3/ Register to attend, in person or online. This lineup is 🔥🔥🔥

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2/ Far too many powerful Zionist stakeholders- including our college and university administrators, boards of trustees, and boards of regents - are guilty of supporting and enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

5/ I’ll get there eventually. With this one, I think I finally got close.

It took over three years for this essay to find a home (a reminder that publishing has no true timeline) and I’m so thrilled it finally found the perfect one 🩶🤍🖤

4/ I printed it out & cut it up and kept & color coded its sections & moved them around and started all over again, looking for its structure and story. I used Les Calanques by Melissa Febos as my beacon - a guide towards the kind of essay I wanted to be able to write someday.

3/ In January 2022, I started submitting it to lit mags. Since then, it was rejected by almost 50 different places, to the point that I wondered if it would eventually end up in a back drawer file on my computer, an exercise in writing meant only for me. Still, I kept working on it.

2/ I wrote this essay in the Fall of 2021, thanks to the urging and support of Sarah Sentilles. It’s a time capsule- a version of me I no longer recognize. It’s also the most vulnerable and true thing I’ve ever written.

🍁"A cube who is growing. and growing unsure of himself. #4" by Sean Cho. A
🍁"The Vampire Wife" by Sara Moore Wagner
🍁"Changing Channels" by Susan Shea
🍁"Backseat Driver" by @earlgreysnail.bsky.social
Nonfiction
🍁"Uninvited" by @mauraf.bsky.social

3/ this is the non-negotiable ground floor of solidarity:

2/ and a commitment to embracing a true anti-Zionist politic, which requires we support Al-Thawabet, dedicate ourselves to Palestinian liberation, & work towards a world without the Zionist state & a future without Zionism

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

3/ The Inherent Ableism of Genocide Denial (Part II) Contextualizing Autism in Gaza:
open.substack.com/pub/maurafin...

2/ The Inherent Ableism of Genocide Denial (Part I)
Contextualizing Cerebral Palsy in Gaza:
open.substack.com/pub/maurafin...

I’ll be praying for you and I’ll donate when I can ❤️

Done, I’m so sorry this is happening….

3/ Anyone claiming Palestinian safety is bound up w/Israeli safety is a Zionist who wants a “liberal” apartheid state where genocide can continue out of view. F that. The goal is a liberated Palestine & the end of Zionism/Zionist entity. Everything else is in service of Empire.