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wrote about the former somali national basketball team’s annual reunion in small town america. the only thing they still love more than the game is each other 🤍
"We come to Ashland year after year. This is our time capsule."
In 1991, the Somalia national basketball team found themselves in exile due to the country's civil war. Decades later, they reunite annually in the small US town of Ashland, Oregon
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i had students who missed class bc they worked night shift, or had to babysit, or didn’t have transport, or were homeless & scrambling to find a place to live, or translating for parents at important appts. this moral grandstanding about in-person learning is absolute hypocrisy
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bell hooks saying “To be true to patriarchy we are all taught that we must keep men’s secrets.” & Muriel Rukeyser asking “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.”
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calling motaz, a 24 year old living through the genocide of his people, a ~nonblack cis man~ is crazy behavior. the world is not your intro to sociology classroom. grow up
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tortured poets discourse during a genocide where so many writers and poets have been martyred is actually sickening
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your sister is loading the dishwasher while you tweet about communism from your bedroom. mutual aid begins at home, losers
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you can buy as many stamps as you want but you’re not saving the post office “lol.” americans are absolutely intoxicated by the illusion of individual power
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not to be corny on main but i miss you sounds so trivial compared to what i actually mean which is always: the time i used to spend with you is now spent thinking about you. there’s a hole in all of my days that’s in the shape of you
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the jewish federation of portland is withholding funding from the oregon food bank until OFB retracts a statement calling for a ceasefire. they are weaponizing antisemitism to starve people. this is political blackmail at the expense of our state’s most vulnerable communities.
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y’all don’t care about whether students are in school or not bc there’s always been large groups of kids, most poor, most black and brown, who regularly miss school but i guess they’re the inevitable collateral for the failings of a disastrous and inequitable public school system
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this generation of writers is truly bitch made. to have the gift of language and to then lift your pen to betray the palestinian cause is unforgivable. long live the cultural workers who aren't afraid that expressing solidarity will get in the way of a book deal or a byline
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v ugly behavior to make a 20 something yr old palestinian living thru a genocide the face of global anti blackness. yall want an apology? ur tax dollars are funding the extermination of a people & still u think there’s a world where u are the ones being victimized by palestinians
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i don’t wanna hear shit about cancel
culture ever again until we collectively come to terms with the fact that the only true victims of cancel culture are those who question and agitate against the empire
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this poem is actually by palestinian poet samih al-qasim! for decades after the hand copied poem was found in jackson’s cell everyone thought it was his work. this ‘mistake’ reveals the deep kinship and parallels of the black/palestinian experience and revolutionary struggle
Enemy of the Sun by George Jackson
The Black Panther, Vol. VII, No. 5, September 25, 1971
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interesting to see antiblackness deployed in a similar way to antisemitism. transformed into a rhetorical tool meant to shut down critique, dissent, rigor. accusations of both are impossible to defend against because the definitions are moving targets
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being entrusted w/ someone’s heart & feelings is an amaana, a sacred trust. i hope to never take the responsibility of that kind of intimacy lightly. i ask allah for the grace & mercy necessary to forgive all who were careless w/ me, who buckled beneath the faith i had in them
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bell hooks wasn’t writing & theorizing about the kind of empty love sold to us by this cold & repressed culture. she taught us love has teeth, love is a gun, a refuge, a rebellion, love is simultaneously the brass, the key, the door & what waits for us on the other side of it
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Genuinely blindsided by how people will believe anything, no matter how absurd, as long as it is a justification to hate Israel.
The storyline today is that Israel randomly destroyed a hospital because they’re evil and love killing civilians. People are showing dead bodies on
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not a somali conference inviting a boeing exec as a guest speaker….. why don’t we have any principles as a people??? culture isn’t a basis for unity or progress when half of you are sell outs
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did 2020 not happen? did the last 300 days not happen? did i dream all this terror?? are we living in the same world, on the same timeline?
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accountability is relational so, no, strangers don’t owe strangers on the internet and on the other side of the world “accountability.” y’all keep saying accountability when the word you’re looking for is probably punishment
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spent the morning with the founder of portland’s black panther party who said things will get worse before they get better. “what should we be doing to prepare for whatever comes next?” i asked him. he didn’t hesitate: “you and your friends need to study and remain steadfast.”
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the state doesn’t care about the mental health or learning loss of kids. what they claim is in the best interest of children always aligns with what’s in the best interest of the ruling class. as solmaz said: “every nation hates its children. this is a requirement of statehood.”
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this is unfolding as israeli officials and settlers collude to starve gaza. from portland to palestine, hunger and famine are not natural disasters, but man-made catastrophes. political and moral failures of the highest degree
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wrote my first reported piece for
@atlasobscura
on how truck driving is like a traditional somali nomadic lifestyle & how we’re always finding home in the most unlikely
places:
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can’t believe i’ve been sleeping on jenny slate’s strange and surprising work: “my vulnerability is natural and permissible and beautiful to me, and it should remind you of your responsibility to behave like a friend to me and the world.”
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when i tell a joke in english and people laugh it’s whatever but when i manage to tell a joke in somali and make people laugh?????? i feel like i’m on drugs, i feel like the most powerful woman in the universe
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really hate the fact that women are expected to showcase their pain and trauma at the altar of male indifference year after year
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i miss the proximity of my friends’ bodies— sharing a sliver of a couch cushion, a crowded booth at a bar or restaurant, a single bus seat, a bed, a small spot on the floor. how we always made room for each other in places where there was no room
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in a pandemic individual choices have public health consequences. even tho the govt’s response has been to condemn us all to death, i have so much love & respect for everyone doing the hard thing, weighing small and impossible choices, doing what they can to keep each other safe
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wrote about sisterhood and grief for the times. i love my sisters, birth and blood, chosen and found ❤️
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i miss my friends so much but don’t have energy to call anyone anymore so i just think of them all the time & hold them in my heart & keep them in my prayers & occasionally i will see them in a dream. i hope they think of me too! sometimes it’s enough to be on someone’s mind.
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my chapbook, a girl is a sovereign state, is part of the new generation african poets box set. what an honor to share this moment with eleven other phenomenal african writers. you can order at this link: . love & gratitude to everyone who already has!
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you know that feeling when an old friend crosses your mind? not sadness necessarily but an adjacent feeling. saw something today that reminded me of someone i no longer speak to & i thought to myself: once upon a time i would have shared this & so much more with you
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i’m not meant to work, i’m meant to buy 3 iced coffees a day, only drink half of each one, tweak, ignore texts, pine for an old crush, carry my favorite book around like a fashion accessory but never open it, get hit with a random burst of energy and inspiration at midnight
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rest in power to the late great george jackson and may ten thousand rise in rebellion, amen amen amen.
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so many somali to english translations of poetry are mid bc they’re not done by poets. they don’t translate sound, rhythm, momentum, grammar, history. translation is a portal. determining what crosses into english (& what cannot cross into english) is the task of the translator
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lives have BEEN lost in portland. PPD murdeded keaton otis, kendra james, aaron campbell, jason washington, quanice hayes, and countless others. feds are treating protestors w the same impunity local police have always treated black people in this city with. what’s not clicking?
Please pay attention. Lives are going to be lost in Portland.
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i don’t trust anyone who calls for “humanitarian” intervention or sanctions in the horn of Africa. if you’re asking the hand around our throat for mercy we don’t just have a political disagreement— you’re an enemy of me and my people. hadal ba intaas ayuu ku dhanyahay
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if you didn’t know me before my sister died you barely know me. if you only knew me when my sister was alive you barely know me. grief makes you a stranger to everybody, but especially to yourself.
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wrote about how 9/11 and the war on terror became the justification for the militarization of the continent through AFRICOM. as the US military footprint grows so does terrorism despite their presence being branded as a counterterrorism effort. meanwhile war profiteers make bank
African People Bear the Weight of US’s Deadly “War on Terror” on the Continent
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@joann_fabrics_
@spuffytv
@Sadie_Syclone
palestinians waving white flags are being executed in broad daylight & yet ur the victim of a digital lynching????? be soooooo fr. people are dying kim
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to all the somali women speaking their truth today & to all who still can’t... i love you and believe you and promise to always raise hell and raize cities for you
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my father grew up in this house. the lost son returns home after 40 years. i imagine my father looked out this window that you can no longer see in, out, through or beyond. here he is known by all of his names & made whole again by that knowledge. like this i am made whole, too
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keep young people at the center of all your organizing!!! watching my younger siblings and cousins turn into prison abolitionists in REAL TIME is breaking my heart wide open. what was absurd a week ago is no longer absurd. that we lived so long this way is the true absurdity
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hasbi allah wa nicmal wakiil. i can’t stop thinking about the people massacred during fajr prayer. we are all culpable. it goes beyond complicity. it isn’t a gotcha to list all the ways we are all entangled in the war machine— it is the engine that underpins the entire US economy
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one of the most clarifying aspects of moving away is learning which friendships are held together by proximity and convenience & which ones flourish beyond geographic and temporal limitations
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“frontlines of the fight” whole time it’s a voting booth
I think I feel a kind of sadness at the way people are treating black people who are supporting VP Harris, who have stood in solidarity with Palestinians, only to be told we are the worst people in the world when we are on the frontlines in the fight against the worst of America.
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there was an exhibit at al quds university in 2015 called “George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine” to honor this history of solidarity and to uplift the voices and struggles of political prisoners around the world
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so tired after a long day of being both beautiful and funny. heavy is the head that wears the crown :/
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thank god for islam. im so tired. we will do what we can for each other while we’re here & in the end there will be divine retribution
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so much of our rage re: patriarchal violence manifests in ways that strengthen and reinforce carceral logic. i want the men who have hurt me to choose accountability & to never harm anyone else. & i know accountability is an ongoing process that must happen in & with community
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i told my mom a psychic said i was going to meet my soulmate soon and before giving me a religious lecture she asked if the woman had specified whether or not my soulmate would be somali
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feeling really sad abt how much of my 20s has been surrendered to depression. there is so much i don’t remember from so many years of auto pilot, so many days and weeks and months collapsed in on themselves, huge chunks of time lost to me
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can’t believe it’s been ten years since my sister’s death. the most difficult and important lesson i’ve ever learned is that you’ll be separated from everyone you love, through grief or geography, death or distance. may allah forgive our beloveds and reunite us with them 🤍
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he told me that when aaron dixon told bobby seale he was starting a black panther party chapter in seattle, seale sent him 14 books. “are you reading? keep reading.”
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i’m supporting my sister through remote learning and 4th grade is kicking both our asses. we just take turns crying. send helppppppp
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on the phone this morning the first thing my mom said was “are you sad? you sound sad,” with such certainty. it’s such a gift to be seen and to be known.
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“I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.”
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some professors are being beat up by cops bc they’re protecting students who are organizing against a genocide that has leveled palestines education system & martyred countless professors & students. & other professors are teaching 3 hr seminars about line breaks & lyric essays
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now that basketball is over can i suggest that all your love and attention now go to me
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when you go to a new mesjid and the women’s prayer section is a storage closet.... mashallah love to see it 😍
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i miss making mew friends so much!! the electric shock of vibing with strangers, exchanging numbers, making plans to hang out again, the coy and hopeful thrill of courting each other! it is a lot like falling in love
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recently realized i isolate myself when i’m really struggling because yes, i don’t want to be seen differently, but also because i don’t want to risk someone i love deeply not responding well to my pain and the disappointment of having to see THEM differently.
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the timing of israel’s bombings of gaza, an open air prison, on the eve of Ramadan, is calculated and deliberate. long live the palestinian resistance. free the people, free the land.
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white people who are constantly talking about racism but never use the words colonialism or imperialism need to go take a nap or something
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palestine taught me what it meant not only to live but to choose life.. that there is no honor in begging & the only way to maintain dignity is through struggle. eternal love and respect to the martyrs & the mothers & all stewards of the land & the resistance
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so excited to be on the shortlist for the brunel international african poetry prize! such phenomenal company.
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weaponizing black history to shuck and jive for the democratic party LOL sorry still not voting for these losers
@KamalaHarris
just called for a cease fire in Gaza while standing in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate Bloody Sunday in the birthplace of multiracial democracy in America: Selma.
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none of my political elders ever told me to “google” when i had earnest questions. people don’t know what they don’t know. until people have the tools to continue their political education on their own, it IS our duty to educate each other
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to be in Toronto on the day after my cousin’s murder, the day before his janaza, as fireworks go off for Canada Day, as my people celebrate Somalia’s Independence, I’m dizzy thinking of all the places we looked for, are still looking for, a sense of home.
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excited to share a new essay called street view in the most recent issue of
@thebhreview
. ty if you choose to read it <3
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y’all are so sad. your children are not your property. i’m lucky to have been raised by so many elders who acted as stewards & guardians of my well being. the two parent household is a lonely glass castle. when child rearing is communal it’s easier to intervene in cases of abuse
Does anyone else get annoyed when anyone but you or the dad call your baby “my baby”? Idk why it bothers me so much
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what i want in a relationship has changed as much as i have. things i thought were essential no longer are. seeing dads carry their children on their shoulders as they make tawaf in makkah has opened a portal in my heart. i see love more expansively, more clearly than before
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@_canubian
@marcushjohnson
this is the stupidest take I’ve ever read. pls continue waxing poetic about how a displaced refugee from an imperialized nation which has been ravaged by US aggression holds the views she does bc she was part of the upper middle class of her country
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it is hard not to feel distanced from friends whose priorities & preoccupations are so different from my own. we don’t live in the same world anymore. it’s unclear if we ever did. i’m so grateful for my comrades who i honor & who honor me with all their love & all their rage.
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we’re raising funds for a local muslim sister who is in need of emergency surgery. we’re halfway to our goal. can you donate and/or boost this call? we take care of us ❤️
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my idea of self care is putting on lipstick before a zoom class and only looking at myself the whole time
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rip the black revolutionaries who were literally on the frontline of the fight & who stood shoulder to shoulder with their siblings in the global south against their shared enemies not just in word but in deed too.
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what’s the word for when u don’t want to die but u def want to hit the pause button on life and take a quick little break????? asking for a friend at the edge of a mental breakdown
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“…now there is not even anyone to dream about... I don’t have the strength to put together the features of a fantasy face. I am heartbroken over no one, over having nobody to wish for, nobody to hope for. I am heartbroken, usually over someone. Now I am heartbroken over no one.”
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long live kent ford. it's devastating to think of where the movement would be if so many of its leaders weren't jailed or murdered or disappeared by the state, how much we need their guidance and wisdom and vision. don't believe for a second that cointelpro ever ended
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the divine timing of this FB memory and my chapbook release... phewww. i’m finally learning to pay attention to all the ways my sister is still here. my kindest reader. the first love of my life. how i miss you. how i wish you were here with me ❤️
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every once in a while a former student will unfollow me online & i laugh bc i think finally seeing the full extent of my politics might be overwhelming for all the suburban white kids i taught. joke is on you baby, i was a good teacher bc i was a communist not in spite of it xo
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my baby sister is texting me from my moms phone and is this not the cutest thing ever
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