#fatimah asghar

[sunstrace]

The wolf and the lamb, the killer + the sound. — aise & joon.

1. soul eom, kiss, hug and die  //  2. ashley blanton, arteries //  3. theskeletonprior // 4. unknown // 5. ethel cain, strangers // 6. fatimah asghar, how’d your parents die again? // 7. angelica alzona, intimacy // 8. lauren collis, let me rest in peace // 9. unknown // 10. luna lu, anatomy of a hug // 11. ethel cain, dog days // 12. unknown // 13. kim jakobsson, i won't become // 14. ethel cain, strangers // 15. unknown // 16. ethel cain, strangers // 17. unknown

#aj #web-weaving #web weaving #webweaving #hehehehehe im so ANGSTY #ugh #put myself through the ringer with this one #jenn-edits #ethel cain #luna lu #kim jakobsson #fatimah asghar

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Jennifer Lynch The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer / Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig / James Baldwin Giovanni's Room / @filmnoirsbian / Warsan Shire Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth / Fatimah Asghar How'd Your Parents Die Again? / Christopher Isherwood A Single Man / Lorde Buzzcut Season

#on childhood #on family #on growing up #poetry parallels #web weave #web weaving #poetry compilation #jennifer lynch #the secret diary of laura palmer #lady bird #greta gerwig #james baldwin #giovanni's room #warsan shire #teaching my mother how to give birth #fatimah asghar #how'd your parents die again? #christopher isherwood #a single man #lorde #buzzcut season #poem #spilled poetry #spilled thoughts #poetry #spilled ink #dark academia #words #dark academia quote #dark academia poetry

[havingapoemwithyou]

Smell Is the Last Memory to Go by Fatimah Asghar

#Fatimah Asghar #poetry #poem

[texaschainsawmascara]

Aloha from Hell - Richard Kadrey / x / I Can Fly - Lana Del Rey / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Cut - Catherine Lacey / How’d Your Parents Die Again? - Fatimah Asghar / Margaret Atwood / Courtney Love Prays To Oregon - Clementine von Radics / The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore - Tennessee Williams / Vesuvius - Amber Sparks / Herakles - Euripides (tr. Tom Sleigh)

#parallels #web weaving #aloha from hell #richard kadrey #i can fly #lana del rey #big eyes #alejandro jodorowsky #catherine lacey #fatimah asghar #margaret atwood #courtney love prays to oregon #clementine von radics #lit #literature #pixel art #digital art #fire #home #tennessee williams #comparatives

[kafk-a]

Fatimah Asghar

#iced mango slices in the hot summer #kheer at graduation #Fatimah Asghar

[sacredkafka]

"Home is the first grave."

— Fatimah Asghar, from "How'd Your Parents Die Again?" published in the New York Times Magazine.

#literature #poetry #chaotic academia #dark academia #quotes #english literature #vent blog #game of thrones #house of the dragon #alicent hightower #aegon ii targaryen #web weaving #fatimah asghar #writing #motherhood

[alienside]

hometown blues

arcade fire, suburban war | rachel kahn, i know this | noah kahan, the view between villages | the lumineers, sleep on the floor | phoebe bridgers, i know the end | fatimah asghar, how did your parents die again | i know the end | c.p. cavafy, the city (tr. edmund keeley) | the view between villages | mahmoud darwish, journal of an ordinary grief | i know the end | lorde, 400 lux | noah kahan, paul revere | sidney gish, homecoming serf | i know the end | hanif abdurraqib, poems from an email exchange | alec holowka, die anywhere else

#web weaving #words #poetry #hanif abdurraqib #mahmoud darwish #noah kahan #phoebe bridgers #rachel kahn #arcade fire #c.p. cavafy #fatimah asghar #the lumineers #lorde #alec holowka #sidney gish #my posts

[smokefalls]

How terrible—to be an ordinary orphan. Not a wizard in waiting. Not a prophet who goes to a cave. Just—ordinary. All that grief, wasted. All that fucking grief for nothing.

Fatimah Asghar, When We Were Sisters

#Fatimah Asghar #When We Were Sisters #quote #fiction #queerlit #2023 reads

[fr0gg13b413]

home is the first grave // until i gather the strenth to drag my bones out the front door my soul will haunt these shadowed halls. the kitchen echos of angrily washed dishes and silent mornings, the living room reverberates arguments past and loud screams. the room is filled with quiet sobs and repeated whispers, just once more then you’ll be done, just hold on once more. but it’s once more in the same way that soon will never be here and then is never now.

#ineptias loquor #musings #fatimah asghar #on death #on bones #on home #on grief #on growing up #on responsibility #on time #on remembering #tag later

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar

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In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of her parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender; Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her crybaby younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in an impossible situation; and Noreen, the eldest, does her best in the role of sister-mother while also trying to create a life for herself, on her own terms. As Kausar grows up, she must contend with the collision of her private and public worlds, and choose whether to remain in the life of love, sorrow, and codependency she's known or carve out a new path for herself. When We Were Sisters tenderly examines the bonds and fractures of sisterhood, names the perils of being three Muslim American girls alone against the world, and ultimately illustrates how those who've lost everything might still make homes in each other.

Mod opinion: I've read and really enjoyed this book. It's a really interesting look at family and the way sisterhood can interact with gender.

#when we were sisters #fatimah asghar #polls #trans lit #trans literature #trans books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #nonbinary #contemporary fiction

[userparamore]

pluto shits on the universe, by fatimah asghar

#pluto shits on the universe #fatimah asghar #poem #poetry #writing #literature

[read-alert]

April is National Poetry Month! Here's some of my favorite collections! Full titles under the cut!

Feed by Tommy Pico

Black Movie by Danez Smith

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

The Twenty Ninth Year by Hala Alyan

If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon

IRL by Tommy Pico

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom

Homie by Danez Smith

Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

#bookblr #poetry #national poetry month #kai cheng thom #danez smith #tommy pico #alok vaid-menon #langston hughes #fatimah asghar #hala alyan #claudia rankine

[whilereadingandwalking]

When their father dies, all the three sisters have is each other. Taken in by their neglectful uncle, they're left to support one another: the eldest Noreen, middle child Aisha, and our narrator, Kausar. When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar tells the story of their struggle to finding a place where they can be okay, their growing up in this chaotic world of feeling unwanted, their need for love and their struggle under a combination of harsh rules and neglect.

I ended up finishing When We Were Sisters in one, insomnia-fueled read. Poetic and rich with love, this book is an incredible tale of siblinghood and trauma. As Kausar grows up, she confronts gender dysphoria and sexuality, while watching her sisters pull away; she confronts the inner rage she's always harbored under layers of wanting to forgive and be loved; she faces the difficulties of growing up as a Muslim American girl. This book has so much heart, and it transfers through the pages—you feel all the complicated ups and downs of loneliness, love, and pain in the pit of your stomach thanks to Asghar's excellent writing.  

Content warnings for family death, misogyny, emotional abuse and neglect, Islamophobia, sexual assault, body/gender dysphoria.

#when we were sisters #fatimah asghar #bookish love #bookworm #contemporary fiction #queer fiction #queer books #my book reviews

[one-poetic-soul]

"Kal" ~Fatimah Asghar

#poetry #fatimah asghar #if they come for us #loss

[emiliefitch]

@asoftwrongness / Fatimah Asghar How'd Your Parents Die Again? / @teenbeachmovie3 / Clementine Von Radics Courtney Love Prays To Oregon / @margautshorjian / Elizabeth Wurtzel

#home #homesick #homesickness #poetry #web weaving #fatimah asghar #clementine von radics #elizabeth wurtzel #my web weaving

[soon-palestine]

Dec 21, 2023

#palestine #gaza #fatimah asghar #PEN