Palestine and the Power of Language
“The obfuscation of responsibility is facilitated by a structure often overlooked since grade school: grammar. At this moment, grammar has the indelible power to become a tool of the oppressor, with the passive voice the most relied-upon weapon of all.”
Selected WritingThe Ferocious Capacity to Love: HUNA Book Review — Everything Is Political – Fall 2026
Every Woman Bunny White Wanted To Be Kept Dying — Autostraddle – Spring 2025
How Am I Supposed To Feel About the Ceasefire? — Autostraddle – Winter 2025
Only Palestine Can Save America From Fascism — Autostraddle – Fall 2024
Why I Am Creating an Archive for Palestine — The Atlantic – Spring 2024
MuslimFoodies Share the Eid Foods That Taste Like Home — Food & Wine – Spring 2024
Palestine and the Power of Language — TIME Magazine – Winter 2024
It’s ‘Not Just a Middle Eastern Restaurant.’ It’s Palestinian — Bon Appétit – Winter 2024
How I Got Okay with Punching God in the Face — Cosmopolitan Magazine – Winter 2024
I Don’t Look Away, I Can’t Look Away — Apogee Journal – Fall 2023
When I Close My Eyes: A Prayer for Gaza — The Offing Magazine – Fall 2023
We Were There — excerpt read at Sewanee Writers’ Conference – Summer 2023
Brown Like Mud — Carve Magazine, Print – 2022
‘Paycheck Fairness’ for Women at Last? —The Daily Clout – 2019
Protect our People or our Guns? — The Daily Clout – 2019
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