrow is when @podcastle.org opens for Palestinian fantasy stories. I think I'm going to send along a story from my collection. It's about Handala, the child who represents Palestinian refugees, meeting three of the Greek gods in my retelling of the Patronage of Athens.
A snippet:
A snippet:
April 8, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Tomorrow is when @podcastle.org opens for Palestinian fantasy stories. I think I'm going to send along a story from my collection. It's about Handala, the child who represents Palestinian refugees, meeting three of the Greek gods in my retelling of the Patronage of Athens.
A snippet:
A snippet:
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‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths.
Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military and says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military and says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concer...
Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military, says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2024 at 8:59 AM
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths.
Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military and says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military and says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
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Like Aimé Césaire argued, fascism is colonialism turned inwards. Remembering that helps us see Nazism as part of the broader history of European colonialism, rather than as a shocking and unique break from the long arc of history or whatever was supposed to have made us immune to fascism's return
Namibia calls out Germany's move to defend Israel at the International Court of Justice when it hasn't fully atoned for the genocide committed there.
Many of the tactics used on the Nama and Herero laid the groundwork for methods used in the Holocaust.
twitter.com/NamPresidenc...
Many of the tactics used on the Nama and Herero laid the groundwork for methods used in the Holocaust.
twitter.com/NamPresidenc...
January 14, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Like Aimé Césaire argued, fascism is colonialism turned inwards. Remembering that helps us see Nazism as part of the broader history of European colonialism, rather than as a shocking and unique break from the long arc of history or whatever was supposed to have made us immune to fascism's return
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I’m about to be evicted. I need $950 for rent. I’m a black, disabled nonbinary lesbian and just got this apartment after being homeless for months. Please bsky, I need you. www.PayPal.me/troubletheca...
Pay Chrystal Costa using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/troublethecat807 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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November 10, 2023 at 6:00 PM
I’m about to be evicted. I need $950 for rent. I’m a black, disabled nonbinary lesbian and just got this apartment after being homeless for months. Please bsky, I need you. www.PayPal.me/troubletheca...
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Two weeks ago, Jewish Currents interviewed three doctors in Gaza to show the world the direness of their situation. The story was just updated to reflect one of the doctors was killed by an airstrike in his own home, making this quote even more gutting. jewishcurrents.org/we-have-lost...
November 14, 2023 at 12:24 AM
Two weeks ago, Jewish Currents interviewed three doctors in Gaza to show the world the direness of their situation. The story was just updated to reflect one of the doctors was killed by an airstrike in his own home, making this quote even more gutting. jewishcurrents.org/we-have-lost...