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@camelmyrrh
kameela kamil
6 months
I wonder if Gigi Hadid thinks genes work like Bella is Palestinian and she is Dutch
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kameela kamil
10 months
Feminist Press is accepting submissions now thru 1/3! If you've struggled to find a home for your insurgent, hybrid, experimental work, please consider us. And note our updated editorial vision — a small gesture to show where + with whom our staff stands 🇵🇸
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1 year
All I ever am is disgusted by publishing but this is a new low
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extremely moved by this morning dispatch from gaza
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kameela kamil
1 year
Just making sure people know Netanyahu (and Likud) are this degree of medieval racist ⬇️
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8 months
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kameela kamil
1 year
Sikhs were targeted brutally following 9/11 because ignorant Americans mistook them to be Muslims. Balbir Singh Sodhi was shot on 9/15/2001 as part of a series of hate crimes in the US. Keep your Sikh brethren in mind as this all unfolds 💔
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1 year
THREAD: The Sikh Coalition is aware of—and deeply disturbed by—an apparent hate-motivated attack on a Sikh teen on a NYC bus yesterday. Per reporting, the assailant insulted and attempted to tear off the young man's turban and punched him repeatedly.
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kameela kamil
1 year
this has been the climate surrounding muslims in this country ever since i've been conscious in it, yet still i wouldn't say i "feel unsafe whenever I step outside the house"... makes u think 🤔
@ZohranKMamdani
Zohran Kwame Mamdani
1 year
This is a voicemail I received. It's a result of our President, Governor, Mayor, and my colleagues consistently dehumanizing Palestinians. If you believe Palestinians aren't worthy of life, don't be surprised when people apply your logic to anyone they associate with Palestine.
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1 month
This reso is clear, fair and firm; red lines on Palestine are drawn, as are steps for holding DSA electeds/members accountable to them. We *need* standards like this across the left to dislodge Zionism from the political norm, to protect Arab/Muslim/POC comrades, plain and simple
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DSA Emerge
2 months
Emerge is proud to support this resolution for an Anti-Zionist NYC-DSA at the upcoming chapter convention, and we encourage all NYC members in good standing to join as co-sponsors. 🇵🇸 Sign on to support:
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kameela kamil
4 years
It’s really not acceptable for an organization that claims to operate on principles of “leftism,” “feminism,” to equate an adequate sexual harassment policy with “corporatist neoliberalism.”
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kameela kamil
6 months
I am gorgeous actually
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@texan_maga
🇺🇲Salty Texan
6 months
Megyn Kelly nails it: “Why are they so unattractive? Why are the protesters so homely?”
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kameela kamil
6 months
Being a “writer” and being completely insulated from and disinterested in the movements rocking the world, rocking your immediate community, should not be compatible. And yet.
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kameela kamil
6 years
Books ruined my life, and I love them. (from @anne_boyer )
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kameela kamil
4 years
God really freaked it when he made the impact of deep rejection an irreparable wound and constant secret sting lol
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kameela kamil
6 months
Not to be lame but amid all the gross public discourse about famous female bodies I think this is beautiful
@PopCrave
Pop Crave
6 months
Megan Fox talks about ‘Love Is Blind’ star Chelsea Blackwell's comparison to her: “I didn't watch it, but I think in general, no one deserves to get bullied. I don't think she deserved that. I think people went way too hard. I did see a picture of her. A hundred thousand
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kameela kamil
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israeli racism has a vintage, near victorian barbarism to it, like they all seem like recreational phrenologists who'd line up to see a caged human like it's the museum of ice cream
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kameela kamil
2 years
Wrote a piece for Lux on workplace lit!
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natalie
2 years
Now online 💻 for @readlux , @camelmyrrh asks why contemporary workplace novels are so good at imagining the end of the world but just can’t seem to imagine the end of capitalism
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@camelmyrrh
kameela kamil
5 years
i just got into Brooklyn CUNY's MFA for fiction 😭😭
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kameela kamil
8 months
My friend from college has 4 families of relatives — including 11 children — currently trapped in Rafah after being displaced from North Gaza. They are directly in Israel’s line of fire as the IOF prepares to attack Rafah. Please help evacuate them:
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kameela kamil
5 years
Everlane’s fund for penalized/laid-off workers is where you can put the money you might have otherwise spent on mud-colored pants designed specifically to flatten your ass
@EverlaneU
Everlane Union
5 years
Thank you to everyone who asked how to support. We have started a GoFundMe. A lot of us are living paycheck to paycheck and any relief matters. If you can’t donate, please retweet or share with anyone you know that buys from Everlane.
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kameela kamil
1 year
“She doesn’t have to imagine a multicultural and integrated Palestine—she *remembers* it.” 💔
@AywaRhiannon
Rhiannon
1 year
I saw my Palestinian grandmother today—she’s older than the state of Israel. Expelled in 1948, made a refugee. She raised 8 children, born refugees in exile. She got sick with pneumonia last week and got out of the hospital today. All she wanted to talk about was the march in 1/
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kameela kamil
9 months
Thousands of women in Gaza are being forced to give birth via c-section sans anesthesia; to use dirty scraps of cloth and tent to manage their periods; to watch their children starve and be slaughtered; to endure genocide, to die... but go off about Barbie, Madam Death Secretary
@HillaryClinton
Hillary Clinton
9 months
Greta & Margot, While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you.  You’re both so much more than Kenough. #HillaryBarbie
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kameela kamil
3 years
God I hate when productive people with publication-studded careers try to steal sloth valor…
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@camelmyrrh
kameela kamil
7 months
Miriam plucked my poem out of notes app obscurity and gave it angel wings 🦋 💕 read all the beautiful writing up now on @angelfoodmag
@miri_yam_
miri
7 months
i am in love with all of this writing and you should read and reread all of it in the days and weeks to come but have this poem by the beautiful @camelmyrrh knocking around in my head every night for some reason or other
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@camelmyrrh
kameela kamil
4 years
Gonna teach my first class next semester!!
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2 years
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kameela kamil
1 year
The amoral literary aesthetes don’t realize they’re ciphers for imperialism in senescence, a.k.a. the Biden administration
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kameela kamil
8 months
I know my little community of writers and communists and beautiful booksellers and nannies is financially strapped, so trust that it means the world when I see your donations to help my friend’s family in Gaza ❤️ thank you for sharing + giving what you can
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kameela kamil
3 years
Lol the professor who observed me teach couldn’t resist a moment of derision in an otherwise glowing review
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kameela kamil
11 months
Because Eli Roth is apparently a zealous Zionist, I’m going to have to abstain from watching the movie I was most excited to see this year, @tgivingmovie . I love horror, Thanksgiving, and Addison Rae, but not more than I love Palestine. Join me and boycott, maybe?
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kameela kamil
2 years
I’m….. 30 😵
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kameela kamil
1 year
Hi from me and my outfit
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kameela kamil
1 year
I raised the wrong fist like a dumbass but solidarity anyway lol ✊🏽🇵🇸
@unionGustavo
Gustavo
1 year
Shout out to all the phonebankers making calls for Palestine today 🇵🇸🇵🇸🌹🌹 6 people joined DSA in order to make calls w us! (was members only for security reasons.) Shout out to Alana, Eleanor, Emma, Faiza, Jasmine, and Miranda — new DSA members ✊
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kameela kamil
2 years
@sarahroseetter @natalieayay As far as I know it’s valid for me or any critic to call out a vogue in literature that’s unsettling or disappointing for myriad reasons — that’s not a “drag,” that’s criticism. Definitely never resorted to calling any of the novels I mentioned “dumb” either.
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kameela kamil
3 years
To me this is normal, pragmatic, casually bold; i'm moved by his acceptance of his condition and earnest attempt to make it better; what's even the difference b/t this and like... Elle Wood's video essay?
@JUSTcatmeme
THE CATMAN (2022)
3 years
This is the most depressing shit I’ve ever seen
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kameela kamil
11 months
Killing the future, crippling a people's ability to construct society, is the mission at the heart of any genocide. Even when the tide turns towards survival, this tactic cuts some of the most lasting wounds because it robs a people of who they might have been
@BrandyLJensen
Brandy Jensen
11 months
bombing maternity wards, demolishing legislative buildings, leveling universities. clear intent is not just to cause maximum suffering in the present but to kill the future
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kameela kamil
1 year
Harrowing! TLDR: BetterHelp was founded an ex-IDF Israeli, and a Palestinian searching for therapy to deal with an onslaught of Zionist racism was matched through the app with a clinician who was a settler in occupied Palestine.
@jennineak
Jennine K
1 year
Feel like I can share my story about BetterHelp. During a particularly dark time and being affected by Israeli lobbyist attacks on me and my livelihood, feeling paralysed, lost, I signed up to trial online therapy. How BetterHelp works is that it (cont.)
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4 years
teen me / adult me
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@camelmyrrh
kameela kamil
25 days
vague sappy reduction of life that reeks of caucasity
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Sukhada
26 days
Wasn’t ready to cry over this 🥺
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kameela kamil
2 months
these books always sound so uncompelling and dumb :/
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kameela kamil
1 month
It is my right to sometimes treat twitter like it’s instagram
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kameela kamil
4 years
Two notes no selfie
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kameela kamil
8 months
I found this beautiful and familiar, healing to read. How do we confront our own breakage, how do we forgive another person for their part in it? The will to save a bond creeps in like light.
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kameela kamil
10 months
my secret feeling is that gen x is the dumbest generation
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@camelmyrrh
kameela kamil
6 days
As a Libra it’s called being a Libra
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@camelmyrrh
kameela kamil
6 months
hi everyone this was a joke <3 so sorry if you don't know what those are — i actually sympathize with you and your rabid humorlessness more than i do with apolitical billionaires. maybe you could learn from me <3
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kameela kamil
8 months
the point of disruptive actions isn't to immediately force change in u.s. policy. the point is to build movement power and to demonstrate that all systems have a touch of fragility. the genocidal powers-that-be *want* their strength to seem limitless — our cynicism is their goal.
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kameela kamil
1 year
QUEEN OF ICELAND AND MY HEART ❄️❤️‍🔥🇵🇸
@bjork
björk
1 year
is this what you call sharing ?
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kameela kamil
4 years
Participating in and profiting off the branding of an ideology doesn’t de facto qualify you as a practitioner of said ideology
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kameela kamil
3 years
everyone knows there are other wars currently going on in the world right
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kameela kamil
7 months
Hi from London :) cue the Fergie song
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@PublishersWkly
Publishers Weekly
7 months
Fairgoers feel positive that this year's fair is, if not the biggest, then easily one of the biggest, fairs since the pandemic, and definitely the most exciting—even if no one is quite ready yet to agree on that semi-mythical "book of the show."
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kameela kamil
1 year
I was cute as hell and had no idea… what growing up in the south will do to a girl 🤕
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@DestiniYvette
Dess 💘
1 year
Let me see yall at 19? 👀
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kameela kamil
4 years
Fucking stop... please... she’s done great work to expand suffrage but politically she remains suspect, as substantiated by her RECORD. Undercut efforts to protect free college + fine bank executives for predatory lending in GA. Hurt the same communities she’s “empowering” now.
@ziwe
ziwe
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icon trailblazer radical genius queen role model hero goliath
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kameela kamil
8 months
Aaron Bushnell just made it so clear that there *is* an individual dimension to the enablement of this genocide.
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kameela kamil
4 years
i love love the part of me that is allergic to work, that girl will sit and pace and stare for 7 hours before lifting a finger for a required task, a true radical <3
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kameela kamil
9 months
Such an important essay by @miri_yam_ in @newinquiry that studies the flat totality and ethical duplicity of the Holocaust trauma plot, clearing up how and why its "lessons" never apply to Palestinians (or even to actual Holocaust victims!)
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miri
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for @newinquiry i wrote about Holocaust fiction and the lies it tells us about history
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kameela kamil
3 years
so many books that promise to be UNFETTERED and GROTESQUE that end up feeling like novel-length front-facing videos
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kameela kamil
6 months
This is what Zadie Smith thinks underpins the campus encampments, a completely vapid frame to begin with
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kameela kamil
1 year
I’m sorry but when you refuse to do any research and pause your engagement at “human lives matter ✊” in response to everything that’s going on, you’re not coming off as *evolved*… you’re giving Kony 2012
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kameela kamil
3 years
Nice job ☺️
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kameela kamil
4 years
all the WORST people never fail to mention something about the Oxford fucking comma in their bios
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kameela kamil
1 year
when the deaths of Palestinians don't evoke in people the typical feelings associated with death (mourning, remorse, sorrow), instead of looking inward as to why that is, so many are just proceeding as if those deaths are not real, or less real, than the ones that make them cry
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kameela kamil
4 years
had a date with a kind, handsome, politically moderate man who had so many decent-faith questions about my “views” and now I’m exhausted
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kameela kamil
4 years
To all the NY mediaites making jokes about moving to Georgia: the sparse suburbs and stubbornly entrenched bigotry would negate your urbanity and stultify your verve, plus everyone would find you really annoying 😒
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kameela kamil
8 months
Coffee cart guy said “your face, it’s so beautiful, where is it from”
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kameela kamil
3 years
can people find a new phrase to parrot besides "vibes are off" please
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kameela kamil
4 years
Ladies if you play your cards right, you too can catch a man sanguine on the sidelines of revolt, amoebic in all his alignments save for his hardline passion for coffee
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kameela kamil
2 years
I want this as a poster!!!! Maybe I will make!!!
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kameela kamil
6 months
🇯🇵🌸
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kameela kamil
2 years
This is all I feel about the fact that someone on this website is mad at me
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kameela kamil
2 years
@sarahroseetter @natalieayay As far as I know it’s valid for me or any critic to call out a vogue in literature that’s unsettling or disappointing for myriad reasons — that’s not a “drag,” that’s criticism. Definitely never resorted to calling any of the novels I mentioned “dumb” either.
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kameela kamil
21 days
happy fall
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kameela kamil
3 years
tinned fish, whole milk, avoidant attachment styles... everybody wants to be a cat :)
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kameela kamil
1 year
I feel like… if you “went on birthright once” you can just own it, renounce it unequivocally + focus on amplifying support for Palestine — without using your complicity to redirect “empathy” towards settler Israelis
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kameela kamil
4 years
Dr. Angela Davis said "the impulse of vengeance is the impulse of the state"
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kameela kamil
3 years
any minor brush i have with academia reminds me why i felt too stupid for it even though i was in doctoral courses as a sophomore and got a masters by 23... if you're a brown woman, the intelligentsia consider your competence secretarial, your authority unthoughtful
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kameela kamil
3 years
what's the point of novels devoid of risk. people power and preen their careers with such safe, meek art.
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kameela kamil
3 years
“fathering” my plant a.k.a. killing it :/
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kameela kamil
5 years
In NYC, the land of dollars-per-word and smarties (smart + parties 😌), trafficking in ignorance and calumny about the South somehow seems to add to one's erudition -- people pile on so proudly!
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kameela kamil
5 years
Intermittent reminder that I’m not *allllll* the way properly socialized due to my highly secluded youth... plz forgive...
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kameela kamil
4 years
how am i supposed to start working out?? every time i try i go on one run or one swim and then sit down for 5months
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kameela kamil
1 year
Look
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kameela kamil
8 days
I hope my heart never forgets the Gazans burned alive in their tents tonight. I deserve to be haunted. We should all bear the residual wound; it is too sharp a horror not to scar this whole world and whatever worlds follow this one
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kameela kamil
4 months
maybe not the best response from the bookseller, but also give retail workers a break? when you have to make scores of customers feel sufficiently validated via ten-second interactions, it's truly never personal
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Grace Loh Prasad 駱信惠
4 months
I just went into a bookstore, bought a book, then asked “hey I’m a local author, would you be interested in carrying my book?” and the way she brushed me off SO QUICK, asked no questions, wouldn’t even make eye contact with me 😭😭
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kameela kamil
1 year
Celebs 100% think Gaza is a city in Israel. they actually can't process the fact that it's not. no matter how many times you tell them "Gaza is a palestinian territory" they will wake up tomorrow and post about how Israel has no electricity
@PopBase
Pop Base
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Justin Bieber deletes and reposts ‘Praying For Israel’ story after the original post he shared had the words over a photo of destruction in Gaza.
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kameela kamil
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~$15k would get a family out of Rafah this week, $30k and one whole side of a family might be saved. Wild to have the price of life set right before our eyes like this.
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kameela kamil
4 years
Me, a real live girl from Georgia, stuck on Stacey Abrams Twitter whipped into frenzy by faddish New Yorkers desperate for an uncancellable hero to worship... who do I have to vote for to get out of this hell!
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kameela kamil
5 years
Absolutely SICK of my twenties
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kameela kamil
6 years
big thanks to the person at work popping off about her Notre Dame grief and how she “bets it was terrorists,” no better cure for my mawkish sorrow than a reminder of the easy Islamophobia lurking behind these... guaranteed degradations
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kameela kamil
2 years
I am bad at fighting on this app but I would just like to say if you think I’m asking for literature to “fix capitalism” you misread my essay… thought I didn’t actually have to clarify this but if you need help…✌🏽
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kameela kamil
4 years
Can someone teach men that you can’t “run your fingers through 😍” curly hair
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kameela kamil
10 months
Bring back Twitter circle!! I have something to say about cuddling
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kameela kamil
2 years
Inadvertently wore sweatpants to the Paris review launch party, felt powerful
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kameela kamil
6 years
ONE day when I am a CELEB (you heard it here first) I am going to name my firstborn daughter Syllable. SYLLABLE.
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kameela kamil
3 months
Amazing analysis from this guy 😍
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@voguemagazine
Vogue Magazine
3 months
Jack Schlossberg is Vogue's political correspondent. The new role will see him combine his background in law and business with the self-described “silly goose” tendencies he displays online. Here, see how John F. Kennedy’s only grandson, is taking over:
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kameela kamil
3 years
Raised to survive war and ruin your life
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kameela kamil
4 years
On ABC News they are begging the president to tweet
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