@nadiashammas
Palestinian-American writer, artist, narrative designer, and award-winning wretch. She/They. GAMES: THIRSTY SUITORS, THE AXIS UNSEEN, THIS IS NORMAL: https://slothysunday.itch.io/this-is-normal COMICS: SQUIRE, WHERE BLACK STARS RISE, DEAD BY DAYLIGHT
If you see “Anna” out at GDC, especially at the park, you can get a peek at something we’ve been cooking, and also a lovely little souvenir with art by @valkwise.bsky.social.
Be careful tho. Invocations of fate or fortune invites varied results…blessing or otherwise is a matter of interpretation.
Toss a great person and writer a couple bucks while they recover from an injury!
Walking down a dark street in Kensington 😭😭😭 this winter’s been crazy
TW: medical stuff no blood
Please enjoy my hospital selfie, my insane cast, and my cool new cyberpunk leg
Oh gosh I hope you’re doing better now. I’m still about 2 weeks out from surgery so it’s still very new but at the same time it’s amazing how the body stitches itself back together.
Taking this as a sign from the world that I needed this time of forced hibernation to finally come back stronger in the spring and be around more.
*Last link I posted wasn’t working! But my ability to work has been limited and I will post my link if you can spare it-
venmo.com/u/Nadia-Sham...
Genuinely I try to be so careful but sometimes…it’s just unlucky. Def be careful after warm days followed by cold nights.
It was honestly life-altering in a lot of ways, from the harrowing experience having to wait for help in the ice for an hour before the ambulance finally came, to the incredible work of the Canadian hospital I am so grateful for, flawed as it may be. I have a long recovery ahead but glad to be here
Major life update but if I am late in responding to you it’s because last month I slipped on black ice and unfortunately broke/shattered my right leg in 4 places. I had reconstructive surgery and have been recovering at home, will hopefully be walking by the summer. Am slowly getting back to it ❤️🩹
Thank you Chris, as always, for your clear voice and support for Palestinians. You’re so right about the importance of hope from non-Palestinians.
I have a whole furious rant about some what some recent games’s proposed fantasies really are despite wearing a progressive coat
but if I speak I am in trouble
Genuinely I think she (very cleverly) went to Reddit with the belief that most people agree with her and Twitter is just overly loud. A lot of the replies fall into line perfectly so it’s like she has a whole thread to point to and be like “see?”
Are there actual Palestinians in the superman film or is it mostly a vague gesture, I have not seen it and cannot imagine it non-cynically
I guess I want to add for context that I used to be a fan actually. Some of those early videos were very personally helpful to me, which is part of why this hurts so much. However, I won’t waste energy on mourning this - ultimately, it’s not my fault that the creators I trusted weren’t who I thought
It confounds me because I truly believe our liberations are interconnected. As someone not in Gaza, what possible doom or resentment do you have a right to feel to this situation?
It is genuinely tragic to me that white marginalized individuals keep showing time and time again that they champion the rights of and can comprehend, in theory, the issues of almost every other intersectionality except when you’re Palestinian. I can see your humanity and you can’t see mine
If Palestinians or our issues make you uncomfortable you are simply a racist and don’t have space in any kind of “radical” politic. Go be Jake tapper or something.
“Palestinians being alive and upset at being annihilated are ruining the vibes…maybe if they died quietly I can go back to the good old days when I didn’t have to feel complicit or had. Maybe they deserve it for bothering me?” - ultimately the argument Contrapoints and her supporters are making here
Very much also understand how the absolute overwhelming majority of breadtube failing the Palestine morality test can create such feelings of betrayal and disappointment. At this point I’d argue we’re ready to leave the “breadtube” as a good moral signifier behind
I think that’s fair, love Shaun ❤️
She did WHAT
When you do CIA-levels of destroying revolutionary morale but with good lighting 💜✨ slay
Contrapoints comments on leftists picking up another “lost cause” in the case of Palestine is so disgusting that I’m starting to understand why she spotlights so many hours on the concept of leftist infighting…it’s all just aesthetic tone policing at the end of the day. Delete ur channel please
Thank you for speaking up on this. Very much needed in the sea of silent cowardice
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