TIME
Time. It truly is crazy. Time passes in the blink of an eye as families gather, children play, communities indulge in frivolous activities and delicious food. Yet some – for almost two years – have been deprived of those very special moments. Deprived of basic human rights. Time, it truly is crazy. Days turned into […]
Continue ReadingIntergenerational: A personalised story of Palestinian diaspora
25th of March, 2025. It was a Tuesday morning, I was preparing to log onto my zoom lecture, I heard a ding. I checked my phone to see a text message. “Uncle Ismail was at Nasser hospital when they bombed it” It was from my mother. My heart stopped. I couldn’t breathe. I started sobbing. […]
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National student referendum to condemn the Labor government
In two months, the genocide in Gaza will mark its two-year anniversary. Two years of schools, hospitals, shelters and breadlines being bombed. Two years of starvation and displacement. Two years of Gaza being razed. Israel has shown no signs of stopping, with Netanyahu intending to totally occupy the Gaza Strip. Thanks to the complicity of […]
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Israel and Pinkwashing
If you’re queer or LGBTQIA+ and pro-Palestinian, chances are you’ve been hit with the phrase ‘you’d be killed for being gay in Palestine’ or something similar. This is an example of pinkwashing. According to DecolonizePalestine, Pinkwashing ‘refers to when a state or organization appeals to LGBTQ+ rights in order to deflect attention from its harmful […]
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Lit Corner: Books on Palestine
Erasing Palestine – Rebecca Ruth Gould (2023) [Non-fiction] ‘Our silence is complicity. This complicity also silences Palestinians, keeping their experiences hidden from public view.’ Rebecca Ruth Gould’s Erasing Palestine is a well-researched exploration of free speech and the struggle for Palestinian freedom. Not only does it describe Gould’s experience in being accused of antisemitism for […]
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POEM: Family Troubles
He came and left a rot inside her womb. She lay there naked curled around her blight that rotted till her famine would consume the ridges dug inside her skin that night. He told her he would build them both a home: A kitchen with a cross above the door. Then turned the bedroom to […]
Continue ReadingPOEM: Warnings from the Sky
‘ Burned leaf on the rubble cries EVACU language disintegrating Warnings from the Sky’ is a Senryu written in response to an image I saw of the remnants of an evacuation leaflet dropped by Isreal in Gaza. There was nowhere to evacuate to. The leaflet was torn by bombs from the very people that sent […]
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POEM: Found in my notes app from 11PM 31/07/2025
The following is an excerpt of a real journal entry I wrote in July, edited for publication and privacy. It is my attempt to word unspeakable violence, to mould the visceral with a vocabulary built for logic and softness. It is reflection, story, prose poetry, word vomit. I doomscrolled through videos of Gaza tonight and […]
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5TH Of AUGUST 2025 RALLY SPEECH
Asalam Alaikum everyone, may peace be upon you all today. My name is Shahzaib Farhan. I’m a member of BDS Youth Meanjin, and I stand here today as a student, a witness, and a human being grieving a genocide. Since October 2023, we’ve watched Israel’s colonial legacy subject Palestinian’s to an active genocide, a project […]
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POEM: I Mourn for Palestine
I mourn for Palestine A land of peace and olive trees A land that has seen nothing but suffering for 75 years A land that welcomed everyone with open arms, only for their people to be murdered by ruthless bombs They steal our lands and steal our farms and swear it is their birthright Then […]
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