@narthews
• black nonbinary lesbian • part time poet, full time pain in the ass • author of BETTER HANDS 🌷 out 04/25 • periplus + wild seeds '22, anaphora + grubstreet '23, roots. wounds. words. '24 • nailahwritesnovels.com | they/them
'Urgent Appeal:
I am a father of 5 kids,& my wife suffers from heart valve prolapse. I urgently need $300 for surgery to remove shrapnel from my back & hand after being injured by a quadcopter drone in Gaza.
Please contribute urgently🥹🥹
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@mommunism.bsky.social'
Jamal's parents are desperate for help, & donations are v slow. Jamal has asthma and diabetes, & is in critical condition. He desperately needs treatment, & his family can't afford it. They need your help, & are being blocked by both the admin & users of the site. Please help them survive genocide:
I think people pointed out years ago that genAI would be weaponized by governments and used to justify war crimes, because once you outsource mass civilian death to a machine, you can just say the machine made a mistake. Israel & the US have been bombing children non-stop for 2+ years.
Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to starvation, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again.
Please help Ahmed's family survive Israel's genocide. He's just 17, and has to support his starving, sick family with no income:
@narthews.bsky.social
Please repost or donate 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏
Photos of Bara'a's lost babies
Bara'a with her son
I am Bara'a,from Gaza,agrieving mother.😭
I lost Masa and Maha...my heart was stolen.💔
Now Iam all for Ibrahim, the only one left.
We live in a tent;I strive for his safety.
Stop the fear...my son needs a life.🙏🫂
We are not numbers, we are mothers, and our pain is unforgettable😔
tinyurl.com/baraaZ2
AZEALIA BANKS V @iiwasinthee212 X.com I got paid lol. Its not 7k a post but i def get paid for every Israel mention. Even the troll posts are paid.... * The General • @GeneralMCNews • 22h BREAKING: Israeli officials allegedly hired social media influencers for $7,000 per post, failed to pay them, and are now facing lawsuits totaling millions of dollars over unpaid invoices. 8:40 PM • 04.03.26 • 2,5M Views
I gotta say if you hire Azealia Banks to do something for you and not know she’s also gonna do this… well…
"this one wasn’t made by god or xir angels / she was spat out / [...] spluttered up / when that showgirl who bore her / gave up used panties for lent"
from "Skullduggery" ☠️ now live in Bayou Magazine's Issue 80!
"twelve months heavy she gnawed on roots and / woven charms to quicken you for living. / [...] tell me how / she grabbed you by the shoulders and pulled you / blue faced screaming / from her womb, how she polished you clean / with precious handfuls of drinking water"
from "negrita" 🖤
"tell me about ... the house yellow as your sisters children / that stood proud in the lord's blond spot, and red clay earth / starved of wetness, and the parched mouths of whitemen vultures / watching calves curve for the knee, bending brown hands into the drinking water"
from "negrita" 🖤
BETTER HANDS is about being queer, black, your mother's daughter, father's son, and the persistent desire to be and become more than either.
i'm nailah, a part time poet who writes for the world to come. this black history month, let these poems help reveal what you want that world to look like. 🖤
ok but what if the bath scene.... was outdoors? 👀
Black trans women are the most marginalized in our community — so yeah, watching one be sidelined or erased in the narrative feels painfully familiar.
If people actually care about protecting Black trans women instead of just erasing us, there are ALWAYS real ways to help. 🥺⬇️ x
*dreamy sigh* i love dinner rolls
whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could
This is a policy of genocide.
A handwritten letter from a child detained at Dilley center. It features a drawing of a house and a crying person’s head. Translated text reads: "We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people they won’t let us go out to the playgrounds and park and it’s very boring to do every day God touch the hearts of those at ICE let us out We are not criminals I want to go home."
While detained at the Dilley detention center, 13-year-old Gerson Lopéz Garcia wrote: “We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people … let us out we are not criminals I want to go home.”
➡️ Read more of the children's letters: https://propub.li/3OJUwLV
Shoutout to every writer out there writing the kind of books fascists keep trying to ban.
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."
*Just in the LAST WEEK*:
- Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them
- Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license
- Scouts agreed to ban trans kids
- Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids
- SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents
On Monday, March 16, activist Mike Africa Jr. and scholar Dr. Krystal Strong will join Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian to discuss the story of the MOVE organization, repairing histories of state violence, and the “On a MOVE” curriculum project in Philadelphia [.]
People all over the world treat hospitality as sacred while this damn place CHOOSES to torture the strangers among us.
It is all so deeply evil and I am so damn tired of hearing excuses made for those who support it all.
What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?
Blood on your hands.
The NYT is not responsible for the opinions it publishes.
US soldiers are not responsible for the deaths of the children it kills.
The Empire is not responsible for its actions.
The Empire's citizens are not responsible for supporting imperial institutions.
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The NYT is no angel.
The Onion point/counterpoint from 2003 which reads Share on Bluesky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Share on SMS Email this Page Point/Counterpoint This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
Real hits stay relevant.