🇵🇸 Good morning, my beautiful bookish bats. Can I start by saying a huge THANK YOU for sharing my Queer Palestinian Book post? Seriously, thank you so much. Let's keep that momentum by observing Read Palestine Week (Nov 29 - Dec 5). I've compiled a list of books to help you, along with a list of upcoming events and resources you can use this week and beyond.
🇵🇸 A collective of over 350 global publishers and individuals issued a public statement expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people. Publishers for Palestine have organized an international #ReadPalestine week, starting today (International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People).
🇵🇸 These publishers have made many resources and e-books available for free (with more to come). A few include award-winning fiction and poetry by Palestinian and Palestinian diaspora authors. You'll also find non-fiction books about Palestinian history, politics, arts, culture, and “books about organizing, resistance, and solidarity for a Free Palestine.” You can visit publishersforpalestine.org to download some of the books they have available.
POETRY
🌙 Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha
🌙 Affiliation by Mira Mattar
🌙 Enemy of the Sun by Samih al-Qasim
🌙 I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
🌙 A Mountainous Journey by Fadwa Tuqan
🌙 So What by Taha Muhammad Ali
🌙 The Butterfly’s Burden by Mahmoud Darwish
🌙 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha
FICTION
🌙 Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
🌙 Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales
🌙 Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
🌙 Morning in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
🌙 Gaze Writes Back by Young Writers in Gaze
🌙 Palestine +100:Stories from a Century after the Nakba
🌙 Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh
🌙 Out of Time by Samira Azzam
🌙 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher
🌙 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
🌙 A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
🌙 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
🌙 Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
🌙 The Woman From Tantoura by Radwa Ashour
NON-FICTION
🌙 Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour
🌙 Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh
🌙 Palestinian Art, 1850–2005 by Kamal Boullata
🌙 Palestine by Joe Sacco
🌙 The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker by Sami Al Jundi & Jen Marlowe
🌙 Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
🌙 Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat
🌙 The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine by Yousef Khalil Bashir
🌙 Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution by Hanan Karaman Munayyer
🌙 Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture by Salim Tamari
🌙 This Is Not a Border: Reportage and Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
🌙 We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, by Raja Shehadeh
🌙 Les échos de la mémoire. Une enfance palestinienne à Jérusalem, by Issa J. Boullata
🌙 A Party For Thaera: Palestinian Women Write Life In Prison
🌙 Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire,
🌙 Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
don't suppose you could elaborate on penelope's backstory/generally talk about her? shes so cute i love her >///<
The quote wizard she got her curse from is this guy, originally just Raccoon Wizard he gave himself a more professional sounding name to be taken seriously. Even if Penelope and Tuff don't converse on the regular anymore they consider each other friends after Penelope approached him concerning her request.
Penelope appreciates his laxness in terms of what constitutes as worthy things of using magic for. And what really counts as a curse or not. He was given the opportunity to test if the curse was successful, and Penelope got a little too distracted with being happy that it did work.
Just a tiny selection of some of the great Hispanic & Latinx books out there. I just finished Woven in Moonlight the other day and it has such a gorgeous world and magic, I’m tempted to get right to the sequel.
Lobizona by Romina Garber
Furia, Yamile Saied Mendez
Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez
Meet Me Halfway, Anika Fajardo
The Lightning Dreamer by Margarita Engle
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
Solito: A Memoir, Javier Zamora
Where I Belong, Marcia Argueta Mickelson
The One Who Loves You Most, Medina
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything, Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Breathe and Count Back from Ten, Natalia Sylvester
Together We Burn, Isabel Ibañez
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya
The Lightning Queen by Laura Resau
Apukunaq Tianan a Quechua (''The abode of the gods”) is a tourist attraction in Cusco, Peru that features 20-30 feet tall stone sculptures of Andean gods and sacred animals. Despite it’s ‘ancient’ appearance, these are modern sculptures created by sculptor Michael de Titan.
In Jewish culture, pomegranates traditionally symbolize fertility and love, and are often said to have 613 seeds, one for each mitzvah. They are a common theme in Jewish art and are often mentioned in Jewish texts.
The hamsa is a symbol of luck and protection shared by many cultures with middle eastern roots. It has been interpreted as a Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Pagan symbol. In Judaism in particular, it is sometimes referred to as the hand of Miriam, and has been very popular with Sephardic Jews.
I'm playing bg3 again and trying out the honor mode (which as it turns out, might be a bad idea if you never beat the game in general, much less beat it in tactician mode) and I have been confronted with the fact that I absolutely have dnd race favoritism and it absolutely is contributing to my need for many many bg3 saves because I constantly think "hmmm I want to try playing as a deep gnome to see if I get special dialog with Barcus Wroot, the Iron hands, and the underdark" before picking Drow for the 4th time.
✨ Fiction stories can make an individual's experience universal and easier to understand from an outsider's perspective. We learn about one another's histories, realities, and cultures through fiction stories, even if we don't realize it. As a way of educating yourself and empathizing, here are a few Palestinian fiction books you can add to your ever-growing TBR for read Palestine Week.
🇵🇸 Please, please help me ensure these books receive the attention they deserve by sharing this post.
🌙 Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
🇵🇸 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
✨ A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
🇵🇸 The Sea Cloak: And Other Stories by Nayrouz Qarmout
✨ Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh
🌙 The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
🇵🇸 Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba
✨ Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
🌙 We are All Equally Far from Love by Adania Shibli
🇵🇸 My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh
✨ Where the Bird Disappeared by Ghassan Zaqtan
🌙 Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat
🇵🇸 Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry
✨ You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
Fans call themselves ‘The Promisers’ and call Soft Violence fans (especially those who were Alana or Alana/Seven fans) ‘Broken Promises’. (Alana has no idea about this, or she’d be heartbroken)
The mainstream calls her the ‘Mexican Taylor Swift’, which MOST of her fans hate, but some -- get it. (Alana thinks it’s flattering!)
She has been playing guitar most of her life, and used to post tutorials. She doesn’t as much any more. However, she does still have an online presence -- a lot of it is spent thanking fans, posting pictures about cookies native to places she’s toured, gushing over fashion, and supporting trans rights.
Her fans are SUPER over protective of her because they think she’s a ‘cinnamon roll too soft for the world; too pure’ and a ‘naive romantic (affectionate)’
She vocally sounds like a mix of Lindi Ortega (she’s actually done a cover of ‘To Love Somebody’ too that sounds similar) and Brandi Carlile.*
Her fans absolutely go gaga for her commitment to faerie tale and romantic aesthetics on stage (and for the camera); and are as dedicated to wearing something pink (or pastel) whenever Promised Promises performs. Some even wear flower crowns. Yes, even the chadbros.
There is no one in the world who can get her to bad mouth Seven. And she’s a supporter of Soft Violence. Much to many of the Promisers chargin. (As for the few who secrety the ship the two women and wish for a best friend reunion -- well, they’re smart enough to keep that to themselves. JK: They don’t but most try to ignore them. They’re seen as worse than the Broken Promisers).