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@randajarrar
Author of 3 books. LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY, out now. Performer: Ramy & more Winner: American Book Award, Creative Capital Award 🇵🇸
bookshop.org/p/books/love-i…Born January 4Joined June 2008

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Though this ongoing catastrophe feels relentless, it's important to note that it is not inevitable. It has a culprit: Zionism, and to talk about the Nakba, one must talk about Zionism. Read the full essay here:
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🧵: Today is the 75th commemoration of the Nakba—a term used to denote the catastrophic creation of the Israeli state, when Zionist militias ethnically cleansed Palestine & rendered us refugees outside of the borders of our homeland. It should be a household name, but it's not.
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The biggest congratulations to on the Pulitzer. So deserving! This is a big moment for Black queer writing. And it’s a really big deal for me as a person who would duck off into corners of the library to read Carl Phillips poems like they were secrets. ♥️
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If y’all knew how many copies it took to make a book “move and shake” you’d know that a few hundred folks could change everything for a book’s momentum. If you love books, have friends who do too, and have 30 bucks (or a library card)—you have the personal power to create demand.
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APB to lit-minded friends! I bought, loved & was usefully troubled by this book back in 2020. Now it’s out in paperback & you should read it
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bookshop.org/p/books/love-i please support my newest book release. thank you ♥️ this book came out before vaccines and during pandemic and i wasn't able to tour with it or promo it. i spent ten years writing it and i would love for it to reach a wider audience.
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I love this book and how it uses the body as genesis-- beauty standards, broken mothers, dysmorphia, sex positivity and negativity, immigrant mothers, Dads, new mothers, women writers, arabs being in the world, arabs at airports
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bookshop.org/p/books/love-i please support my newest book release. thank you ♥️ this book came out before vaccines and during pandemic and i wasn't able to tour with it or promo it. i spent ten years writing it and i would love for it to reach a wider audience.
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and that fat ppl still experience oppression when we do. Fat liberation has never been abt our individual self-esteem or self-image; it has always been abt liberating us from interconnected oppressions & ensuring fat ppl can stay alive when MDs are insistent on killing us.
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Thin ppl's self-hatred obscures all the ways they are affirmed, validated and privileged in their bodies even if they have ambivalent or negative feelings abt it. Thinking structurally can clarify that they still receive privilege even when they don't "feel" attractive...
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Just look at the intense backlash fat activists receive across platforms. This often comes from thin ppl wishing us to hate our bodies they ways they hate theirs. They resent us for being worse off in their eyes but with, in many ways, more fulfilling lives.
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This translates to the perception of fat ppl as 'brave' for simply stepping out of our house confidently--or even indifferently. We experience oppression no matter how we feel abt our bodies & in fact can even become more visible targets when we *don't* hate our bodies.
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Under capitalism we are all trained to hate our bodies--we are sold flaws in order to be sold solutions. I think this can impact thin ppl more intensely when they are so close to beauty standards they may think one or two products can land them there.
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One of the ways that 'body positivity' has defanged Fat Liberation is in reducing systemic oppression to how we feel abt our bodies. Thin ppl who hate their bodies, then, are able ignore or minimize the privilege they still receive from thinness bc they are unhappy w themselves.
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Interesting how the Egyptian lawyer wants to sue now for “black washing” but where was she when every other documentary in history depicted cleopatra with white European skin?
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Thank you for allowing me to share my story on #QueenCleopatra for #Netflix. While it is blowing up the internet... All I ask is that we slow down and ask "What exactly bothers you so much about a black Cleopatra?" Full length version coming soon.
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my people can be so pathetic, self-hating, colonized, and ultimately, stupid
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An Egyptian lawyer has sued Netflix for “blackwashing history” over new Cleopatra documentary.
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my blue checkmark which i got in 2015 is gone. i refuse to give this site any of my money. happy weekend all!
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This video shows Israeli forces assaulting Palestinian activist Alaa AlSous while filming the brutal attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque last year in Ramadan 2022. Today, 12 Ramadan 2023, Israeli forces stormed the home of AlSous and arrested her.
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.@lithub features the paperback edition of Randa Jarrar’s LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY, on sale April 18! lithub.com/20-new-paperba
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Just going to add my voice to the chorus of people saying it is absolutely disgraceful for the New York Times to publish a piece that asks "hey why did the Iraq War happen anyway?" when that specific paper manufactured consent to make that war happen.
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Imagine being given a chance to reflect on the Iraq war and literally just erasing the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis the US killed from any mention on this anniversary. The collective amnesia of US officials, past and present to erase Iraqi victims is utterly shameful
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