As someone who isolates & seeks sometimes an (unhealthy) amount of solitude I can’t express how vital it is to have people who won’t let you get too comfortable in disconnecting & remind you of the importance of your presence
I know more queer Palestinians, including myself, than not. Cut the conversation about our people not ‘accepting’ us. we exist & we’re here. Liberation is a ripple & I promise u we arent seeking for gay rights b4 fighting for human rights. we cant explore love if we’re not alive.
I could go on about this. This is why there is power in being a designer. There is so much work to be done in regards to designing for human bodies and minds, and not for the exterior world and the consumer.
Every morning I open my eyes I just smile thank you for letting me be here another day another chance another moment to be and try and learn and feel and see and hear and touch
First 4/8 looks from my debut design collection as an independent Palestinian designer
‘Apocalyptic Rebellion’ SS24
“A direct ode to the world’s largest open air prison”
It has been breaking my heart every time I look around me and I see so many souls yearning for community and gentleness in a world so cold and a system so corrupt
‘Standing Martyr’
design 002 from my debut collection ‘Apocalyptic Rebellion’
An honouring to 🇵🇸 resistance & permanence against the oppressive apartheid machine. Referencing human bodybag silhouette that is ‘gifted’ as ‘aid’ through western/US funding, in the name of genoc1de.
such a precious window when sadness turns into anger because that’s when the transmutation into creative execution happens. I’m angry, and I deserve to release it, and it deserves to be seen, and I hope it liberates more than just me
architecturally speaking - seeing isr*eli settlers run to bomb shelters in their city that is less than 80 years old shows you the depth of genocidal planning, in which pre design stages of creating ‘Israel’ meant that they knew what came with their lifestyle is a need for-
despise the narrative of
“what if it was your family?”
you’re telling me the only way you sympathize and can feel is if you are the centre of the situation? Does your heart not beat to the same pulse of this universe? Do you not see yourself when you see the colour of blood?
what you don’t know is about the underground scenes of it all, how we shapeshift and maneuver under political pressure, no matter where in the diaspora you are, there’s an underlying code of trust and safety for each other, it’s all a form of resistance
in the west where digital footprint and documenting your existence is the only form of validation, they’d never understand how we exist and move, just because you don’t see it posted online it does not mean it doesn’t exist. some things you can’t teach.
Look 007 from my debut SS23 collection “Apocalyptic Rebellion”
‘Open-air prison’ Headscarf
A direct ode to our world’s largest open-air prison, occupied Palestine. Restraint, rebellion, breakthrough.
you don’t get to separate yourself from other parts of the world and pretend things don’t effect you. The same way you use the internet’s reach from globalization to find ways to work and live and create a smaller world, it applies to our collective liberation as well.
I’m supposed to perform the same level as all my peers, make a living, and manage my 20s, all while my people are being slaughtered, and at the end of it all I have no central (not diaspora) community or city to go home to, am I getting this right?