Recent Reads #52 | Complicated queerness + supporting Palestinian authors

[@gracestowe6713]

Thanks for supporting Palestinian authors! I just spotted You Exist Too Much in my school library, so I'll have to check it out.

[@salamand3r__]

Thank you for showing support to Palestinian authors. Respect! 🇵🇸

[@ShaelinWrites]

I hope that the world will soon see a free Palestine ❤️

[@thescarydiaries]

Thank you for supporting Palestinian voices Shaelin, I love your videos❤

[@ShaelinWrites]

❤❤❤

[@Barjavelle131]

Omg I've just read You know where your body is buried and YUM so good you create the BEST characters and the BEST relationships you are my writing god

[@tharo4390]

"Son of Hamas" by Mosab Hassan Yousef is another GREAT Palestinian book to read!

[@msherif428]

that worthless traitor? no thanks!

[@misssoso5859]

Lol, did you just recommend a Zionist, Islamophobic book? Are you braindead?

[@Mtalin823]

Lol, nice try

[@Mtalin823]

I can recommended so many Jewish and Israeli authors and thinkers who have written about the horrors of the occupation, but Israelis only have one weirdo Palestinian on their side! Just take a second to think why is it that you have to scrap the bottom of the barrel to find a single Palestinian voice in support of your government when it seems like every other day, famous Jewish people are coming out in opposition to the occupation!

[@passantamreltarek9946]

Amazing reviews as always!! I also highly recommend the poetry collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by the Palestinian poet, Mosab Abu-Toha. He just fled Gaza during the ongoing genocide and is now teaching poetry at my uni, and he is genuinely one of the most beautiful-hearted people I have ever met in my life. His poems use such honest and raw prose so gorgeously to paint a very thorough and lasting landscape of his life in Gaza while somehow maintaing playful and hopeful undertones, it left me in tears. It's genuinely a must read!!

[@ShaelinWrites]

I will definitely pick up some of his poetry!!

[@yesmeaneh]

OMGGGG the Palestinian representation ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@MissAllWednesday]

Thank you so much for supporting Palestine. ❤ While I'm not Palestinian myself, my husband is. And he has family in Gaza. These past five months have been harrowing for us trying to contact extended family, just to figure out if they're alive. For every 100 calls we try to make 1 goes through and some weeks are even worse than that with no communication at all. Often times we can only look at their Facebook profiles throughout the days just to hope that the green light flickers to prove that they're even alive. There have been days I cannot sleep and have nightmares, and my husband has what I can only describe as survivor's guilt. Some days I have to force him to eat. Its not post-traumatic stress since its present. Two months into the carpet bombing, we recieved word that 25 members of his extended family were murdered in a bombstrike at night. A whole family lineage gone in an instant (from great-great grandparents, grandparents, their children and their children's children), it is so tragic. For people to say that there isn't a genocide happening, I don't know what to say to you. You are not human. Shame on you.

[@ShaelinWrites]

Losing your entire family is grief no person should ever have to go through. This genocide is one of the most purely evil things I've ever seen, and I can't imagine what it's like for your husband or anyone Palestinian. My heart is with you❤

[@BlackXSunlight]

Omg these sounds soooo good. My life has been so chaotic the past month, I'm behind on. my January and February reads but here I go adding more to the TBR list 😭

[@biancast.2420]

I also really enjoyed sambac beneath unlikely skies, the skin and its girl, and you exist too much! Another palestinian book I read recently and really enjoyed is "palestinian walks" by raja shehadeh. It's a memoir/essay book that is still very engaging despite being nonfic. And if you're also interested in very comprehensive nonfic books about the history of palestine and the genocide, I recommend "the hundred years' war on palestine" by palestinian author rashid khalidi and "the ethnic cleansing of palestine" by ilan pappe.

[@veganphilosopher1975]

Shaelin, what are some of your favorite books? Big fan of you!

[@ShaelinWrites]

I have a whole shelf of favourites on my goodreads!

[@lylahh.2484]

Thank you! #FreePalestine

[@noammoriah5915]

Im queer and an Israeli. I can tell you that the 'genocide' is a complete lie. It is war and there is no question on who is the stronger opponent. But you must consider the fact that Gaza's forces have 134 Israeli civilians captive in Gaza which is unacceptable and they must be freed! For Israel's sake as well as the Palestinians. Thank you for reading this till the end.

[@noammoriah5915]

Im here and open to discussion

[@andrev5992]

@@noammoriah5915According to the language in your comment, you are not “open to discussion.”

[@noammoriah5915]

@@andrev5992 try me

[@tharo4390]

Hey neshamah, hope you're safe and dealing as best you can!

[@a-yam943]

Israel has rejected a ceasefire on MULTIPLE occasions. They’re bombing civilian houses and safe zones as well as targeting hospitals. (If Hamas was REALLY stationed in a hospital (which is proven that they weren’t), Israel would not be bombing civilian houses, nor the oldest mosques and places of education. This is not a war. This is a genocide and an ethnic cleansing. Palestinians are being massacred for wanting to live in THEIR homeland, which has been THEIR homeland since before Jesus Christ was born. (By the way, Jesus was a Jewish Palestinian).This is predating 1948 by over a thousand years. There is no option for “seeing both sides” while thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians and children (INFANTS!) are being massacred on a daily basis. Shame on you.

[@AdamFishkin]

Talking about the craft is, of course, always what I appreciate from you. Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a great title and it somewhat surprises me it wasn't taken beforehand. Tauhou! Yes, we love an experimental novel! Dang ...... why can't someone mail ME mushrooms? Sambath Beneath Unlikely Skies sounds vaguely like a Palestinian version of The Florida Project: existing as a child in an out-of-the-way, dangerous place. Emphasis on "vaguely" because obviously Florida is safer.

[@o_o-lj1ym]

Organ meats was great. She slayed that. Slay-ming Chang

[@ShaelinWrites]

she never misses

[@bobsavage3317]

I haven't gotten around to much fiction this year, but I did get a chance to read The Constant Rabbit, by Jasper Fforde, which I enjoyed.

[@trinity3272]

Have you read pod? It was in the womens prize actually I think it won

[@prairiebutch]

glad you loved Everyone in This Room and Mrs S!! some of my top lesbian reads they make me feel SO seen (shocking, unprecedented comment from KZbin commenter dykejeans)

[@ShaelinWrites]

Everyone in This Room was the *realest* thing I've ever read and Mrs S was the butch lesbian novel I have been craving

[@SymonJustWatch]

First comment ❤❤❤

[@Earthstar444]

What are your new tattoos?

[@writethepath8354]

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko is a beautiful read

[@Saso0123o]

الصوت منخفض

[@Saso0123o]

رائع أنت مثقفة وجميلة

[@african_chris]

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[@miiixxx]

Love you Shaelin!!! Thank you!! ❤