summer farah

I luv the sealey challenge bc I always have too many books I haven't read & I luv seeing what other people are reading 🥺

Justice for Leqaa Kordia We’re raising urgent funds to help free Leqaa Kordia — a kind, peaceful Palestinian woman who’s been unjustly detained by ICE despite having a pending green card. She is a daughter, a caregiver to her...

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Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser All funds collected through this page will be sent to The Sameer Project, a donations-based initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. You can ...

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i be, but i ain't by aziza barnes

we have no conception of bastard

#SEALEYCHALLENGE day 6: revisited a beloved collection, thinking so much of aziza & all of the reverberations of their work + influence on people I love, people I am in awe of.

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COLD THIEF PLACE BY ESTHER LIN

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES

okay here's my actual day 5 of the #sealeychallenge! committing to this challenge to fulfill the pledges to the sameer project inshallah #endthegenocideingaza

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LET THE MOON WOBBLE BY ALLY ANG

MORE AMERICANS BELIEVE THEY'VE SEEN A GHOST THAN A TRANS PERSON

early morning catch up for the #sealeychallenge with a beloved forthcoming book, how lucky are we to have 5am to read #endthegenocideingaza

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CONSPIRACY THEORIES by SAMIA SALIBA

XO

almost forgot to post for #sealeychallenge! Forgive me for the images from Instagram but I could not simply attempt to retake these. spent time w a book by one of my besties for her birthday 💗
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So prolific 🥺

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

The mutual aid team we support recently got flour for ALL the displaced families they serve, plus some. Is that hopeless? They won’t stop work, constantly finding ways to help neighbors.

Do the same. Give/find their link here. 3920/4100 by end of Sunday: chuffed.org/project/hope...

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Threesome in the Last Totoya Celica & other poems by m. mick powell

The poem KILL YOUR RAPIST

really loved my day 2 #sealeychallenge book, feeling even more eager to finish the month & fulfill the pledges to the sameer project folks have pitched in on my behalf #endthegenocideingaza

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PALESTINIAN by Ibrahim Nasrallah, translated by Huda J. Fakhreddine

An excerpt of Mary of Gaza

this August I'm committing to read 31 books of poetry for the #sealeychallenge; pledge to sponsor my challenge through donations to the sameer project (link below) & mobilize each day to #EndtheGenocideinGaza

Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week Series logo appears at the top of the graphic. With the bold text underneath, it reads “Split This Rock Poem of the Week Presents A Poetry Playlist.” Below, a black rectangle with rounded corners and a red shadow contains bold white text with the playlist’s title “Poetry & Shelter” with red rewind, play, and fast forward icons. Behind the rectangle, there are thin concentric geometric lines which peek out at the top and bottom. A URL to Split This Rock’s website is in the lower right-hand corner: splitthisrock.org.

This week, Split This Rock offers a Poetry & Shelter Playlist as part of this year’s Poetry Coalition themed programming. These 12 poems curated from The Quarry explore the power of our imaginations to hold one another in tenderness, care, and generosity. Tune in: bit.ly/45cXLzT

#PoetryAndShelter

Every diaspora Palestinian I know has been living with survivor’s guilt for 655 days. Guilt & shame for every glass of water, every bite of food, every shower, every daily annoyance, every moment of joy, every booboo we can kiss better, every sleep in our own beds. Our people are being slaughtered.

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”.

Will share!!!

Instead of Depression by Andrea Gibson who sadly passed away today... "try calling it hibernation. Imagine the darkness is a cave in which you will be nurtured by doing absolutely nothing. Hibernating animals don’t even dream. It’s okay if you can’t imagine Spring. Sleep through the alarm of the world. Name your hopelessness a quiet hollow, a place you go to heal, a den you dug, Sweetheart, instead of a grave."

thank you, Andrea 💔

“What We Lose is Synonymous with Death”: A Conversation with Farah Ghafoor Read Summer Farah's interview "'What We Lose is Synonymous with Death': A Conversation with Farah Ghafoor in Issue 69: Spring 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in…

In Issue 69, Summer Farah interviews Farah Ghafoor and they discuss the risks of speaking up, the role of a poet, and how "the best things in life are a little bit hard": ex-puritan.ca/what-we-lose...

putting together lists of folks to send digital review copies of my book to !!! let me know if you're interested in checking it out for review / interview / otherwise... will probably be available in september

Alien Enemies | Brandon Shimoda The torturers have been revising, the gestapos have been busy, and the prisons have been full for generations.

from the brilliant, incisive Brandon Shimoda:
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As terrified as America is of the aliens & enemies it has invented to defer dealing with its own deterioration, it is more terrified of the people, in their actuality & essence, on whom they have forced their inventions.