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@InsideOutTO

May 5

The full lineup for #InsideOut2023 is live! 100+ new queer films, at TIFF Bell Lightbox cinemas or streaming at home Ontario-wide, May 25 - June 4. Grab an In-Person or Digital Pass or individual tickets to any of the fab films we've got this year. Link in bio!

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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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Reflections on the 75th Anniversary of a Nakba That Never Ended

In the decades since the event Palestinians know as "the Catastrophe," dispossession has become a timeless theme of the Palestinian experience.

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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

@CPhillipsPoet

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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bookshop.org/p/books/love-i

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Lisa Lucas

@likaluca

Apr 6

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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A man set fire to two mosques in Minneapolis, attacked and vandalized

@IlhanMN

's office, and targeted the Somali mall. This should be national news.

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Feds: Mosque arson suspect also targeted Ilhan Omar, Somali cop and businesses

The suspect was arrested over the weekend.

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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.

my girlfriend and i had our first fight and it's because of home depot 😅😂

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.

Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir a book by Randa Jarrar

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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Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "exuberant, defiant and introspective" memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim...

Sure, love your body. Feel confident! Be sexy! All that is great! It's not going to get us free. And the sooner ppl of all sizes realizes the stakes are higher than our individual relationships to our bodies, the closer to liberation we will be

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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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Our short film is going to Tribeca!

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Upsidedown | 2023 Tribeca Festival | Tribeca

The same day Randa tells her family she doesn't want to go college, an esteemed food critic comes to review her family's restaurant and turns everyone's day upside down.

‘Queen Cleopatra’ Director Speaks Out: ‘What Bothers You So Much About a Black Cleopatra?’ (EXCLU...

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Alt headline: egyptians absolutely clueless about the fact that they're Black

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Egyptians complain over Netflix depiction of Cleopatra as black bbc.in/3AaJPY3

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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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'Queen Cleopatra' director Tina Gharavi responds to those criticizing the series for casting a Black lead to play Cleopatra with African heritage.

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my people can be so pathetic, self-hating, colonized, and ultimately, stupid

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Pop Tingz

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Apr 21

An Egyptian lawyer has sued Netflix for “blackwashing history” over new Cleopatra documentary.

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Apr 22

my blue checkmark which i got in 2015 is gone. i refuse to give this site any of my money. happy weekend all!

I got my copy of

’s LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY kissed by the author 😌😘😘😘

Also shout out to maybe the greatest opening passage ever written?!?

Happy paperback pub day to

! LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY is out in paperback in an expanded edition with a fun new cover. I feel so happy for you if this is your first encounter with this incredible memoir. You're about to get (lovingly) rocked. books.catapult.co/books/love-is-

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seriously does anyone read books

men

Love is an Ex-Country is out in paperback this month—here's a reminder of why you should be reading

at all costs!

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Electric Literature

@ElectricLit

May 21, 2021

Deirdre Sugiuchi (@DJSugi) talks to “Love Is An Ex-Country” author Randa Jarrar about how America is failing us—and how we can make things better. electricliterature.com/randa-jarrar-m

Apr 10

went to the new lesbian bar with my boo and saw this a few blocks away

Israeli Occupation Forces brutally assaulting worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque

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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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