مونيكا تيريذا

i love a good slow burn

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I don't know how to live among people who are not consumed and disgusted by genocide

they say retrogrades are times when exes could return but i have learned my lessons so none of them come back but what about someone whom i never dated hmm 🧐

Sign up for Stop Cop Cities Everywhere, August 26th on zoom. To benefit the Sameer Project’s North Gaza campaign!

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Urgent Fundraising for The Sameer Project As many journalists in Gaza are now experiencing serious health problems due to the extended campaign of forced starvation, it is more important than ever for all of us to keep speaking about the unsp...

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My goodness. Journalists having to call in saying they’re too hungry to work. This isn’t dystopia: this is the reality Palestinians in Gaza live in. Meanwhile their Western counterparts are still describing hospitals in Gaza as “Hamas run”.

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water **With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

Things are unimaginably bad. The Sameer Project's South Gaza campaign operation is under intense crisis. They're trying to find any food they can to help people in serious need. If you can, please donate! The situation is getting worse every day.
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In her epic essay collection, MISBEHAVING AT THE CROSSROADS, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers “leaps into the breach” between recorded history and the lives it has erased.

Normalization of excess. Terror and torture create their own world, complete with a cartography of systematic and physically violent sub-ordination. As the National Commission on the Disappeared states, "The cases highlighted in the report were not due to any 'excesses, because no such thing existed, if by 'excess' we mean isolated incidents which transgress a norm. The system of repression itself, and its planning and execution, was the greatest 'excess' —transgression was common and widespread. The dreadful 'excesses' themselves were the norm" (ibid.: 10). Brought blindfolded and beaten into a self-enclosed world closed off from any contact with relatives, friends, or lawyers, detainees lost their names and were assigned a number that had its own place within the general bureaucratic apparatus of green cards, coding schemes, and ordinary errors and mishaps. A number that became the person. El I

reading the chapter in Ghostly Matters about the desaparacidos of the Argentine dirty war feels different now, as in it feels like reading the news through a terrible mirror

i wrote a poem today. are all poems about absence?

Another way out: The U.S. sacrifices children everywhere We should not expect a country that’s proud about its campaigns of terror against children to be repentant now

So much terror threatens young people's futures. The call for youth liberation should be loud, given that the possibility of a good life is being put at risk by dwindling resources, state violence, and genocide. I wrote about this for @prismreports.org
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Black people can always hear you when you share your sadistic delight at southerners perishing in natural disasters because the states are red, that's where most Black Americans are.

recognize that "colleagues" that enable and defer to agents of mass suffering are themselves agents of mass suffering.

the city that loves the bomb I was in high school when Oklahoma City was bombed

Today’s Featured Poem:

“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social

Read here:
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im such a romantic i love when friends send me things they think are beautiful like just an audio of birds singing

Going to start taking myself on little writing residencies, and by "residencies," I mean "going to my friends' cities to explore and have coffee and little treats and also doing some writing while I happen to be there."

book of provocations is on this list

i love gifting books to people i love

hi! i wrote this!

Some people might think that they're offering an outlet for others' emotions through their reflexive relationship to content creation regarding disturbing and often unprecedented world events, when in fact, they're helping them detach further. Every happening is not simply an opportunity to post.

Something is deeply wrong if your first thought about crises, war, and potential mass casualty events is opportunistic content creation. There should at least be some measurable distance between the time it takes to process something and the time you decide to react for engagement's sake.

The sameer project recently lost their core organiser in gaza. He was martyred and the entire team has been mourning him these past fews days. It's been so heartbreaking tbh the situation gets worse every damn day

Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology - Allegra Lab Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work  “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison with far too much

"Citing creative work well—citing it with care—requires a relational approach. To name a creative piece is not enough. We must let it speak inside our work, shift our tone, fracture our arguments, delay our conclusions." #CreativeAnthropology allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-f...