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Excerpt from the linked article

An image of a green metallic part. Inscription: Turkoslavia Journal.

MIGJENI translated from Albanian by Genta Nishku
Reading Turkoslavia exchanges.uiowa.edu/nishku-migjeni

as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia

a relentless continuing

YouTube video by Memorie Cinematografiche Discussione sulla morte e sulla vita (da "Uccellacci e uccellini" di Pasolini, 1966)

🪶"È morto un ricco. Qui giace uno pieno di soldi: è morto il più ricco del camposanto. Pensa un po' che fregatura per lui! Beato il poveraccio che pochi hanno saputo che è morto. Scrivono: è morto uno, avanti un altro!"🪶

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7A0...

i simply watched an old acquaintance's insta story where he desperately screamed at people to vote for cuomo and save nyc from communism and then noticed he blocked me 😂😂😂 good to know it's not just boomers who are scared.

people coming out as white house lovers, weird af man. "sign of a larger problem" sure, buddy, but I can think of a few other more significant signs...

👍

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t. Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

one of the most unhinged people i knew in grad school is on a flotilla 🤔 😅

called it 🤷
#NobelPrize

Muin Bseiso, Descent into the Water

upper middle class writer (derogatory)

finale

the insular community of the same old "critics" always talking about the same old writers. boring!

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

YouTube video by New York Daily News Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content

for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive

enjoy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...

#OtD 22 Sep 1962 Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punched a fascist who had confronted him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. Pasolini's radical politics and openness about his homosexuality made him a frequent target of the right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9526...

this is the only way for people to connect under conditions of a total internet blackout. please give.

word of the day: kllapurit

Help support Husam Maarouf, a Palestinian poet, novelist, editor, and pubisher from Gaza, whose life and work are at grave risk. Husam is currently applying to the PAUSE Program in France, which provides urgent assistance to scholars and artists in exile. The program offers safety and the chance to continue creative work in collaboration with French institutions. A French university has already agreed to act as his host, offering the framework Husam needs to begin his residency. To make this possible, we need to raise €42,000. This sum will cover costs not fully financed by PAUSE and secure Husam and his family’s life in France for one year. It will make it possible to cover administrative procedures and visa fees, the relocation from Gaza to Paris including evacuation costs, as well as housing and daily living expenses for the first year.

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inventory @ the end of my first residency: three new friends, endless tea, all assumptions confirmed, inspiration only in unexpected places, new forms of anxiety, greater commitment to mocking the wealthy, 1 of 3 gifted joints, still unsmoked, a plot, no writers block, & protecting silence

😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

“Holocaust museum attacked for opposition to genocide” is fully through the looking glass

question. is gen X okay?

so little information is available on Evangjeli. again, the lack of interests from albanians re: political prisoners who don't fit their ideals of victimhood. Evangjeli was a communist, so can't feel bad etc. anyway.. he's a character in my novel 😇