The new #poetry collection The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social is here! Kurd writes from the imagined voice of Zulaykha, “the wife of Aziz”/“wife of Potiphar" as she reflects on what consolations human desire and divine longing might offer our shared present tense. 💙📚 talonbooks.com/books/the-bo...

Yeah, I refuse to stop sharing them and I refuse to be overwhelmed alone. I live in a state that ships arms to the terrorists who enforced this state of siege and famine onto Palestinian families. I will not let them forget that what they are doing is illegal, immoral, and does not represent me. 🍉✊

Please keep sharing and keep demanding systemic change for Palestinian freedom from your elected officials.

Help us celebrate the release of 📚 The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social 📚 th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett 📚 No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social 📚 Stigmata by @scottjackshaw.bsky.social and 📚 tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social! See you there! 💙📚

Vancouver folks, you're invited 🙂 💜

Everyone in the world who has not lost their humanity is now talking with pleasure and excitement about this image, which makes it - as stain, in shadow - even more hopeful and excellent

What about seizing all Lockheed Martin assets to fund affordable housing in perpetuity for everyone right now? No fighter jets for you!

I've only ever had this bitter bile collect in my throat before waking on days when I've had to get ready to leave #Kashmir

Really looking forward to this one! I'll be reading from THE BOOK OF Z 💜

Here's a pink heart inscribed with the word "Dosti" = "Friendship" in Urdu script. Be a friend for Gaza, where Zena needs milk and food. Keep sharing and keep protesting. #CeasefireNOW #DisarmIsFake #StopArmingIsFake #FeedGazaNOW

The Book of Z is a persona poem, written in the imagined voice of a contemporary Zulaykha.

As one of the co-contributors to the anthology RIVER IN AN OCEAN: ESSAYS ON TRANSLATION (trace press, 2023) I've had the pleasure of reading Okka's work & meeting her online. Her amazing essay in RIVER similarly constitutes an expression of #care for the translator, as here, for the #reader 💜

Not saying guerilla tactics *require* black tie. But ahhh, how nice it is to see them align. So very nice. 🍉 ✊

This is Dina and her children in Gaza. Please keep sharing, donate if you can, and tell your elected officials their inaction is complicity & complicity is unacceptable gofund.me/972ab97fd

I suggest my local hot dog stand in front of English Bay Beach in Vancouver, as the location for this. The vibe at sunset is unbeatable. And I think the guy who runs it makes his own garlic sauce.

Ottawa is apparently run by people who hate kids and/or who prefer to fund police on the backs of kids? A climate justice strategy would pay people to take transit as much as possible, and responsible officials worthy of their damn pay checks would have started to do this in 2010.

From a translator and painter I admire, a truly appalling prospect at the U of Chicago, a major centre of scholarship on South Asian languages. It's as if universities…hate…literacy

Things weren't shitty enough in #Kashmir, so sure, this latest book ban makes perfect sense jacobin.com/2025/08/cens...

I went to see filmmaker Rehab Nazzal’s photography/multimedia art exhibit called DRIVING IN PALESTINE at the Vines, a local Vancouver gallery. Please keep sharing, giving, protesting. #FeedGazaNow

Mark Carney & the Liberals have basically told us they're neo-cons. #AngryDadPoli #CdnPoli

My love of Islamic art! What to say about this 16th C Safavid era Herati painting, "Farhad carves a milk channel for Shirin", except: lucky, lucky, Shirin. Her springtime yellow dress; that prancing, lovely horse. Every kid should have the chance to learn how to ride horseback. #FeedGazaNOW

So, I am an avid follower of/ learner about Islamic art. I have been able to maintain and develop this interest because my parents were able to house, feed, clothe, and educate me. No aerial bombardment, starvation siege, or other state terror. You know the feeling? Pay it forward. #FeedGazaNow

So Bluesky has decided to remove @jamalzuhir.bsky.social who has been on here for well over a year, doesn’t spam and has only ever had one account so he was never removed before.

Yasmeen sent me a video today and her son was in the background and the first thing I noticed is how thin he was- four kids is so many mouths to feed in Gaza

@moderation.bsky.app what is your sociopathic need to delete Palestinian accounts saying here? you have a genocide problem — admit it and get some help, or get a job where you are not cutting people’s lifelines

Please re-post and donate what you can for Qusai. Tell your elected officials they do not deserve to sleep peacefully in their beds or take a paycheque off taxpayers while Qusai is unsafe and hungry. Free Palestine. Feed Gaza Now.

What I have recently witnessed is the isolation & anxiety that compels a POC woman academic to turn to the use of ChatGPT for a sense of validation for serious work which was not adequately supported by the humans. ChatGPT is a scourge. A parasite. It is NOT your friend.

Here’s a cheerful text message from my editor yesterday afternoon + front cover of THE BOOK OF Z, my forthcoming work of poetry with Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social

Baraa from Gaza went to the death aid and did not get anything. Then they were compelled to write this extraordinary sentence. Please keep sharing; send to your elected officials, demand full sanctions on the death-dealing colony. MEDICAL AND FOOD RELIEF NOW. FEED GAZA NOW.

Please keep sharing. Protest and shame your elected officials’ inaction by sending them these stories. End the genocide

Reading James Baldwin is medicine, as much now as it has ever been

Probably only I and the other Gen Xers can remember the classic 90s-era creative writing advice, “Kill Your Darlings”. Well, kids, don’t feed your darlings to ChatGPT.

Pierogi makers united against fascism

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“This isn’t just pallor; it’s the effect of famine on a human being”. Free Palestine. Please keep sharing & donate what you can when you can.

Thirty million they can't deliver (and demonstrates how cheaply they value Palestinian lives) and ten million for a state they won't recognize and fuck all consequences for the monsters murdering children.

Please share, donate, and remind your elected officials that starvation is a war crime and a crime against humanity. Free Palestine.

Honestly if you don’t do these things — if you don’t acknowledge that you contributed to harm, and reflect on what about you, your priors, your inflexibility prevented you from seeing something that was plenty visible to plenty of people — I fundamentally don’t think you’re a trustworthy person.

An accounting of the misinformation you bought into & why & how. Apologies to the people you argued with or disdained. Repair, via money & action, for your part in the tragedy.

I think if you’re new to speaking out for the people of Gaza & Palestine, your first job is to speak out for them loudly & clearly — and your next job is to clean up your share of mess from your years of silence or defensiveness.

Nothing is going to change until the murder regimes are removed from power

BEFORE SOME WESTERN LEADERS SPEAK ABOUT THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN GAZA, THEY MUST FIRST STOP SUPPLYING ISRAEL WITH WEAPONS THAT ARE USED DAILY TO KILL CHILDREN AND CIVILIANS IN GAZA.

Immorality, negligence, incompetence — all summed up for me by every news reporter who still blandly quotes genocidal officials as if they have not proven that they are liars over and over again.

I am remembering how children with their parents would come to the Handala boat while it was at port in Italy, and offer their entire glass jar of money saved up or their treasured stuffed animal, for a Palestinian child in Gaza. Every child in this world deserves life and joy.

“My children are crying bitterly from hunger”. Have you ever had to see your children cry bitterly from hunger and to ask strangers to feed them? Please share and give what you can.

They haven’t had a proper meal in days. Please keep sharing, give what you can, demand our governments place full sanctions on genocidaires and take action to end the siege permanently. Free Palestine.