Randa Jarrar
@randajarrar
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Palestinian author of 3 books. LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY, out now. Performer. American Book Award, Creative Capital Award
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i'm not ok. the ceaseless anti-palestinian hatred the murders the cruelty the pain
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This building is 100 years older than Notre Dame. Proceed to be outraged.
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When I was being attacked by my campus admins and police it was really really intriguing to find out that I could sue the university president personally for suppressing my speech. Do with that information what you will.
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Reporters Without Borders says Bayan Abusultan is missing after the Zionist army's massacre in Al Shifa Hospital.
#Gaza
: RSF alerts on the disappearance of 🇵🇸 journalist Bayan Abusultan, last seen on 19/03 among those sequestered in the raid on Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. RSF demands that the 🇮🇱 army immediately shed light on the disappearance of
@BayanPalestine
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It sucks when during a genocide a list of books on Palestine comes out and it includes your white rapist's book but not the book you, a Palestinian, wrote 15 years ago and published after 5 years of racist editors saying this story is not linear this isn't a typical arab family
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i know how Beyoncé can break the internet: by saying free palestine and directing her fans to flood their city halls
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CAIR IS HAMAS. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was created in 1994 by the US Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, which is Hamas. They are Hamas & they’ve always been Hamas. They will never not be Hamas. Their chapters & representatives in your local…
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A Gazan woman told me last night that we have to plan for building schools as soon as we are able to. I hope educators the world over will support Palestinians in this rebuilding.
Part of our resistance to the finality of genocide is for us to talk about tomorrow, plan for tomorrow, work on healing the wounds of our people. The aim of this war is that there would no Palestinian tomorrow. We own tomorrow. Tomorrow is a Palestinian day.
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i'm a palestinian. i know people are more important than buildings. but why is this my most viral tweet when I've been tweeting about Palestinians for 13 years? The irony is not lost on me. Spare me your lectures.
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I’ve discovered in my middle age that the important things are friends, good sex, good food, naps, speaking up, caring for oneself & not allowing a job to kill you, and creating the things you want to create. Make things for your people, whoever they are. Fuck everything else 💛
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these women are so so close to reaching their goal, and a friend is matching every donation. please give what you can.
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"Be advised: a public college administrator who violates clearly established law will not retain qualified immunity & can be held personally responsible for monetary damages for violating 1st Amendment rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. See Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982)
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PEN has since written me an email gaslighting me and saying that security didn't "touch" me.
So my chair just magically dragged itself outside the building?
Palestinian-American writer Randa Jarrar was forcibly removed from a PEN America event in Los Angeles for protesting the presence of Mayim Bialik.
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they send bombs that are meant to sink warships on poets.
they are afraid of palestinian writers. they are afraid of our power and our truth telling.
we are powerful and they know it.
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@natterlyk
@lukeoneil47
hey girl, you are settled on south african land, i'm a palestinian refugee tweeting this, don't you dare lecture me.
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Yuh-Jung Youn's energy is doing a tight five at the comedy club I love her!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i wanna be madly in love, kiss, hold hands, be kinky, travel, have picnics, dress up, make art together. i wanna do it all with one person who wants to do it all with me.
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What a i've learned so far from my time in Cairo working with evacuees, is that we need lots of funding, coordinating, and help. We need to get kids registered in schools, folks to get better medical care in hospitals, and the rest of people's families evacuated. 🧵
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(contd:) "[Uni Name] must immediately halt its investigation and clarify to the university community that your administration will not investigate faculty/students for lawfully expressing their views."
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@MarkRuffalo
Avoid hyperbole and restate facts: Human Rights Watch has recently found Israel guilty of crimes against humanity. Read the report yourselves
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The world is absolutely telling us this joke
This was hard to write. “Are we indeed all Palestinians?”
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Want to help? Shout at your reps. Share the
#SaveSheikhJarrah
hashtag. We don't want money. We want justice!!!
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fbi showed up at my door. been calling them fuckbois international ever since. anway, i'm ready to leave this cuntry
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i am aware she would never do this. Anyone who amasses millions of dollars doesn't give a shit about humanity
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today is the 8th anniversary of the night i told my ex i wanted a divorce. if you're on the fence about leaving a partner who doesn't meet your needs and has been taking you for granted, this is the sign you're looking for. Dump them.
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Myriam Gurba has asked what we would like to see come out of this groundswell of anger at the publishing industry.
I want every great woc writer I know, including myself, to get 7-figure bk deals with large publicity budgets behind them. I want American readers to get smarter.
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Sad about Lebanon. About Yemen. About Iraq. About Syria. About Palestine. About Egypt. About us.
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Hi all! Thanks for all the kind DMs, I am totally ok. What's not ok is the way
@PENamerica
& other art institutions condone genocide & pretend to be supportive of artists of color. We will not accept this nor will we work with them. Disrupting & resisting is our responsibility.
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actual footage of PEN kicking us OUTSIDE when we did an indoor protest. You're all lying sacks of feces.
American University has banned all indoor protest in a move PEN America's Kristen Shahverdian says will limit dialogue and clamp down on free expression:
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heres the thing: when a person supports genocide like bialik has, nothing else they do is "unrelated"
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there are one and a half MILLION people starving and trapped in Rafah, where they were ordered to go, and now they're being told they will be butchered there, because how do you evacuate an evacuation zone? This has to fucking stop!
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when someone like andy ogles says he thinks all palestinian children should be killed, he means it. Here's his 2021 xmas card, featuring his own kids
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Shame on anyone celebrating today while the oldest group of Christians in the world face extinction in Gaza
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i met with a gazan evacuee today and she said the day she heard about the sexual assaults in shifa hospital she was sure no one would allow Israhell to continue its genocide. she said she slept that night thinking she would wake up to news that it was all over.
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the only poem that matters right now is this one by Ibrahim Nasrallah.
"I died and lived. I lit myself on fire. I put myself out with my own ashes,
and nothing came of it."
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Eid mubarak to Palestinians and to all those who love and support us.
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someone give this story the same number of pages as fucking Bad Art Friend. Absolutely horrific.
A 39-year-old rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what authorities determined were serious flaws with the prosecution and concerns that the wrong man had been imprisoned.
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Please share, especially if you claim to love writers. Young writer Noor Aldeen Hajjaj has been killed by Israel.
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israhell wouldn't be able to destroy hospitals, libraries, mosques, archives, homes, universities, daycares, churches without the US
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anytime you feel helpless about what's happening in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, remember that you're not. We are powerful! We are many. Disrupt and dismantle wherever you are. Show up to actions. Plan disruptions with 3 of your friends. Liberation will take all of us ❤️🔥
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may every abuser quake in fear. may there be a full reckoning. may victims find peace.
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Yemen, Tigray, Cuba, Syria, Myanmar
Prayers full time, around the clock <3
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Watch this and send it to your Progressive-except-Palestine friends and family. This is shameful.
You won't see this on western media!
Israeli soldiers celebrate and cheer as they blow up a Palestinian house in Jerusalem today.
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My memoir is officially out today 💘 TIME magazine says you should read it
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hello, just a note that i do not identify as arab. i once did, but I'm decolonizing my brain. I'm palestinian. they called us arab because they never wanted to acknowledge Palestine.
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they're bombing libraries archives
bookstores universities schools, mosques homes full of poets, journalists, babies, teens, the elderly, the disabled, queers, mothers, grandmothers, fathers, great grandfathers they're pouring cement into wells arresting children burning trees
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Happy full moon! Also whenever you feel guilty or unproductive or are generally being mean to yourself remember what Gertrude Stein once said: "It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."
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Palestinians do not want you to organize big fancy fundraisers to spread awareness of genocide. Those events make you look good and do nothing for Palestinians. They want you to share their voices and
use your platform to speak truth to power.
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Six years ago today Ben Shapiro and Turning Point USA among others doxxed me and sent a mob of 90,000 people to get me fired from my university job. The subsequent 6 years have been filled with death threats and I've had to move several times. I kept my job, because fuck them.
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and thisssss is how it's done. we alllll have to show up. a new and better world isn't just gonna build itself. it needs us all to step the fuck up.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE ❤️🔥 Join us outside our encampment all night long. Bring a friend, blankets, and snacks!! Follow our telegram for updates:
#cu4palestine
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My forthcoming book of nonfiction just sold to a rad UK publisher. I'm very happy.
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I'm💲fundraising 💲to go to Cairo and help Palestinian refugees on the ground there. I speak Egyptian and want to be of use. I will be bringing hygiene kits, clothes, and other necessities. If you'd like to contribute, please venmo me randa-jarrar and put Cairo in the comment.
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Thread: April is Arab American heritage month, and at least six (!) books by Arab Americans will be released then. Here they are; please support West Asian and North African American writers!!!
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five years ago i started my memoir in the west tx desert in this $20 dress. yesterday i finished recording the audiobook for penguin random house in LA in the same dress. make your art and dont let anybody stop you.
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i am no longer willing to educate or convince people that palestinians are worthy of being alive. fuck anyone who doesn't care. this world is cruel and murderous, and we refuse to be erased. like what toni morrison taught: those who need us to be on our knees to feel tall, fuck u
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No lie: I am LIVID to see white authors including women get huge advances and 2nd and 3rd chances with presses when their books don’t change lives the way mine have. IDGAF if that’s conceited. As Remy Ma says, “I’m conceited; I got a reason.”
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These are a highly educated group of people, and many of them don't have their diplomas or transcripts bc their universities were bombed to dust. We need universities around the world to partner with them & grant them degrees and transcripts, or help them continue studies. And,
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My third husband has been located, please sir come talk to my father about my hand, I will make you tea
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I have news! This book is my heart. I’m excited for you all to read it. And I couldn’t have asked for a better editor than
@MeghaMaj
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I joined a queer gym for all bodies and they do online classes since gyms are a no no rn. I just took a yoga class. Me! I cannot stress how healing and life changing it is to receive instruction from another fat femme of color.
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it would be such a shame if this black friday began what would one day be known as the National Day of Shoplifting with hundreds of thousands of people calmly and methodically robbing big businesses by simply walking out the front door,
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i was just pulled out by my chair at a PEN event. Writers: PEN is lies
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last night i spent hours in a tent in anaheim with a hundred other palestinians breaking fast and reading poems and listening to oud and it was beautiful to remember that we exist and love each other
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🥳Happy birthday🥳 to Roxane, lounging here against a pyramid (probably the only earthly object that may come close to matching your majestic beauty + brilliance). Thank you for everything you do and everything you are. We love you
@rgay
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today i got royalties from my first book and also direct deposit from my onlyfans. guess which amount was bigger? one took 7 years and the other took 4 minutes
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a film i acted in is premiering at tribeca tomorrow and i'm excited and nervous and grateful and yay! palestinian egyptian family on screen 🥰
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we are seeing unprecedented levels of censorship. journalists are having their accounts shut down and editors are being fired. Palestinian journalists are being killed.
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i'm in trauma counseling and it's the best investment ive ever made. if you grew up in a household with complex trauma or have experienced traumatic events i highly recommend finding someone who can help you identify triggers and remap your brain so that you can care for yourself
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Single pals, especially women and nb folx: anytime you feel lonely at night remember this: you are free; free from lies, compromise, and a whole other person’s issues and traumas. Your grandmother would love this kind of life. You can make it to tomorrow. You are your other half.
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I am hoping for a larger conversation about white men stealing stories from people they pretend to want to help, while in private, they harm them in irreversible ways. I am hoping for literary world to honor and elevate OUR stories.
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isn't tiffany haddish a predator who trafficked a child recently? israhell is the perfect place for her
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We also need volunteers to teach children remotely, since schools in Egypt have proved difficult for students to register in. We need tech companies to donate thousands of laptops/tablets. By one estimate, there are 12,000 students right now without school.
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RAMY season 2 streams in like 3 days and I can’t wait for you all to see it, especially the episode I’m in 🙃
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Defund and abolish police. Dismantle everything. There are no other options. Anyone who doesn’t support these protesters without reservation is an apologist invested in & benefiting from white supremacy. If you care more about a building than a human life, congrats: you’re a cop
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Friends!!! What are your favorite essays by writers of color?
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Inside. A. Mosque. Call your reps please, our tax dollars support this bullshit
Israeli forces are throwing stun grenades and shooting rubber bullets at Palestinians inside Al Aqsa mosque, effectively trapping them inside. Dozens are wounded, but medics are not being allowed through to treat the injured.
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hello
i am grieving the genocide of my people
i will be unable to respond to any invitations at this time
peace
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Palestinian artists bring me joy. Thank you for this book
@summabis
and for the T
@HMoushabeck
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We have to help people in Gaza and prioritize their needs. And we must support the ones who get out, because often they are not in a better position than the one they escaped, and they have lost everything, most importantly their community.
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i love watching the bridge from you to me burn ❤️🔥
🧵A writer's published work should not be yanked from circulation because it sparks public outcry or sharp disagreement. At its best, literature is a bridge, connecting us across differences; writers help guide the rest of us across that bridge.
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It’s been a shit world for so long but my new book is on the indie next list and that brings me comfort. I wrote the book through death threats and awfulness, please help me celebrate it (and buy a copy?)
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@noname
@NyashaJunior
Thank you so much for being honest. And for sharing this now. Black Palestinian solidarity forever 💞
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Folks here are still dealing with an abyssmal amount of trauma, as well as medical injuries from the war, disabilities pre-dating the war, and the pain of being separated from loved ones. Also,
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My essay about domestic violence and survival and love now lives on Gay Mag and I am so proud ♥️
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I deleted the tweet because I’m exhausted and want to live a peaceful life. I hope the folks who know now will keep fighting. What he did to me was wrong and I hope he is held accountable.
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In Cairo today I distributed clothing, shoes, underwear for 8 families, and listened to a matriarch's stories. Her best friend disappeared in Gaza on wednesday and she can't stop thinking about her.
the reality is so much worse than what we see :(
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