i realized i forgot how to read persian so i’m learning arabic now

it’s happening

Tolstoy

people keep telling me that protesters are “bullying” others… idk but if you need to be “bullied” into caring about a genocide then i think the problem is not with the movement but within yourself 🩵

'When students begin to defy established authority it often appears to besieged administrators that 'someone must be behind this,' the implication being that young people are incapable of thinking or acting on their own.' - Howard Zinn, reflecting on Spelman students rebelling

i do think about this picture all the time

you know i’m crying about this, right

the cops tried to remove the new nyu encampment by taking away their tents last night but all that did was make the kids huddle closer together, and the community to bring them more blankets and hot food… many of them were arrested on monday, and they’re still here. i love them

that’s my former student speaking the truth here ikr

sally and i accidentally crashing a 23-year old’s birthday party in greenwich village

listening to arabic pop music while person on f train is screaming about government surveillance and little gen z kid is taking pics of her teacup chihuahua on a digital point and shoot from 2005 … i *am* in new york

Henri Michaux

fangirling over one of my favorite writers Namwali

Messages of support and strength from Rafah to the student movement ❤️ this is who we fight for

i’m so happy about and grateful for the student protesters, but sometimes the grief for the dead just hits me, the grief over who has been lost, and who has not been buried, all those children without parents, children without siblings, parents without children

i will never forget the mass graves

Might sound weird, but I think thousands of kids at elite universities from immense privilege risking their (earned or unearned) status for the lives of people they will never meet is breathtakingly beautiful

Congrats to Isabella Hammad whose utterly brilliant novel #EnterGhost just won the Aspen Words Literary Prize. 🏆 🎉🎊🎈💪🇵🇸

Grove Atlantic Fern Press Jonathan Cape Vintage Books

some things i literally do not care about right now are a) mfa discourse and b) literary starlet discourse. do you even see what is going on around you