Who are we?

nabil anani, "palestinian folklore," 2020, acrylic on canvas

If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer

Palestinian poet, writer, literature professor, and activist Dr. Refaat Alareer was killed on December 7th, 2023, in a targeted Israeli airstrike that also killed his brother, his sister, and four of her children.

Dr. Alareer was a beloved professor of literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza, where he taught since 2007.

This poem has been pinned to his twitter profile since November 1st, 2023.

Mary Oliver, “I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life (Ten)”, Red Bird

Sun Kissed

trista mateer/ sade andria zabala/ miranda july/ hozier/ neil hilborn/ ernest hemingway/ bon iver/ trista mateer 

— Gustav Klimt

Saturn from the Mt. Wilson Observatory. Populare Astronomie. 1922.

Internet Archive

Robert Mapplethorpe, from the Flowers book

Pintail Pursuit at Sunrise. Peter Markham Scott (1909-1989). Oil on canvas. Dated 1987.

Jenny Slate, An Interview with Jenny Slate

sebastiane (1976) dir. derek jarman

View of the St. Mark’s Column, in the background Santa Maria della Salute and A view of the Grand Canal with Santa Maria della Salute,Marco Grubas (Italian, 1839-1910)

Pluto in true color

“Paradoxical case of a pleurisy and pulmonary consolidation.” The nervous affections of the heart. 1905.

Internet Archive

Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), ‘Ice Heart’, “Fairytales” by Hans Christian Andersen, 1924 Source

Vase of Flowers, (detail) Charles Warren Eaton Oil on tin