the beauty of the husband, anne carson // entry for not an island, gabriel jesiolowski // because there are graveyards, adira bennett // the torn-up road, richard siken // the red parts, maggie nelson // fictional characters, danusha laméris // on earth we’re briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong // two or three things i know for sure, dorothy allison // the palace, kaveh akbar // the book of questions, edmond jabès (trans. rosmarie waldrop).
Today, people in Oakland, California, Eugene, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois have blocked major highways. Demonstrators in Minnesota blockaded an Amazon facility. Others from Canada to Australia have shut down ports and other infrastructure.
These courageous actions in solidarity with Palestinians are just one step towards stopping the genocide in Gaza, where the Israeli military has slaughtered over 34,000 people, the majority of whom are women and children.
It's up to us to create a world without colonial violence of any kind.