Published inAnd Another Thing…·2 days agoDear Palestine, I Will Never ForgetI Won’t Forget What I am Missing out On Because of A Genocidal Occupation — Dear Palestine, I won’t forget. I won’t forget the resentment I feel, because I will never walk through the Northern part of Gaza, and feel the wind on my face as I wander through the open-air markets. I will not hear the voice of the Nona’s tell me stories of…Palestine4 min readPalestine4 min read
Published inAnd Another Thing…·Nov 29From Palestine to Canada the Voices Are ClearEnd The Occupations of This Generation — Palestine has been at war, since before my mother was alive. Palestine has been at war for 25 years short of a century. It’s been 75 years since the people of Palestine started to pack up everything they owned before traveling to the north, where it would be safe from…Palestine6 min readPalestine6 min read
Published inAnd Another Thing…·Nov 12Understanding The Conversation We’re Having Vs The Conversation You Wish We Were HavingBe Less Irrelevant — I’m tired of saying “This is happening to Black people at the hands of x,y,z” and being told in response “What about those that are helping?” What I clearly mean is that the Black community is not getting the help it needs. Dwayne Wong (Omowale), wrote a beautiful essay called…Palestine4 min readPalestine4 min read
Published inAnd Another Thing…·Nov 11Keke Palmer vs. The WorldI Didn’t Say Anything About Nikki Minage, I Didn’t Say Anything About Rihanna, I Am Tired of Not Saying Anything — For years I didn’t speak out when women who I considered famous, women that the world considered famous, came out to talk about sexual or physical abuse. …Keke Palmer5 min readKeke Palmer5 min read
Published inAnd Another Thing…·Nov 10An Open Letter To The WorldI’m Tired, And I’m Running Out of Words, But I Have One Last Request WAKE THE FUCK UP To me, this is the face of fear. This is the face I have come to be afraid of, white skin, any color eyes, and white hair. I’m afraid of you. When I was growing up…Palestine5 min readPalestine5 min read
Published inAnd Another Thing…·Nov 7What Radicalized You?For Me, it Was Rwanda in 1994. — The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. I remember that day clearly. Not Rwanda, but the day this photo was taken. Mom was very excited to see and meet Jagmeet Singh, I had no idea who he was. I remember looking up and for the first time since I was about six years old I remember seeing…Palestine5 min readPalestine5 min read
Published inAnd Another Thing…·Nov 6A Different UnderstandingDid You See What You Thought You Saw? — Trigger Warning: This post is going to contain details of violent acts of war. It will not be easy to read. Please proceed with caution. Forty dead babies. Decapitated at the border of Israel. That was shocking enough, but then. Wait. It wasn’t true after all. A lie. Designed to give the world permission to go to war with the most vulnerable population on the planet.Palestine4 min readPalestine4 min read
Published inAnd Another Thing…·Nov 4It’s Traditional, BitchBut That Doesn’t Make it Right — I feel like I shouldn’t need a full essay to tell you that just because your family has been doing something for hundreds of years, that doesn’t mean that it’s the right thing to do. I feel like both slavery, and the holocaust, taught us that just because people get…Palestine8 min readPalestine8 min read
Published inAnd Another Thing…·Oct 30In Case of My Death…Burn The World Down — This is not just another pithy book title, it’s a collection of essays that tell the world precisely why I am mad about all the things in this world I was conditioned to believe in. The police rape and kill more people than anyone else on this planet. From England…Books3 min readBooks3 min read
Published inAnd Another Thing…·Oct 20“Why Didn’t She Leave?”An Excerpt From Devon J Hall’s Upcoming Book — Girls. When I really look at all the creatures on this planet, I think that girls and women are the two creatures, that should be more feared, than anyone and anything else. Around the globe girls go ignored, until and when they’ve had enough and lost their minds, people are…Women10 min readWomen10 min read
