5LL #305: Severance, Prisoners, Bombs, Academia, June Jordan
On Severance: Fragments on the Time of Inqisām
Liron Mor, Critical Inquiry
This is the time of inqisām. A time of severance, of breaking apart, of the utter destruction of Gaza, the dissolution of its inhabitants, its communities, and its infrastructures, of lives and everything that sustains them, of the very habitability of the land.
Like a Bag Trying to Empty
Kaleem Hawa, Parapraxis
Many of Palestine’s prisoners have taken on the intellectual project of representing prison.
Israel’s Bombs Will Go On Killing Gazans Long Into the Future
Mary Turfah, The Nation
Even when the war is technically declared over, thousands and thousands of unexploded munitions will remain, waiting for their chance to do harm.
Overwriting Palestine
Ussama Makdisi, New Left Review
The Western world’s last settler-colonial regime, committed to an ideology born in nineteenth-century Europe, remains remarkably adept at diffusing a story that erases Palestinian humanity, including in the realm of higher education.
Moving Towards Life
Marina Magloire, Los Angeles Review of Books
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.