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Paul db Watkins
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✍️🎥 Writer, English Lit, and Film Professor pauldbwatkins.com (he/him)
🎵Vinyl Aficionado and DJ
📚 Author: 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕟’ ℂ𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕒𝕟: 𝔹𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕜 ℂ𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟 ℙ𝕠𝕖𝕥𝕣𝕪, 𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℂ𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕫𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕡 (WLU Press)
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🍉 "Now’s the Time” (MLK/Parker/Basquiat).
As O’Connor/Sadaqat wrote: “And if there ever is gonna be healing / There has to be remembering and then grieving / So that there then can be forgiving / There has to be knowledge and understanding.”
July 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
May we all carry Sadaqat’s courage to speak out. But more than that, may there be a ceasefire. May peace—lasting and just—still be possible. #freepalestine
July 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The UN reports that one-third of people go multiple days without food—and where over 1,000 have been killed by Israeli forces while seeking aid.

Even more alarming: 85% of the population is now in the “fifth stage” of malnutrition—often irreversible, even if food becomes available.
July 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“Famine” draws a direct line between patriarchal power structures, colonialism, and the British starvation of the Irish. A fierce advocate for Palestine, Sadaqat would be appalled by the inhumanity of the current “famine” [Genocide] in Gaza.
July 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM