Julia Kristeva: “The text is a practice that could be compared to political revolution: the one brings about in the subject what the other introduces into society.”
ZeeshanJaanam
@zeeshanpathan.bsky.social
Columbia University trained poet & translator. MFA @Columbia. Author of The Minister of Disturbances (@DiodeEditions, '20) Former Poetry Editor @pestemagazine
Americans are against this w4r. Americans want Healthcare, affordable and good schools, and representatives who do the work of democracy & not tyr4nny.
Far from the tyrannical kingdom the yellow bird without wings counted its mangled hours. Maybe soon under the weight of its own corruption a detestable throne would fall. The wind whispered all around into the blighted air and the peasants rejoiced, one and all.
Titles of paintings are not explanations, and paintings are not illustrations of titles. —René Magritte
Do not marvel at all at the faithlessness of the world, O you who are forever filled with wonder. —Mirzadeh Eshghi
Are you friends still using Bluesky? Should I start regular updates again? 💙
There is no sea after this sea. —Ghassan Zaqtan Palestinian poet 🇵🇸
"The day is ours, the sun is ours, the fire within our hearts is ours. That day we stand hand in hand—our laughter is ours. Yesterday is ours, tomorrow is ours, to love in burning passion is ours. The longing we carry in our eyes—heart upon heart—is ours." —Sezen Aksu 🇹🇷
Things are so ugly politically, so violent, so merciless, so frightening. I want to run towards poetry and song to escape. But I do think of those who cannot run anywhere. For whom there is no refuge.
Professor Robert Pape at University of Chicago talks to Amy Goodman at Democracy Now that the w4r has completely backfired against Rvmp leaving 20 percent of the world's oil supply in Iranian control effectively and another 11 percent in Russian control. youtu.be/ecjRTJ1YVeM?...
"The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power": U. of Chicago Professor Robert Pape
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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According to the annual report of the Varieties of Democracy Institute at Gothenburg University: "The United States is no longer a democracy and is sliding towards autocracy faster than Hungary..." Just take that in today.
Regardless of what your faith is or is not, this rings true today: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." —Gospel of Matthew 5:9
Beirut is under heavy @ttack as some ratchet up attempts to destroy the ceasefire(s) and continue w4rs.
Spain's PM is one of the only Western leaders who showed any moral courage or took any public risk at all to stop this insane war ON Ir@n.
CEASEFIRE DAY 1: peace will come when imperi@lism ends. when sovereignty is respected. when humanity is protected.
Solidarity to all the oppressed peoples. You are not alone.
Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, scholar of authoritarianism at NYU:
