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Haramacy

Haramacy is a “love letter to the diaspora”(Sultan, 2022) containing stories and essays from the Middle Eastern and South Asian diaspora. Curated by Zahed Sultan, British Kuwaiti-Indian multimedia artist who advocates for connection and representation. Sultan is most well known for his live stage music productions and his same titled project “Haramacy” which aims to create a community for those voices that have not been represented in the media. 

One of the chapters I liked the most is “Gary is not my Name” by Dhruva Balram. In this chapter, Balram narrates his experiences of moving to Canada from India at a young age and the struggles of not feeling like he belongs in the respective countries. The title of the chapter is named after a circumstance where his English teacher could not be bothered to learn his name so he designated him a typical English name. 

In order to feel accepted by his peers he woul exaggerate stories of India. Balram created a hyperreality (Baudrillard,1981), where he couldn’t separate fiction from real events to comfort himself from feeling othered. The feelings of hopelessness and loneliness started to disappear as he discovered artists who represented what life was like being torn between two cultures, like HateCopy. 

Balram emphasises in this chapter that individuals should reclaim their heritage and be proud. Diasporic identities are “forced to remedy curiosity before remediating their own” (Chew-Bose, 2017) when they are asked questions about their identity. The feeling of restlessness for the next generation can be soothed by the creative industry producing authentic work about their heritage and diaspora. 

Baudrillard, J, 1981, Simulacra and Simulation, Semiotext

Sultan, Z, 2022 Haramacy, Unbound 

Chew-Bose, D, 2017, Too Much and Not in the Mood: Essays, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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need to write a disco elysium fic because last night i had a dream from kim's perspective and vividly remember hearing one of the skills say "you aren't in love, you're in revachol"

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Believing in fate a lil more each day, bcs. as much as my life sucks the universe always send a guardian angel to help me get out of something or just simply vent 😭 Grateful.

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"everybody experiences that" says mother who has the same symptom of the same mental illness

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when Rory Gilmore said, "I live in two worlds, one is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, and danced at the Jellicoe Ball. I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm a citizen of Stars Hollow, the most magical place on Earth. I've wrestled with the likes of Kirk, danced with Miss Patty, and sang with the town troubadour. I've lived on a street with the most colorful characters you will ever find. Yes, I have many friends, but my biggest fear is that I'll turn out like one of those Tana French novels, where nothing is ever really resolved and everyone just goes on living their messed-up lives. So I've learned to settle. Settle for the fact that I'll never know what happened to the Romanovs. Settle for the fact that if I ever have kids, they won't know what it's like to grow up with a father. Settle for the fact that my best friend is a woman who's been dead for 40 years. Settle for the fact that I've spent the last 16 years watching backup dancers become stars and pop stars become drug addicts. And I've learned to settle for a life that will never be half as extraordinary as the one I've imagined." It was a beautiful and memorable speech! 💌

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Me 🤝🏻 WHEN WORLD COLLIDE: A Zayn Malik Fanfic

Nobody understands the bond between a girl and the mediocre book she read when she was 13 years old.

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“In losing our voice something in us dies.”

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

Elif Shafak

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fuck "girl lunch" fuck "girl math" a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.

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Nostos is a thematic narrative used in Ancient Greek literature, in which a hero [as Odysseus] returns home by sea. A return weaved by algos, a thread of pain longing for an unreachable past.

Nostos (return) + Algos (suffering) =Nostalgia

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The older I get, the more I understand that it's okay to live a life others don't understand.

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If it were a crime to be a hopeless romantic, I'd be the first convicted of it. ❤️‍🩹

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Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist” from Intentions (1891)

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Iris will be playing while we dance the first dance at our wedding

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Iris Cover by Phoebe Bridgers x Maggie Rogers

u ever just here a song and go "aw man i wish i could inject this shit into my fucking bloodstream" cuz im feeling that rn

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Iris by the goo goo dolls is THE queerest song to ever be considered ‘technically not queer.’