fargo nissim tbakhi
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palestinians are reminding us that decolonization is not abstract. it is material. it is violent. it is not popular, it will be resisted and debated by the entire structures of the monstrous colonial world. and it is the only way forward, and it is the only path of life.
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every single mundane thing we do to live ought to be a reminder that those same daily activities have been systematically, brutally stolen from palestinians. carry that with you every moment for the rest of your life. and remember how many found and find ways to do them anyway
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settlers live lives of death. built on death. death filling their mouths and lungs. producing and reproducing death. it is all they know and all they can think and all they will ever taste.
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she was a tide pod
but he
wasn't hungry
~rupi kaur
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proud to announce i have decolonized poetry. it’s been a long hard journey— and i couldn’t have done it without my capital one credit card,
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poets are like “ars poetica in a double sestina ending in a triple sonnet crown composed of triptychs and when you read it with the rest of my poems it becomes one giant haibun winged with my mother’s eyeliner that morning she wept me into a ghazal”
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“from the river to the sea” is a speculative act of imagining that holds a wide range of liberatory possibilities/promises within it, and also sounds cool as hell and feels wonderful to scream
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hard not to take this not as a failure of “international law” but as its logical function
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cultural workers: we can use this and other principled commitments to pressure our organizations and institutions into joining. do they want to work with writers? then listen to what we’re saying, get in line and commit to boycott.
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i wrote something about writing, “craft”, and what i think palestine requires of those who write in english from the imperial core in this hour of genocide. i hope that it might be useful
Fargo Tbakhi (
@YouKnowFargo
) writes with a reflective essay on the role and duty of writing amidst a genocide. How do hegemonic priorities dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for Gaza, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology?
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nobody:
white poets on twitter: friends, remember- your tender roots need to be given water :) find your sun :) stop moving youre a plant :) your feet should be in wet dirt and fertilizer at all times :) literally youre a plant :)
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enjoyed red white and royal blue? check out this one next!!
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i can’t do anything without knowing that it has been deprived, in so many intersecting ways, from palestinians across palestine. let that knowledge galvanize you towards doing everything you can to insist on our right to life. everything in your power. fight the fuck back
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feel like divestment is the order of the day, materially and emotionally and intellectually. time to divest from institutions, representation, your friends, your workplace, your government, your family, your ideas of power. new world struggles to be born, etc
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glory to our martyrs and glory to the resistance, always. long past time to take a side and stick to it. find a place to stand and stand there for the rest of your life
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the things i need to say right now are not protected by free speech
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writing poems for your partner is like when a cat brings a dead bird they found and puts it on your doorstep. i am the cat.
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i love being palestinian cause someone you haven’t talked to in years will message you a video of your people getting shot and be like “🤬🤬🤬 this is so messed up!”
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right now you have to make a choice. you have to make a choice about what you will do with your body and with your soul. and you have to make that choice again and again every day for the rest of your life
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seeing these videos of liberated palestinian prisoners is the greatest balm, truly. free everyone, free palestine, free parking
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taking another break from this web site, i have things to do
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unfathomable levels of care in response to unfathomable levels of cruelty
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seeing students i taught and collaborated with and learned from posting in solidarity with palestine is enormously meaningful. small hope feeding larger hope
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with love, i don’t want to see poems, i don’t want to hear about poems, i don’t want anyone to share my poems right now. maybe someday that might matter but right now it does not
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Smh how I'm gonna eat this frosty when it's lookin at me like I just adopted it from a shelter
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turned 25 today! i feel grateful to be: stubborn, Palestinian, patient, kind, a good friend, a good artist, surrounded by ones who love me, and alive ✨🧿❤️
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every death under occupation is a murder and the only question is degree
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it’s my birthday. i’m 24 today, more than twice as old as my cousin was when he was murdered by israel in 2016. i wrote this dream of spiritual repair for him. read it if you like, but more importantly, organize for BDS wherever you are and however you can. love and survival🌾🪨
"Balfour in the Desert" by Fargo Tbakhi is a journey across desert sands: an ever-changing landscape that hides countless dangers and limited miracles.
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i guess all i want to say is that there are people in my life choosing to love me and mine right now, and that is something i won’t ever forget. a reminder that love can be capacious, political, rigorous, and possible.
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may this country die the death it builds for itself each day. may all empires rot and all those who refused to relinquish their empires rot with them.
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i wrote about a book of poetry i find harmful, and about the way settler colonialist poetics require palestinians to be written and read. endless gratitude to
@poetry__project
for giving this (long, difficult, experimental) piece space
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“there’s no money in poetry!”
~someone who won a single prize that came with more money than my mom has ever had in her life
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new solmaz sharif poem on the anniversary of john brown’s raid on harpers ferry reminds me of one of my favorite solmaz sharif poems
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“…there is no time for despair. We owe it to every martyr to fight, we have obligations, we have made commitments. When everything seems designed to generate resignation, to produce acquiescence, those commitments are life-giving, and can see us through till the end.”
“We awoke to a world without the martyr Dr. Refaat Alareer, whose words open this essay.” Read this dispatch from the Palestinian Youth Movement on the last two months of Zionist agression against Gaza.
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so honored and excited to announce that i’ve been named a recipient of the 2020-2023 Resident Fellowship in Little Spoonery 😌😌 this fellowship will give me the space, time, and resources i need to continue investigating being the little spoon
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phoenix pd is one of the most violent police forces in the country. defund, demilitarize, then abolish. here’s an easy way.
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wow! today i submitted all 295 of my manuscripts to the scribner open reading— the writing hustle continues 😎
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🍃three days of nsda middle school nationals looks, baby! 🍃
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are you sending other bitches articles on jstor yes or no.
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those facilitating genocide, whether materially, rhetorically, or silently, will face judgement in this life or the next. that is all i have
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nazi: i think we should murder all non white people
nyt reporter: ha ha, everyone is a little grumpy before they've had their coffee :) do u like jazz?
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i’m so excited to announce that my solo show, MY FATHER, MY MARTYR, AND ME will return to Phoenix stages in December, in preparation for a nationwide tour!start telling your friends or enemies ;) ticket link below 🤗
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nakba is the central organizing principle of the state of israel. it never ended, it is not a single catastrophe localized in time, it is an ontology. talk of a “second nakba” forgets that every day, every act of cruelty, is the nakba continuing a regime of collective slow death.
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try to imagine what this means. ya allah
Oct, 23rd: the most violent night since the start of the lsraeli aggression on Gaza Strip.
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solmaz
the things i need to say right now are not protected by free speech
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can i get a “fargo you will have a good first week of teaching next week” in the chat
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a few years ago, a friend received 93 fragments of ancient pottery from sites scattered across the SWANA region, deemed not valuable by a curator. she invited me to think with her about what they might make possible. we spent yesterday talking and experimenting ✨more to come!
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a truly astonishing piece of writing
Abdaljawad Omar writes about what it means as a Palestinian to be "inescapably marked from the moment we enter this world" as the target of Israeli snipers and modern warfare machinery. Also: What is the sniper's "kinship" with his target?
@HHamayel2
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yalla time to move beyond statements. everybody get in liberation is waiting for you with open arms
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haven’t stopped thinking about this. for me the answer is both— they’re one and the same. liberation necessitates the end of the World and every mundane structure that creates/sustains it. the future necessitates something wholly different; the future must be the end of the World
sometimes it feels like the steadfast refusal of the palestinian people to give up despite facing every horror modernity has to offer is either a bridge to the future or the end of the world
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every time i wear lipstick people are like "whoa... what's the story with that? what does it.. mean?" like i am going to tell them it's made of crushed palestinian berries or something. sorry... i just look pretty
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little change in my bio :)
i’m so excited to be able to share that i’ll be joining the theater department at Towson University as a visiting lecturer for the next year! grateful to be teaching and working with students on a project dear to me.
hooray!
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BEYOND EXCITED to share my first ever fiction publication, a story of colonial violence reverberating through parallel worlds. and it’s in one of my absolute favorite places!!thank you endlessly
@strangehorizons
for this space and
@rashaabdulhadi
for such generous editing✨
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this is my first day of school outfit to strike fear into the hearts of all who see me
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too many rom-coms have done irreparable damage to the world by convincing viewers that rich people are capable of love
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while you are busy frolicking i am studying the blade
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still thinking about this astonishing tweet
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when george w. dies, i will spend 24 straight hours live-streaming myself performing curses, spells, jigs, poems, songs, puppet shows, and lewd gestures to destroy his memory and erase his spirit from all planes of existence. i’m dead serious. hold me to this.
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so matt ruff, the author of LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (white dude), wrote a book called THE MIRAGE which has one of the stupidest premises i have ever encountered
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thanks to the folks who watched my performance last week!
today, i installed these 14 planters in the secret garden at asu, where they’ll remain for 40 days. if you are able, i invite and ask you to visit them during that time and help me to care for them.
thank you.
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richard siken v joyce carol oates posting cage match when
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israel’s latest cruelty and violence is a desperate response to the recent massive outpouring of support for Palestinians. they want to cut the ties between Palestine and those who believe in its freedom; they want to destroy the momentum of liberation. dont let them.
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little news: i’m glad to be sharing space with the good folks
@JewishCurrents
as an artist in residence for the next year. look out for, among other things, new performance work from myself and others ✨
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every citizen of israel quite literally lives in omelas
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about to sit in bed eating a bowl of strawberries and whipped cream like a dainty petulant little french prince
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writers on here love to be like “thinking of this palestinian poem today...😔😔” and then just go about their business
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this is what you evil fucking people defend when you defend israel and zionism. may the seas drown you and the land swallow your spirits.
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today am reminding myself i am an absolute cutie and i am very good at what i do
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sitting with this today.
Palestinians were not born to die in someone else's settler conquest fantasy. We were not born to be tallied, nameless, in death as "the price of war." We were not born to be a provocation and punished for existing.
It is still possible to love palestinians while we are alive.
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starting a magazine where we pay writers but don’t publish anything. it’s just a website you can click on and we pay you. also you don’t have to be a writer just someone who clicks the website. i am looking for angel investors for this idea
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i DO believe in:
-ghosts
-ghouls
-pod people
-folk legends of all kinds
i do NOT believe in:
-object permanence
-saving my money
-the ability of capitalist institutions to save us
-the badness of spiders
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a reminder: my full length, queer, anticolonial solo show is now available for bookings at YOUR college/theatre/festival/backyard! send me an email and let’s dance!
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everyone’s always joking about these tweets. me, i would simply speak to the dragon in the language of erreth akbe, whom even the dragons still respect. once i had convinced it of my worthiness, we would together turn to the west, and ride against the united states government
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college is crazy u can be in the library just beating the shit out of a russian sleeper agent with a copy of a le carré novel and some damn liberal arts major next to you, their eyes wide in fear will start screaming for help so you have to kill them too to protect yourself 🙄
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so glad we are finally talking about how bad classic books are. as a child walking home from school a group of classic novels cornered me and gave me wedgies, swirlies, did three stooges slapstick violence to me, and in fact hoisted me. by my own petard. they are dangerous
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tonight i am competing in my first poetry slam for money that i really need so like... send good vibes?
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joanna newsom content (divers haters do not engage)
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