ayesha habib 🇵🇸
@ayeshajenna
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journalist | words in @globeandmail @thenarwhalca @Maisonneuvemag | [email protected]
Toronto, Ontario
Joined December 2019
‘Tilda was always an anxious woman. Her ex-husband once said she made the air static-y, like the sound of a radio between two stations—as if her nerves snatched the air around her body and created a vacuum of panic everywhere she went.’ - an except of my short story Tilda
Don't miss @ayeshajenna's wonderful story "Tilda" in Issue 33! Tilda had succumbed to eating Harold’s old love letters to his dead wife. Hunched over naked in the closet, she gnawed on ink and memory ... https://t.co/kyhSUltWZ8
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After racist attacks on social media, Somali Americans are parodying pro-Israel narratives – joking that Minnesota was promised to them “3,000 years ago.”
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The Hind Rajab Foundation announces it has submitted a 120 page filing to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, revealing the names of 24 Israeli soldiers implicated in the killing of Palestinian child Hind Rajab, six members of her family, along with two
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a truly unthinkable amount of strength and resilience. may palestinians see freedom and justice in this lifetime and every other
As the ceasefire took effect, Palestinians in Gaza are trying to restore the bare essentials of a decent life, clearing rubble and rebuilding whatever they can amid the devastation.
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Today, over 1000 orphans at the Al-Wafa Orphan Village in Gaza graduated school. They were full of emotion as there were no parents to attend the ceremony because Israel killed them. Thank you the wonderful adults that still take the time during genocide to teach children and
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THREAD: You know what the most unhinged comment we get all the time on our content is? “Just release the hostages.” Let’s talk about that.
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I looked into how American-funded evangelical groups have influenced anti-gay sentiment and legislation in Uganda and Africa as a whole, as part of a campaign to entrench far-right values in international law. Read the article here: https://t.co/2AzEqv6jQg
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The East African country has one of the world’s most extreme anti-gay laws. Steven Kabuye nearly paid with his life.
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There is no one size fits all approach to grief. But is diagnosing and medicating extreme grief the right approach? I looked into it for @thewalrus:
Some people don’t want to lose their grief; others would do anything to ease it quickly—even by taking a pill. Journalist @ayeshajenna investigates:
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not even all the Palestinians killed since the Nakba but just in the last 18 months. in tiny font and in 2 columns. the scale of this genocide is unfathomable.
‼️ HAPPENING NOW IN D.C., A massive banner has been unveiled with the names of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023.
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The health ministry has released a 1,516–page document listing the names of over 50,000 Palestinians confirmed killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023. There are a total of 474 pages listing 15,600+ children’s names. The first 27 pages the age is listed as 0 — children under 1 year old
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"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against . many people precluded from the protections of the law"
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If I die, I am not a number, I am a planet in itself, I have dreams and ambitions that I wanted to achieve. Don't forget me in your prayers and keep talking about me
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Every person or child martyred is a universe extinguished. Every martyr was someone’s entire world. The heaviness of these moments are unbearable and incomprehensible. For the genocide in Gaza to continue while the world watches, feels like the end of the world as we know it.
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Nothing to see here, just a 49-page UN report documenting Israel's "genocidal acts" in Gaza and its systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. https://t.co/SpEM8opnjn
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