5LL #348: Hunger, Silence, CUNY, Pride, Bukele
Hunger That Defeats Language
Husam Maarouf, ArabLit
Hunger in a genocide is more than physical deprivation. It is the dismantling of the self. A slow extinction of your will to live.
What Did You Do During the Genocide in Gaza?
Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian
When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?
‘The People That I Know in Gaza, They’re Starving’
Cat Zhang, The Cut
The CUNY strikers are pressuring the nation’s largest urban public university to divest from companies supporting the Israeli occupation, including American weapons manufacturers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
Queer Folks Mobilize for Palestine
Henry Hicks IV, In These Times
Queer organizers rallied against drag bans and continue to do the same for Palestine.
Marketing Authoritarianism
Dennis M. Hogan and Matthew Ellis, Jewish Currents
Mimicking his Salvadoran ally Nayib Bukele, Trump is using spectacles of disappearance to project a total power he does not yet possess.