Healing becomes less mysterious when you realize the body is not a machine asking for efficiency but an ecosystem asking for a relationship.
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini
@karimwafa.bsky.social
indigenous writer. historian. lecturer & poet. phd in african american history. i write about culture, identity, empire and books. author of: child of a stolen homeland for more: https://linktr.ee/karimwafa
If your politics require children to die quietly overseas so stock prices stay calm, your politics are garbage.
August will be good to us. Let it be filled with not just love and joy, but also healing and rest. May this month offer us so much of what we need. May it bring the world closer to freedom and justice. May goodness prevail. May we heal and grow. May we find everything we need.
I went to the mall today. Did I need to buy anything? No. Did I leave with bags full of books and notebooks? You bet. Welcome to the world of a full-time writer and reader.
The system wants you overstimulated, under-rested, anxious and isolated. That is why slowing down and resting is seen as such a threat, because capitalism thrives on keeping you on the move and drained.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but never in human history have those who burned books been the good guys.
When one of us resists, it strengthens every single one of us. A protest in Haiti echoes in Palestine. A chant in Sudan flows to Ferguson. Liberation has never been local. It has always been a heartbeat all oppressed people share. We don’t have to speak the same language to fight the same empire.
Celebrating the 1.5 year anniversary of the release of my debut poetry collection. Thank you to all the wonderful people that have bought, read, and supported. ❤️🩹
Celebrating the 1.5 year anniversary of the release of my debut poetry collection. Thank you to all the wonderful people that have bought, read, and supported. ❤️🩹
America frequently cherry-picks its history to erase its internal contradictions. It celebrates diversity in the media while funding the global and domestic policing of Black and Brown communities. Hypocrisy is at the root of American statehood.
They say they hate “wokeness,” but what they really hate is empathy. Because once you start caring about other people’s experiences, inequalities become harder to ignore, and privilege becomes harder to defend.
A gentle reminder: if you’ve read my book and it meant something to you, I’d be so grateful if you shared your thoughts in a review on Goodreads or Amazon. Reviews help other readers find my work and mean so much to us writers. ❤️🩹🙏🏽 Thank you for being here in my little corner of the writing world.
Privilege is learning about your people in textbooks, while mine are nothing but footnotes.
Read more books. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
A society that mocks its farmers and worships billionaires has already lost its mind because why are you worshipping the hands that poison you and ignoring the ones that feed you?
The measure of our humanity is not found in how fiercely we defend those who resemble or share the same beliefs as us, but in whether we can still recognize ourselves in the suffering of distant and far-away strangers.
The most brutal part of self-growth is realizing how many people benefited from the version of you that stayed small.
AYEEEE bye bye Messi!!!!! Viva España ❤️❤️❤️🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🔥🔥🔥
The Argentinian team should consider switching to wrestling.
This ain’t the World Cup no more. They turned it into the Superbowl. I mean seriously?
The earth is not asking you to optimize yourself or become more productive. That is the least of its concerns. It is simply asking you to remember that you belong here because you are connected to the land and spirit of cosmic creation.
The problem with a hyper-individualistic society is that it will always create lonely people and then label it ‘independence’ when it knows deep inside that people are made to thrive inside a healthy community surrounded by love.