#book list 2020

[finelythreadedsky]

JSTOR Wrapped: top ten JSTOR articles of 2023

Coo, Lyndsay. “A Tale of Two Sisters: Studies in Sophocles’ Tereus.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 143, no. 2 (2013): 349–84.

Finglass, P. J. “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ ‘Tereus.’” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 61–85.

Foxhall, Lin. “Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Garrison, Elise P. “Eurydice’s Final Exit to Suicide in the ‘Antigone.’” The Classical World 82, no. 6 (1989): 431–35.

Grethlein, Jonas. “Eine Anthropologie Des Essens: Der Essensstreit in Der ‘Ilias’ Und Die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, no. 3 (2005): 257–79.

McClure, Laura. “Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy.” Illinois Classical Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 219–36.

Purves, Alex C.  “Wind and Time in Homeric Epic.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 140, no. 2 (2010): 323–50.

Richlin, Amy. “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 202–20. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Rood, Naomi. “Four Silences in Sophocles’ ‘Trachiniae.’” Arethusa 43, no. 3 (2010): 345–64.

Zeitlin, Froma I. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 149–84.

#alphabetical order. im not ranking them #i still have two more froma zeitlin essays to read (one new and one a reread) in the next few days though #and its possible one of those might knock amy richlin off the rest (nothing personal; its a great piece just not my area) #but if im willing to have two things by the same scholar i would have to rethink including grethlein 'the poetics of the bath in the iliad' #some of my favorite articles/book chapters of the year are not on jstor though... #bill beck 'lost in the middle: story time and discourse time in the iliad'!!! #and lyndsay coo has a 2020 chapter updating and expanding this 2013 article that is 🔥🔥🔥 #and of course judith mossman 'women's voices in sophocles' which is what send me to garrison 1989 and rood 2010 but is not itself on jstor #i also reread some of melissa mueller's objects as actors book which is wonderful as always #and i would be incredibly tempted to put william m calder iii's tereus article on a top ten list for sheer entertainment value #jstor wrapped #mine

[machinavocis]

tl;dr the last 24 hours:

roommate & i have decided we will, in fact, be getting the fuck out of utah.

but where the fuck out that will be, we have almost no clue.

& so the quest begins.

#(roommate is just like. existentially exhausted by Being Here. & i totally get it. that's a reasonable response.) #(& the funny thing is i'd also been feeling like i Wanted to Be Not Here but i hadn't figured out how to tell roommate about this) #(but then literally the next day he's like yeah so i feel like i maybe want to be Not Here? so like. i think we will be Doing That.) #so i pitched the idea of meeting up later this week to order some takeout dinner & make a Big Ol' List of must-haves & would-like-to-haves #& then start Doing Research & looking into whereabouts fits a sufficient amount of the bill & therefore might warrant an in person vibechec #so yeah lol hi friends do any of you like & recommend the united state you are currently living in #is it culturally & legislatively progressive enough that disabled people like roommate feel like they are generally Given a Shit About #at least more so than here lol #prior to 2020 census redistricting our federal congressperson was a man who wrote a book abt how The Liberals are 'whiners weenies & wimps' #an Extremely Normal Mormon Republican Man #such jesus very compassion

[ringsidedishes]

i still can't believe despe won

(this will be the only thing i'll talk about for etc etc)

#dishesrambles #the way he won too #like he looked so strooonnggg #it reminded me a little of his match vs akira last bosj which altho i havent made a moty list 2023 yet that one would be on there #catnip for me #i could watch it another few times and not get bored of it #ive been fantasy booking him ofc. wanna see him vs titan and robbie. hope he keeps the belt until after bosj and also wins bosj #and he'd win in the finals against hiromu ofc how else #is that asking too much? perhaps!!! #i was just super convinced this would be a dope match but hiromu would continue and maybe get that record defenses he wanted #altho i also wasnt too excited about his title reign (tho i really like how he used it and went just about everywhere with it) #(also tbf i kinda wanted to see hiromu and naito both with belts and then do the match they were gonna do in 2020 but couldnt bc covid) #i still can't believe it. also didnt think it'd set my brain on fire like this. that match was so sexy #so excited to see where this goes with him #'the wrestler makes the belt' and theyre right bc DESPE HAS THE BELT #ahem anyway ny dash today with DESPE WITH HIS BELT

[essektheylyss]

okay but actually I'm remembering all of the things that slap about the Circle of Magic series and... perhaps instead of starting my rewatch of c2 I will just finally do a full proper reread of the whole series now that I own every Emelan book and finally read Battle Magic

also tbt when I reread Briar's book in April 2020. never question my resolve my sheer force of will is stronger than you can imagine

#to be clear that's a joke but #also hooo boy it was a Thing #I also read station eleven in 2020 and that book sucked. god I hated it so much. why did everyone fawn over it. AWFUL truly #people were like 'omg it was prescient' IT WASN'T THO IT WAS JUST SOME BULLSHIT this is why I hate lit fic sorry #anyway lmfao #listen okay battle magic has been ON MY LIST but #then I won't have any more new emelan books :((( #anyway mostly reminiscing about how the niko>tris>keth lineage was always my fave cuz I was a Neeeeerd and #yeah. yeah that explains so much about me frankly. #I've said it a lot but. my beloveds. #nobody talk to me about niklaren goldeye. I want to be that man so badly. #also like. emelan having a major impact on my psyche also explains a lot about my religious inclinations but we won't get into that #no one talk to me about religion unless you've read pantheologies (2018)

[emometalhead]

top 5 lesbian films :-)

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

Booksmart (2019)

Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

The Perfection (2019)

Thank you for asking, Lee!! 🖤

#mostly unrelated but I recently watched Russian Doll with my mom and was personally offended by her not finding Natasha Lyonne attractive #she was seriously like 'I don't understand how anyone could find her attractive' meanwhile I was like drooling lol #also cold medicine is really taking my brain out because I initally typed 5 TV shows before remembering that wasn't the question #the perfection isn't even that good I just like that they're messed up cellists #the miseducation of cameron post is actually my all time favorite lesbian book so that love has transferred to the movie #also excited to watch Crush (2022) but haven't gotten around to it yet #watched some scenes of Ammonite (2020) today and it was boooooring #basically this list is the ones I've watched more than once and enjoyed lol #there's plenty of lesbian movies I've seen and hated or only sort of liked. it's a struggle finding interesting ones! #asks #lee

[voluptuarian]

Tagged by @ravenkings (😘😘) to post 9 books I'm planning to read in 2023. I am also concentrating on making some progress on my To Read pile this year, so most of these are books I've already gotten my hands on, but haven't gotten around to reading (or just haven't finished) yet.

tagging: @kecharitomene, @thelovelygods, @a-story-teller, @iskarieot, @morgainelefaey

#second year I've had essex serpent on this list lol #and I haven't made any progress on the master and margarita since I got interrupted in 2020 #it's one of those books where you have to read it all in one go or you get lost and can't start back up without a lot of rereading #hopefully I can force myself to go through that this year #started book of dreams last year but didn't finish it before the year's end #and peshawar lancers has been on my bookcase for almost as long as Gloriana so I really want to get that read #tagged #ravenkings #books #reading

[curiosity-killed]

Book questions: 11 16?

11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?

Honestly, I've mostly been reading fiction this year but Pax Romana and Apollo's Angels are my sort of continuous slow-reading. I really enjoyed The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman a while ago

16. how many books have you read this year?

Finished my 15th last night!

Book asks 📚

#book ask game #asked & answered #anonymice #i think i read a couple other nonfiction books in 2020 but don't currently remember them lol #i know nothing abt the book i'm starting tonight except it has a neat cover lmao #i still haven't been able to get any of the books off my book list from the library x___x

[wordsunbound]

I received a card from one of my favorite authors ever today! I love Robin Roe's writing so much, and I just love her in general. I never thought I would have an opportunity to grow close to someone that I deem famous/well known like I have with Robin. We started talking around the time I read her book A List of Cages in 2019 because I had posted on my Instagram on how it had only taken me six hours to even read the book. She asked me how I was doing after I had written on her post a year later around my dad's passing in the comments. However, she immediately dm'd me privately to dive more into how I was.

Flash forward to this year, she gave me an opportunity to read the advanced copy of her book: Dark Room Etiquette and she inspired me to start writing something very personal; hopefully it will become an actual book someday. She went out of her way to read some of it and I wanted to cry because I didn't believe I'd get so lucky to have an author actually compliment what I had came up during a two hour writing session without any editing.

She asked me for my address and said she really wanted to send me a card and after I had a horrible week at work, this card made my heart melt. I cannot compliment Robin enough for her work and for her sweet heart she has. She is a blessing and I'm so glad she has entered my life at a time I never thought I'd need her most.

Thank you, Robin. <3

#Robin Roe #author #writer #list of cages #books #booktok #bookstagram #book tumblr #letters #card #wholesome #adorable #thank you #dark room etiquette #2022 #2020 #2021 #bibliophile

[do-rey-me]

1 and 3 for book asks? :)

thanks for asking!! :D

1. book you've read the most times?

hard to say tbh? probably either the first lotr book in my edition in the same way that fellowship of the ring is definitely the movie ive watched the most. bc i keep trying to reread the whole series and dont always Commit. or night watch by terry pratchett. i try to limit myself to only reading it every May but i do not always succeed. yes i am in fact currently reading it.

3. what's your favorite genre?

definitely fantasy, as shown above lol

#rey rambles #kinda feels like im forgetting something obvious for the first one? who knows #ive also read golden compass quite a few times? but i dont think any more than either of my answers #feet of clay is another one ive read A Lot bc its my favorite discworld book (probably) #then again i only got super into discworld in 2020? #so it feels like neither of those should be on the list And Yet #anyways my memory is fragile what else is new. by this point ive practically answerrd the top 5 fav books question #id apologize for my rambling but also you had to have known what u were getting into here lol #my posts

[hussyknee]

17/12/23 this masterlist has been completely, vetted, revamped and reformatted with free access to all reading and viewing material. It will be updated and edited periodically so please try and reblog the original post if you're able.

The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

(Yes, it's a lot. Just choose your preferred medium and then pick one.)

Podcasts

Backgrounders and Quick Facts

Interactive Maps

Teach-Out Resources

Reading Material (free)

Films and Documentaries (free)

Non-Governmental Organizations

Social Media

How You Can Help

Podcasts

Cocktails & Capitalism: The Story of Palestine Part 1, Part 3

It Could Happen Here: The Cheapest Land is Bought with Blood, Part 2, The Balfour Declaration

Citations Needed: Media narratives and consent manufacturing around Israel-Palestine and the Gaza Siege

The Deprogram: Free Palestine, ft. decolonizatepalestine.com.

Backgrounders and Quick Facts

The Palestine Academy: Palestine 101

Institute for Middle East Understanding: Explainers and Quick Facts

Interactive Maps

Visualizing Palestine

Teach-Out Resources

1) Cambridge UCU and Pal Society

Palestine 101

Intro to Palestine Film + Art + Literature

Resources for Organising and Facilitating)

2) The Jadaliya YouTube Channel of the Arab Studies Institute

Gaza in Context Teach-in series

War on Palestine podcast

Updates and Discussions of news with co-editors Noura Erakat and Mouin Rabbani.

3) The Palestine Directory

History (virtual tours, digital archives, The Palestine Oral History Project, Documenting Palestine, Queering Palestine)

Cultural History (Palestine Open Maps, Overdue Books Zine, Palestine Poster Project)

Contemporary Voices in the Arts

Get Involved: NGOs and campaigns to help and support.

3) PalQuest Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.

4) The Palestine Remix by Al Jazeera

Books and Articles

Free reading material

My Gdrive of Palestine/Decolonization Literature (nearly all the books recommended below + books from other recommended lists)

Five free eBooks by Verso

Three Free eBooks on Palestine by Haymarket

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

Recommended Reading List

Academic Books

Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House

Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge

Ilan Pappé (2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications

Ilan Pappé (2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press

Ilan Pappé (2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books

Ilan Pappé (2017) The Biggest Prison On Earth: A History Of The Occupied Territories, OneWorld Publications

Ilan Pappé (2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press

Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury

Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books

Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance 1917–2017

Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.

Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press

Jeff Halper (2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

Jeff Halper (2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press

Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World

Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, Stanford University Press

Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press

Joseph Massad (2006) The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge

Memoirs

Edward Said (1986) After the Last Sky: Palestine Lives, Columbia University PEdward Saidress

Edward Said (2000) Out of Place; A Memoir, First Vintage Books

Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury

Hatim Kanaaneh (2008) A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel, Pluto Press

Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: Into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books

Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books

Vittorio Arrigoni (2010) Gaza Stay Human, Kube Publishing

Ramzy Baroud (2010) My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story, Pluto Press

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury

Atef Abu Saif (2015) The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary, Beacon Press

Anthologies

Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)

Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine

Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1992) Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature, Columbia University Press

ASHTAR Theatre (2010) The Gaza Monologues

Refaat Alreer (ed) (2014) Gaza Writes Back, Just World Books

Refaat Alreer, Laila El-Haddad (eds) (2015) Gaza Unsilenced, Just World Books

Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books

Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing (eds) (2022) Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, Haymarket Books

Short Story Collections

Ghassan Kanafani, Hilary Kilpatrick (trans) (1968) Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories, Lynne Rienner Publishers

Ghassan Kanafani, Barbara Harlow, Karen E. Riley (trans) (2000) Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories, Lynne Rienner Publishers

Atef Abu Saif (2014) The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction, Comma Press

Samira Azzam, Ranya Abdelrahman (trans) (2022) Out Of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam

Sonia Sulaiman (2023) Muneera and the Moon; Stories Inspired by Palestinian Folklore

Essay Collections

Edward W. Said (2000) Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, Harvard University Press

Salim Tamari (2008) Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture, University of California Press

Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury

Ramzy Baroud (2019) These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, Clarity Press

Novels

Sahar Khalifeh (1976) Wild Thorns, Saqi Books

Liyana Badr (1993) A Balcony over the Fakihani, Interlink Books

Hala Alyan (2017) Salt Houses, Harper Books

Susan Abulhawa (2011) Mornings in Jenin, Bloomsbury

Susan Abulhawa (2020) Against the Loveless World, Bloomsbury

Graphic novels

Joe Sacco (2001) Palestine

Joe Sacco (2010) Footnotes in Gaza

Naji al-Ali (2009) A Child in Palestine, Verso Books

Mohammad Sabaaneh (2021) Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, Street Noise Book*

Poetry

Fady Joudah (2008) The Earth in the Attic, Sheridan Books,

Ghassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah (trans) (2012) Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me and Other Poems, Yale University Press

Hala Alyan (2013) Atrium: Poems, Three Rooms Press*

Mohammed El-Kurd (2021) Rifqa, Haymarket Books

Mosab Abu Toha (2022) Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, City Lights Publishers

Tawfiq Zayyad (2023) We Are Here to Stay, Smokestack Books*

The Works of Mahmoud Darwish

Poems

Rafeef Ziadah (2011) We Teach Life, Sir

Nasser Rabah (2022) In the Endless War

Refaat Alareer (2011) If I Must Die

Hiba Abu Nada (2023) I Grant You Refuge/ Not Just Passing

[All books except the ones starred are available in my gdrive. I'm adding more each day. But please try and buy whatever you're able or borrow from the library. Most should be available in the discounted Free Palestine Reading List by Pluto Press, Verso and Haymarket Books.]

Human Rights Reports & Documents

Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’

UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022

Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022

Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021

Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)

Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004

Films

Documentaries

Jenin, Jenin (2003) dir. Mohammed Bakri

Massacre (2005) dir. Monica Borgmann, Lokman Slim, Hermann Theissen

Slingshot HipHop (2008) dir. Jackie Reem Salloum

Waltz with Bashir (2008) dir. Ari Folman † (also on Amazon Prime)

Tears of Gaza (2010) dir. Vibeke Løkkeberg (also on Amazon Prime)

5 Broken Cameras (2011) dir. Emad Burnat (also on Amazon Prime)

The Gatekeepers (2012) dir. Dror Moreh (also on Amazon Prime)

The Great Book Robbery (2012) | Al Jazeera English

Al Nakba (2013) | Al Jazeera (5-episode docu-series)

The Village Under the Forest (2013) dir. Mark J. Kaplan

Where Should The Birds Fly (2013) dir. Fida Qishta

Naila and the Uprising (2017) (also on Amazon Prime)

GAZA (2019) dir. Andrew McConnell and Garry Keane

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) dir. Abby Martin

Little Palestine: Diary Of A Siege (2021) dir. Abdallah Al Khatib 

Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story (2021) | Al Jazeera World Documentary

Gaza Fights Back (2021) | MintPress News Original Documentary | dir. Dan Cohen

Innocence (2022) dir. Guy Davidi

Short Films

Fatenah (2009) dir. Ahmad Habash

Gaza-London (2009) dir. Dina Hamdan

Condom Lead (2013) dir. Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser

OBAIDA (2019) | Defence for Children Palestine

Theatrical Films

Divine Intervention (2002) | dir. Elia Suleiman (also on Netflix)

Paradise Now (2005) dir Hany Abu-Assad (also on Amazon Prime)

Lemon Tree (2008) (choose auto translate for English subs) (also on Amazon Prime)

It Must Be Heaven (2009) | dir. Elia Suleiman †

The Promise (2010) mini-series dir. Peter Kosminsky (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Habibi (2011)* dir. Susan Youssef

Omar (2013)* dir. Hany Abu-Assad †

3000 Nights (2015)* dir. Mai Masri

Foxtrot (2017) dir. Samuel Maoz (also on Amazon Prime)

The Time that Remains (2019) dir. Elia Suleiman †

Gaza Mon Amour (2020) dir. Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser †

The Viewing Booth (2020) dir. Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (on Amazon Prime and Apple TV)

Farha (2021)* | dir. Darin J. Sallam

Palestine Film Institute Archive

All links are for free viewing. The ones marked with a star (*) can be found on Netflix, while the ones marked † can be downloaded for free from my Mega account.

If you find Guy Davidi's Innocence anywhere please let me know, I can't find it for streaming or download even to rent or buy.

In 2018, BDS urged Netflix to dump Fauda, a series created by former members of IOF death squads that legitimizes and promotes racist violence and war crimes, to no avail. Please warn others to not give this series any views. BDS has not called for a boycott of Netflix. ]

Planning to link two separate posts here listing all the books in my drive and all the films I couldn't include here. Check back for updates.

NGOs

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement

Medical Aid for Palestinians

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor

Palestine Defence for Children International

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

Institute for Palestine Studies

Al Haq

Artists for Palestine

The Palestine Museum

Jewish Currents

B’Tselem

DAWN

Social Media

Palestnians on Tumblr

@el-shab-hussein

@killyfromblame

@apollos-olives

@fairuzfan

@palipunk

@sar-soor

@nabulsi

@ibtisams

@wearenotjustnumbers2

@90-ghost (is in Gaza right now. Please donate to his GFM and boost it.)

@tamarrud

Allies and advocates (not Palestinian)

@bloglikeanegyptian beautiful posts that read like op-eds

@vyorei daily news roundups

@luthienne resistance through prose

@decolonize-the-left scoop on the US political plans and impacts

@feluka

(Please don't expect any of these blogs to be completely devoted to Palestine allyship; they do post regularly about it but they're still personal blogs and post whatever else they feel like. Do not harrass them.)

Gaza journalists

Motaz Azaiza IG: @motaz_azaiza | Twitter: @azaizamotaz9 | TikTok: _motaz.azaiza (left Gaza as of Jan 23)

Bisan Owda IG and TikTok: wizard_bisan1 | Twitter: @wizardbisan

Saleh Aljafarawi IG: @saleh_aljafarawi | Twitter: @S_Aljafarawi | TikTok: @saleh_aljafarawi97

Plestia Alaqad IG: @byplestia | TikTok: @plestiaaqad (left Gaza)

Wael Al-Dahdouh IG: @wael_eldahdouh | Twitter: @WaelDahdouh (left Gaza as of Jan 13)

Hind Khoudary IG: @hindkhoudary | Twitter: @Hind_Gaza

Ismail Jood IG and TikTok: @ismail.jood (announced end of coverage on Jan 25)

Yara Eid IG: @eid_yara | Twitter: @yaraeid_

Eye on Palestine IG: @eye.on.palestine | Twitter: @EyeonPalestine | TikTok: @eyes.on.palestine

Muhammad Shehada Twitter: @muhammadshehad2

(Edit: even though some journos have evacuated, the footage up to the end of their reporting is up on their social media, and they're also doing urgent fundraisers to get their families and friends to safety. Please donate or share their posts.)

News organisations

The Electronic Intifada Twitter: @intifada | IG: @electronicintifada

Quds News Network Twitter and Telegram: @QudsNen | IG: @qudsn (Arabic)

Times of Gaza IG: @timesofgaza | Twitter: @Timesofgaza | Telegram: @TIMESOFGAZA

The Palestine Chronicle Twitter: @PalestineChron | IG: @palestinechron | @palestinechronicle

Al-Jazeera Twitter: @AJEnglish | IG and TikTok: @aljazeeraenglish, @ajplus

Middle East Eye IG and TikTok: @middleeasteye | Twitter: @MiddleEastEye

Democracy Now Twitter and IG: @democracynow TikTok: @democracynow.org

Haaretz* Twitter: @Haaretz | IG: haaretzcom

Mondoweiss IG and TikTok: @mondoweiss | Twitter: @Mondoweiss

The Intercept Twitter and IG: @theintercept

MintPress Twitter: @MintPressNews | IG: mintpress

Novara Media Twitter and IG: @novaramedia

Truthout Twitter and IG: @truthout

[*Please note that Haaretz is an Israeli Liberal Zionist newspaper and heavily propagandized against Palestine. It's included here only as a Zionist critic of the Israeli government and IDF from within Israel.]

Palestnians on Other Social Media

Mouin Rabbani: Middle East analyst specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs. Twitter: @MouinRabbani

Noura Erakat: Legal scholar, human rights attorney, specialising in Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Twitter: @4noura | IG: @nouraerakat | (http://www.nouraerakat.com/)

Hebh Jamal: Journalist in Germany. IG and Twitter: @hebh_jamal

Ghada Sasa: PhD candidate in International Relations, green colonialism, and Islam in Canada. Twitter: @sasa_ghada | IG: @ghadasasa48

Taleed El Sabawi: Assistant professor of law and researcher in public health. Twitter: @el_sabawi | IG

Lexi Alexander: Filmmaker and activist. Twitter: @LexiAlex | IG: @lexialexander1

Mariam Barghouti: Writer, blogger, researcher, and journalist. Twitter: @MariamBarghouti | IG: @mariambarghouti

Rasha Abdulhadi: Queer poet, author and cultural organizer. Twitter: @rashaabdulhadi

Mohammed el-Kurd: Writer and activist from Jerusalem. IG: @mohammedelkurd | Twitter: @m7mdkurd

Ramy Abdu: Founder and Chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Twitter: @RamyAbdu

Subhi: Founder of The Palestine Academy website. IG: @sbeih.jpg |TikTok @iamsbeih | Twitter: @iamsbeih

Allies

Lowkey (Kareem Dennis): Rapper, activist, video and podcast host for MintPress. Twitter: @LowkeyOnline IG: @lowkeyonline

Francesca Albanese: UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories. Twitter: @FranceskAlbs

Sana Saeed: Journalist and media critic, host and senior producer at Al-Jazeera Plus. IG: @sanaface | Twitter: @SanaSaeed

Shailja Patel: Poet, playwright, activist, founding member of Kenyans For Peace, Truth and Justice. Twitter: @shailjapatel

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores: Researcher in curriculum studies, decolonial theory, social movements. Twitter: @Jairo_I_Funez

Jack Dodson: Journalist and Filmmaker. Twitter: @JackDodson IG: @jdodson4

Imani Barbarin: Writer, public speaker, and disability rights activist. IG: @crutches_and_spice | Twitter: @Imani_Barbarin | TikTok: @crutches_and_spice

Jewish Allies

Katie Halper: US comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. IG and Twitter: @kthalps

Amanda Gelender: Writer. Twitter: @agelender | (https://agelender.medium.com/)

Yoav Litvin: Jerusalem-born Writer and Photographer. IG and Twitter: @nookyelur | (yoavlitvin.com)

Alana Lentin: Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. Twitter: @alanalentin

Gideon Levy: anti-Zionist Israeli journalist and activist. Twitter: @gideonle

How You Can Help Palestine

How to be an Ally 101

URGENT‼️📢: Global Strike Guide

If any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it's fixed.

"Knowledge is Israel's worst enemy. Awareness is Israel's most hated and feared foe. That's why Israel bombs a university: it wants to kill openness and determination to refuse living under injustice and racism."

— Dr. Refaat Alareer, (martyred Dec 6, 2023)

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Edit 1: took the first video down because turns out the animator is a terf and it links to her blog. Really sorry for any distress.

Edit 2: All recommended readings + Haymarket recommendations + essential decolonization texts have been uploaded to my linked gdrive. I will adding more periodically. Please do buy or check them out from the library if possible, but this post was made for and by poor and gatekept Global South bitches like me.

Some have complained about the memes being disrespectful. You're actually legally obligated to make fun of Israeli propaganda and Zionists. I don't make the rules.

Edit 3: "The river to the sea" does not mean the expulsion of Jews from Palestine. Believing that is genocide apologia.

Edit 4: Gazans have specifically asked us to put every effort into pushing for a ceasefire instead of donations. "Raising humanitarian aid" is a grift Western governments are pushing right now to deflect from the fact that they're sending billions to Israel to keep carpet bombing Gazans. As long as the blockades are still in place there will never be enough aid for two million people. (UPDATE: PLEASE DONATE to the Gazan's GoFundMe fundraisers to help them buy food and get out of Rafah into Egypt. E-SIMs, food and medical supplies are also essential. Please donate to the orgs linked in the How You Can Help. Go on the strikes. DO NOT STOP PROTESTING.)

Edit 5: Google drive link for academic books folder has been fixed. Also have added a ton of resources to all the other folders so please check them out.

Edit 6: Added interactive maps, Jadaliya channel, and masterlists of donation links and protest support and of factsheets.

The twitter accounts I reposted as it was given to me and I just now realized it had too many Israeli voices and almost none of the Palestinians I'm following, so it's being edited. Check back for more. I also removed sources like Jewish Voices of Peace and Breaking the Silence that do good work but have come under fair criticism from Palestinians.

Edit 7: Complete reformatting

Edit 8: Complete revamping of the social media section. It now reflects my own following list.

Edit 9: removed some more problematic people from the allies list. Remember that the 2SS is a grift that's used to normalize violence and occupation, kids. Supporting the one-state solution is lowest possible bar for allyship. It's "Free Palestine" not "Free half of Palestine and hope Israel doesn't go right back to killing them".

Edit 10: added The Palestine Directory + Al Jazeera documentary + Addameer. This "100 links per post" thing sucks.

Edit 11: more documentaries and films

Edit 12: reformatted reading list

Edit 13: had to remove @palipunk's masterlist to add another podcast. It's their pinned post and has more resources Palestinian culture and crafts if you want to check it out

#free palestine #palestine resources #palestine reading list #decolonization #israel palestine conflict #israel palestine war #british empire #american imperialism #apartheid #social justice #middle east history #MENA #arab history #anti zionism #palestinian art #palestinian history #palestinian culture #palestinian genocide #al nakba #ethnic cleansing #war crimes #racism #imperialism #colonialism #british colonialism #knee of huss #ask to tag #Youtube

[booksofdelight]

Goodreads 40 Best Books of the 2020’s

Find out Goodread’s 40 best books of the 2020’s!

Year four of the 2020’s and we aleeady have a big enough list to list the best books of the decade. And while it still may be early, we will be looking at Goodreads 40 best books of the 2020’s. Keep reading to find out which books made their list! Yes, we know, this list is early as we aren’t even halfway in. But the shher amount of amazing books makes this the perfect time to make this list.…

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#2020s #Book Recommendations #books #featured #Fiction #list #news #reading

[farchanter]

Jeffrey Lewis: The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States

It is impossible to grasp the reasons for the breakdown of the Trump administration's executive functions without understanding both the process that was in place to provide the president with information and the unusual features of its implementation that arose from the fact that, as the crisis unfolded, the president was not in Washington, but in Palm Beach.

An epistolary novel taking the shape of an official government report, The 2020 Commission Report states the end of the story right on the cover: in March 2020, a seemingly minor incident spirals into a full-blown nuclear war.

It would have been tempting, maybe even easy, to predict that a nuclear war involving the Trump administration would have been caused by his temper. He would have been pushed just a little too far, or he would have pushed someone else.

Instead, Lewis proposes something that feels more tangible, and therefore much more frightening: at the single most harrowing moment in the nation's history— the moment when it most needs a steady executive hand— Trump is either not present or (when he is), completely inept.

Lewis does an effective job laying out the logical steps that lead us from "minor military demonstration" to "millions dead". The 2020 Commission Report is, therefore, well-executed.

But by setting the action of his 2018 book in March of 2020 and then having the fiction report released this year, 2023, Lewis ensures that his work will best be remembered for its prescience. Sure, maybe some of the details aren't quite right, but Lewis foretells quite well how Trump's inadequacies as a leader imperiled us from March 2020 to January of 2021.

#completion list #books #completed #todo #review #the 2020 commission report on the north korean nuclear attacks against the united states #jeffrey lewis #the 2020 commission report #alt history

[kpgimpactor]

Whenever I finish a (usually older) book I like to look it up to see if I missed any themes/minor plot points and to see what the general reception was upon first publishing, notable movie versions etc etc.

Rebecca by du Maurier was such a good book as far as 1938 gothics go and so interesting to read about. The most famous movie adaption was Hitchcock’s award winning film in 1940. I know there’s been some buzz on the Hays Codes on here so it was very interesting to read that Hitchcock had to change a large character point due to Hollywood morality codes. (I don’t think it’s a plot point as the actual plot course didn’t seem to change that much. But it was definitely a character altering point).

This may be a no-brainer statement but I guess I hadn’t really thought about book adaptations in terms of Hays Code era movies. The violence in the book is fine, just not on screen etc. Were book fans disappointed in a similar way book fans get disappointed now when movie adaptations feel too different or was it something to be expected? Much to think about.

#do I tag?? spoilers?? for a book published in 1938 #regardless she had me in the first half!! #I suspected murder but the motives I thought I had pinned were wrong #I would have atttte this book up if told to write a book analysis on it in the 10th grade #there’s a 2020 Netflix movie…not rushing to watch it but maybe it’ll go on the watch list for a rainy afternoon etc

[annabelle--cane]

I should start offering my services for hire to not-very-online creators whose works suddenly pick up big transformative fandoms. no, don't answer that headcanon question with a definitive yes or no, keep it in the "it's not in the text so who knows" zone. here's a list of loaded terms that people will use to try and bait you into shipping discourse without your knowledge. no yeah, that's a perfectly harmless personal taste thing but if you share it publicly people will think you're calling for book burning. there's actually no need to respond to this one critique, a very similar discourse was settled in a 47k note post about avatar: the last airbender in november 2020, the argument will inevitably go the same way.

#marina marvels at life

[ineffableidiotsbigbang]

Writing advice/resources links

floorplan + 3d of aziraphale's bookshop, + list of aziraphale's books (2020)

On using epithets

Flowchart of when to use epithets

Filter words

Writing dialogue

Punctuating dialogue

Using "said"

Varying sentence length

Guide to naming conventions in different cultures

Resources for describing physical things in great detail

Guide to adding "cool things" to AO3 posts, eg. footnotes, custom dividers

Writing chronic pain

Dialogue tips

Timeline of what foods were available when

Historical fashion references

Improving plot

Communicating time passing

When to use an apostrophe

Who vs whom

Using a semicolon

Describing characters

Gestures and body language

Reverse dictionary

Personality traits

Body language

Commonly mispelled words

Ending sentences

Show, don't tell

Punctuation grammar (another)

Etymology dictionary (often including date of first recorded use)

See when words first appeared in books

origins of idioms

Stanford model of the Roman world

Purchasing power / conversions dating back as early as 1207

YouTube channel dedicated to historical clothing

Military history/weaponry combat [youtube channel]

Medieval armour and weaponry [youtube channel]

resources on the napoleonic wars

life in the regency era

wide variety of info on victorian england

ancient egypt

medieval studies

search engine for historical maps

Youtube channel on various history things

massive resource list for historical fiction

slang timeline

historical theasaurus

developing minor characters

multiple bible translations from different eras/languages

thesauruses & similar (thank you @actual-changeling!) one two three four + grammar checker

#good omens #writing advice #resources #fanfiction #writing #ao3

[jamiesansible]

I’m sure everyone remembers the article from 2020 where researches found three-ply cordage made by Neanderthals.^

But did you know that in the supplemental material for the article, it mentions that pine needles can be made into textiles?^^ As someone who works with textiles myself, I had come across pine needles as a dye stuff, but not as a fibre.

The source is listed as "L’acquisition des matières textiles d’origine végétale en Préhistoire" by Fabinne Médard. It talks about how other fibres, including brambles and broom could have been used prehistorically for a similar purpose, as well as flax. However, it contains only one metion of pine needles.

“Les aiguilles du pin sylvestre (Pinus sylvestris L.) fournissaient, après rouissage, une matière textile appelée « laine des forêts » qui remplaçait la ouate et l’étoupe dont on faisait également des tissus (Mathieu [1858] 1897)" * The needles of the Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) provided, after retting, a textile material called “forest wool” which replaced wadding and tow from which fabrics were also made.

So Scots pine needles were processed, spun and woven, or simply used directly after processing, potentially prehistorically.

If you follow the source for the quote above, it takes you to a book from 1860 called Flore forestière; description et histoire des végétaux ligneux qui croissent spontanément en France et des essences importantes de l'Algérie. It says:

“On fabrique depuis quelques années, avec les faisceaux fibreux, allongés, et tenaces des aiguilles, une espèce de drap grossier.” ** For several years, we have been making a kind of coarse cloth using the fibrous, elongated and stiff bundles of the needles.

So this processing of pine needles was also happening in the 1800s.

Another souce from the 1840s describes the texture of forest wool as resembling "...horsehair, and has been used for stuffing mattresses"** and that an industry sprung up in Humboldtsau, near Breslau for processing it. Manufacturies for forest wool then spread to Sweden, Holland and France, which may explain the mention in the 1860 Flore forestière.

Despite looking a bit more, but couldn't find much else on the subject expect a recent masters thesis in German (which I couldn't access) and an article on the designer Tamara Orjola.

Orjola's work investigates the modern use of pine needle fabric, showing there is still interest in it. She says:

"Forest Wool began with research on the forgotten value of plants. Valuable local materials and techniques are left behind due to the unwillingness of mass-production to adopt more sustainable practices. In the old days the pine tree was used as food, remedies, to build homes and furniture and for many other purposes. Nowadays, it is only valuable for its timber." ***

I find the line from prehistory to now facinating - that people have looked to something as mundane as a pine needle to spin, especially as researchers are discovering a lot of what they thought was linen fabric is actually ramie (from nettles).

As far as I can tell, only Pinus sylvestris L. and one other variety was used. I am not sure what makes that tree more suitable than other pine trees, or if it was simply a question of availability. In terms of processing, the answer as far as I can tell is retting, presumably followed by scutching and hackling - similar to how flax is processed. However I have not done that myself and cannot speak to the specifics.

It would be something intresting to try though.

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^ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61839-w#MOESM1

^^ https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-020-61839-w/MediaObjects/41598_2020_61839_MOESM1_ESM.pdf

* https://journals.openedition.org/nda/602

** https://www.proquest.com/openview/276605d708970d416923b94e8856d20b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41445

*** https://lampoonmagazine.com/article/2021/05/15/recycled-wood-pine-needles-byproduct/

#fabric #history #i was consumed by the spirit of academia and could not stop reading french articles #please excuse the use of Google translate #my French is okay but not academic article good #it’s just a super interesting topic #the variety of plant fibres used for textiles is always larger than I think