Rebecca Ruth Gould
@rrgould.bsky.social
Global poetics+politics @SOAS |author Erasing Palestine @versobooks.bsky.social |The Persian Prison Poem |Writers & Rebels |🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist also on Substack rgould.substack.com
rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Basem Khandaqji, author of the Arab Booker award winning A Mask the Color of the Sky, is on the list of Palestinian prisoners to be released. May he see freedom soon!
His book is forthcoming in English @europaeditions.bsky.social
www.europaeditions.com/book/9798889...
His book is forthcoming in English @europaeditions.bsky.social
www.europaeditions.com/book/9798889...
October 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Basem Khandaqji, author of the Arab Booker award winning A Mask the Color of the Sky, is on the list of Palestinian prisoners to be released. May he see freedom soon!
His book is forthcoming in English @europaeditions.bsky.social
www.europaeditions.com/book/9798889...
His book is forthcoming in English @europaeditions.bsky.social
www.europaeditions.com/book/9798889...
"I wrote about embroidery as a form of hope, not merely a craft. When I threaded my first stitches, they were not just threads—they were a message, whose words declared: We are still here, dreaming and striving to make our dreams come true."
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"I wrote about embroidery as a form of hope, not merely a craft. When I threaded my first stitches, they were not just threads—they were a message, whose words declared: We are still here, dreaming and striving to make our dreams come true."
"Neither it nor I knew what wrong we had committed. And so, I decided to learn embroidery from my neighbour in displacement, Umm Aide, a primary school teacher. I stitched the details of my memory onto everything and from everything, reviving my soul with a dream that had always dwelt within it."
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"Neither it nor I knew what wrong we had committed. And so, I decided to learn embroidery from my neighbour in displacement, Umm Aide, a primary school teacher. I stitched the details of my memory onto everything and from everything, reviving my soul with a dream that had always dwelt within it."
"I would embroider its landmarks into my heart before they settled in my memory. How I longed to learn embroidery, so that the whole world might see the beauty of my homeland, the beauty in its details. Then, one day, they assassinated my little town, and it began to fade from existence."
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"I would embroider its landmarks into my heart before they settled in my memory. How I longed to learn embroidery, so that the whole world might see the beauty of my homeland, the beauty in its details. Then, one day, they assassinated my little town, and it began to fade from existence."
Bristol now, calling for an end to the siege and genocide in Gaza and in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla
October 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Bristol now, calling for an end to the siege and genocide in Gaza and in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla
Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza is out on 30 October. My review coming soon. Clearly an essential read orbooks.com/catalog/comp...
October 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza is out on 30 October. My review coming soon. Clearly an essential read orbooks.com/catalog/comp...
Not even close to enough but nice to see the Palestinian flag flying in front of Bristol City Council @bristolcouncil.bsky.social @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social
(I just wish the wind was better and the flag stayed permanently).
(I just wish the wind was better and the flag stayed permanently).
September 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Not even close to enough but nice to see the Palestinian flag flying in front of Bristol City Council @bristolcouncil.bsky.social @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social
(I just wish the wind was better and the flag stayed permanently).
(I just wish the wind was better and the flag stayed permanently).
Important book on Gaza from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social colleague Dina Matar, scheduled for publication by Saqi Books in November:
Archiving Gaza in the Present
Art, Memory and Erasure
Edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter
saqibooks.com/books/saqi/a...
Archiving Gaza in the Present
Art, Memory and Erasure
Edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter
saqibooks.com/books/saqi/a...
September 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Important book on Gaza from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social colleague Dina Matar, scheduled for publication by Saqi Books in November:
Archiving Gaza in the Present
Art, Memory and Erasure
Edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter
saqibooks.com/books/saqi/a...
Archiving Gaza in the Present
Art, Memory and Erasure
Edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter
saqibooks.com/books/saqi/a...
Also it makes the UN look complicit in the destruction of UNRWA. Original story here www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...
August 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Also it makes the UN look complicit in the destruction of UNRWA. Original story here www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...
Excited for Palestine is Everywhere, featuring Lujayn (translated by the Lighthouse Collective) & many other amazing writers.
“Amid a world-historical moment marked by unknowability & loss, this collection offers essential reading for those interested in Palestinian liberation.”
“Amid a world-historical moment marked by unknowability & loss, this collection offers essential reading for those interested in Palestinian liberation.”
August 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Excited for Palestine is Everywhere, featuring Lujayn (translated by the Lighthouse Collective) & many other amazing writers.
“Amid a world-historical moment marked by unknowability & loss, this collection offers essential reading for those interested in Palestinian liberation.”
“Amid a world-historical moment marked by unknowability & loss, this collection offers essential reading for those interested in Palestinian liberation.”
UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
August 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
The UN announced today that 1373 aid seekers have been killed while seeking aid since May. You can read the story of one of them, a mother killed while seeking food for her children, here.
As told by a friend in Gaza:
medium.com/global-liter...
As told by a friend in Gaza:
medium.com/global-liter...
August 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The UN announced today that 1373 aid seekers have been killed while seeking aid since May. You can read the story of one of them, a mother killed while seeking food for her children, here.
As told by a friend in Gaza:
medium.com/global-liter...
As told by a friend in Gaza:
medium.com/global-liter...
Happening now! Reach out to your governments and raise the alarm!
July 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Happening now! Reach out to your governments and raise the alarm!
I have friends who run a shelter near the UN offices in Deir al-Balah. They reached the same decision today. People cannot be moved and there is nowhere to go. They asked me to circulate this message widely. “We received evacuation orders but decided to not evacuate at all. /1
July 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I have friends who run a shelter near the UN offices in Deir al-Balah. They reached the same decision today. People cannot be moved and there is nowhere to go. They asked me to circulate this message widely. “We received evacuation orders but decided to not evacuate at all. /1
UK doctor speaks out about the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system while being arrested for supporting Palestine Action.
“I’m thinking about all the medical staff and medical facilities in Gaza that have been destroyed by the by the genocide by the Israeli Defence Forces.”
“I’m thinking about all the medical staff and medical facilities in Gaza that have been destroyed by the by the genocide by the Israeli Defence Forces.”
July 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
UK doctor speaks out about the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system while being arrested for supporting Palestine Action.
“I’m thinking about all the medical staff and medical facilities in Gaza that have been destroyed by the by the genocide by the Israeli Defence Forces.”
“I’m thinking about all the medical staff and medical facilities in Gaza that have been destroyed by the by the genocide by the Israeli Defence Forces.”
For my forthcoming book (Sex & the State: Marriage and the Origins of Gender Inequality) I am reading Emmeline Pankhurst's autobiographical history of the suffragette movement, My Own Story (1914) and am amazed by the parallels between the tactics of this movement & Palestine Action,
July 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
For my forthcoming book (Sex & the State: Marriage and the Origins of Gender Inequality) I am reading Emmeline Pankhurst's autobiographical history of the suffragette movement, My Own Story (1914) and am amazed by the parallels between the tactics of this movement & Palestine Action,
Parliament & Hansard have removed
@zarahsultana.bsky.social’s statement “We are all Palestine Action” from her speech of 2 July 2025.
It mattered when she said it then & it matters now.
This is the censorship regime of an authoritarian state: erasing statements from its official record.
@zarahsultana.bsky.social’s statement “We are all Palestine Action” from her speech of 2 July 2025.
It mattered when she said it then & it matters now.
This is the censorship regime of an authoritarian state: erasing statements from its official record.
July 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Parliament & Hansard have removed
@zarahsultana.bsky.social’s statement “We are all Palestine Action” from her speech of 2 July 2025.
It mattered when she said it then & it matters now.
This is the censorship regime of an authoritarian state: erasing statements from its official record.
@zarahsultana.bsky.social’s statement “We are all Palestine Action” from her speech of 2 July 2025.
It mattered when she said it then & it matters now.
This is the censorship regime of an authoritarian state: erasing statements from its official record.
Thank you @greenparty.org.uk for
unilaterally opposing the proscription of Palestine Action @palaction.bsky.social — the only political party in England to fully stand on the right side of history in a time of genocide.
Overall vote was 385 in favor of banning, 26 against.
unilaterally opposing the proscription of Palestine Action @palaction.bsky.social — the only political party in England to fully stand on the right side of history in a time of genocide.
Overall vote was 385 in favor of banning, 26 against.
July 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Thank you @greenparty.org.uk for
unilaterally opposing the proscription of Palestine Action @palaction.bsky.social — the only political party in England to fully stand on the right side of history in a time of genocide.
Overall vote was 385 in favor of banning, 26 against.
unilaterally opposing the proscription of Palestine Action @palaction.bsky.social — the only political party in England to fully stand on the right side of history in a time of genocide.
Overall vote was 385 in favor of banning, 26 against.
“Our form of communication is gunfire” A must read investigation of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. archive.is/2025.06.27-0...
June 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“Our form of communication is gunfire” A must read investigation of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. archive.is/2025.06.27-0...
In which I argue for a #decolonial leftist approach to free speech that looks beyond the liberal tradition & is in solidarity with liberation struggles around the world https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/decolonizing-free-speech?r=7not0&utm_medium=ios
June 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In which I argue for a #decolonial leftist approach to free speech that looks beyond the liberal tradition & is in solidarity with liberation struggles around the world https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/decolonizing-free-speech?r=7not0&utm_medium=ios
Thank you @palfest.bsky.social for featuring Lujayn's latest story published in @newlinesmag.bsky.social and edited by @idreesahmad.bsky.social in their weekly dispatch “We pine for the country that was once ours” (& for all you do to shine a light on Palestinian lit)
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/lo...
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/lo...
May 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thank you @palfest.bsky.social for featuring Lujayn's latest story published in @newlinesmag.bsky.social and edited by @idreesahmad.bsky.social in their weekly dispatch “We pine for the country that was once ours” (& for all you do to shine a light on Palestinian lit)
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/lo...
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/lo...
Recent update from friends in central Gaza (Sunday 1pm):
"We are receiving more wounded people from the ongoing attacks. More than 160 martyrs from this morning till now. The wounded number is very high too.
We ran out of blood units and the lives of many people depend on giving them blood."
"We are receiving more wounded people from the ongoing attacks. More than 160 martyrs from this morning till now. The wounded number is very high too.
We ran out of blood units and the lives of many people depend on giving them blood."
May 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Recent update from friends in central Gaza (Sunday 1pm):
"We are receiving more wounded people from the ongoing attacks. More than 160 martyrs from this morning till now. The wounded number is very high too.
We ran out of blood units and the lives of many people depend on giving them blood."
"We are receiving more wounded people from the ongoing attacks. More than 160 martyrs from this morning till now. The wounded number is very high too.
We ran out of blood units and the lives of many people depend on giving them blood."
Words from a friend in Gaza, with tatreez made by her friend in the background: "I’m a doctor. They teach us at medical school that we need to be strong and not allow the suffering of patients we attend to affect us but I can’t stop myself from feeling sad and helpless."
May 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Words from a friend in Gaza, with tatreez made by her friend in the background: "I’m a doctor. They teach us at medical school that we need to be strong and not allow the suffering of patients we attend to affect us but I can’t stop myself from feeling sad and helpless."
Embroidered map of Palestine, received from friends in Gaza. It’s an honor to hang this on my wall and inscribe it onto my heart.
April 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Embroidered map of Palestine, received from friends in Gaza. It’s an honor to hang this on my wall and inscribe it onto my heart.
Thrilled to be reading (and reviewing) the extraordinary memoir of life in Gaza before 2023. Pre-order it now!
(and thanks to @orbooks.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention)
(and thanks to @orbooks.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention)
April 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Thrilled to be reading (and reviewing) the extraordinary memoir of life in Gaza before 2023. Pre-order it now!
(and thanks to @orbooks.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention)
(and thanks to @orbooks.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention)