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thoughtkick · 9 months

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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

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resqectable · 5 months

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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

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surqrised · 5 months

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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

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padawan-historian · 6 months

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To better upRoot our miseducation about settler-colonialism, antisemitism, islamophobia, apartheid, and the growing military industrial complex, here are a few urgent and timely reading recommendations from your friendly neighborhood historian (books with ** are my padawan picks)

Books on Muslim Identities & Solidarities:

Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: Twenty Years After 9/11 | Deepa Kumar **

The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims | Khaled A. Beydoun

Tolerance and Risk: How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims | Mitra Rastegar **

The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror | Arun Kundnani **

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza | Mosab Abu Toha **

The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine | Ben Ehrenreich

Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom | Rebecca Gould **

Books on Jewish Identities & Religious Imperialism:

Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey | Suzanne Berliner Weiss **

A Land with a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

Ten Myths about Israel | Ilan Pappe **

Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto: Writing Our History

Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew' | Antony Lerman **

Books on the Histories & Afterlives of Palestine:

The Palestinians | Rosemary Sayigh

The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine | Bernard Regan **

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 | Rashid Khalidi **

The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine | Salim Tamari

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine | Ilan Pappe **

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel | Andrew Ross **

Gaza Under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance | Bjorn Brenner

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories | Ilan Pappe

The Battle for Justice in Palestine | Ali Abunimah

In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water | James Fergusson **

Books on Queer Liberation & Apartheid:

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique | Sa'ed Atshan **

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir | Samra Habib **

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times | Jasbir K. Puar

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation | Eli Clare

Books for Young Readers & Growing Families on Palestine, Apartheid, and Racism:

Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation **

You Are The Color **

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water **

A Little Piece of Ground

Wishing Upon the Same Stars **

The Shepherd's Granddaughter **

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom **

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier **

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World **

Books for upRooting Political & Academic Imperialism

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics | Marc Lamont Hill + Mitchell Plitnick **

Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial | Saree Makdisi

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World | Antony Loewenstein **

We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel | Eric Alterman **

Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories | Virginia Tilley

Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom | Keisha Blain

Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis | Matt Mitchelson

Books for Decolonized Scholarship & Community Building:

The Wretched of the Earth | Franz Fanon **

Necropolitics | Achille Mbembe **

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement | Angela Davis **

Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women's Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System | Nahla Abdo **

Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right | Elizabeth Fekete

The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World | Kehinde Andrews **

The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression | Tariq D. Khan

Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution | Walter Rodney

You can explore more decolonized book recs + history reads over on Neighborhood Historian or access deeper history lessons (and support these public resources + works) through my Patreon.

#books to read #solidarity with palestine against apartheid #black solidarity with palestine #free palestine #free us all #padawan historian #decolonize your bookshelf #the fire is here #our history is your history #book recommendations #resources for you #antiracist resources

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stay-close · 7 months

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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

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thepersonalquotes · 1 year

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“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.” - Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

#quotes #words #quote #poetry #poems

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perfectquote · 1 year

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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

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nightlyquotes · 9 months

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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

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wholesomequotess · 1 year

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In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

- Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

#sky quotes

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perfectfeelings · 2 years

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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

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belovedhomo · 5 months

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1 and 24 for the book ask!! :D

Thank you! I track these things obsessively. I've read 28 full length books! And I've DNF'd 12 books.

thanks for asking!

Here's a list of both:

Read (bold = favorite)

Patricia Wants to Cuddle - Samantha Allen

Negative Space - BR Yeager

The House in Abigail Lane - Kealan Patrick Burke

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Different Seasons - Stephen King

The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon

Found: An Anthology of Found Footage

Scanlines - Todd Keisling

This is Where We Talk Things Out - Caitlin Marceau

The World Cannot Give - Tara Isabella Burton

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

Fluids - May Leitz

The Elementals - Michael McDowell

Educated - Tara Westover

Say Nothing: A True Story of Memory and Murder in Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

Psychic Teenage Bloodbath - Carl John Lee

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (reread)

Mister Magic - Kiersten White

The Last Days of Jack Sparks - Jason Arnopp

The Bayou - Arden Powell

The Iliad - Homer

Helpmeet - Naben Ruthnum

The Weight of Blood - Tiffany D. Jackson

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah

Suffer the Children - Craig DiLouie

Intercepts - TJ Payne

and i'm hoping to finish at least 5 more books, but we shall see! (Les Mis, The Once Yellow House, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Penance, and Pet Sematary)

as for DNFs;

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss: Too tedious even for me

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay: I feel there's more up to date feminist literature to read

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Catherine Lacey: as a Mexican, the way she talked about death and corpses left a bad taste in my mouth.

Kentukis - Samanta Schwelbin (Little Eyes in the translation): Gave up on this author, the stories went nowhere at all.

Heaven - Mieko Kawakami: I felt this book was going to leave me with nothing

Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel: This is just the set up for something very NGE and I didn't wanna commit to a saga

Anybody Home? by Michael J Seidlinger: Tries too hard

Ugly Girls - Lindsay Hunter: Wouldn't give me what i was craving atm

The Children of Red Peak - Craig DiLouie: Too infodumpy

Brutes - Dizz Tate: Wasn't providing what I needed

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers: cringe

Stolen Tongues - Felix Blackwell: A creepypasta turned book that extends too much, weird treatment of Native American characters.

#inbox

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thoughtkick · 2 years

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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

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jiyoos · 6 months

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i want to suggest a book. it is called "a long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier" by ishmael beah. ishmael was a child soldier during the civil war in sierra leone but was rescued by unicef and even today he is unicef advocate for children affected by war and this book details his time as a child soldier and his rehabilitation. in war, it is always the children that suffer the most. please read this book and think of the children in gaza who are fighting to stay alive while having their worlds shattered every day. they need to know that there are possibilities for life after war. this will not be the end for them and we need to do what we can to preserve their futures. if you can, please donate to unicef's relief fund to help the children in gaza. thank you for reading

#jtext #gaza #palestine #i don't think you need to read a book to know how horrible the situation is BUT #rather i would like people to think of the future of the children. and see the hope of children #i read this book in middle school and think about it every day #and i think it never hurts to read someone's first hand account #of being a child in wartime #and i think it is also good to see how unicef helps these children as well #anyway please donate if you can #text

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quotefeeling · 2 years

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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

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resqectable · 2 years

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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

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perfeqt · 2 years

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