I saw a simple piece of graffiti in Palestine over a decade ago.
It’s a quote that has stuck with me ever since.
Three years into a life-streamed genocide, I need to change that quote a bit.
This post is a crossover with The Exploding Head, my (more) political project.
As you, too, might be reflecting on the third anniversary of the genocide in Gaza, I recorded a message for you that is not any political analysis.
It is not even an attempt to provide a summary of the horrors of the extermination of life in Gaza.
“I’m not talking because every time I talk, blood comes out of my mouth and makes my dress dirty, and I don’t want my mom to have to clean it.”
– last recorded words of Hind Rajab
(How can one forget such horrors? How can one forget the mass murder of children – under our watch?)
Instead, my episode is about how we can frame these past years. It’s a reminder of what we are called to do and what the price of not responding to that call is
Now that we have seen, we are responsible.
Justina
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