The Joy of You

Donate to Gaza

Mutual Aid

Call to Prayer: A Multifaith Prayer Circle (monthly, online)
A gathering to grieve, pray, connect, and resource ourselves in our ongoing commitment to a free Palestine, collective liberation, and the protection, thriving, and belonging of all beings everywhere.
With: 

@lubna.masarwa
@adriennemareebrown 

@heartofearth_ 

@dorimidnight
@boundlesswarrior
@sharethelight333
@oholyshift
@sarahofmagdalene
@madre.jaguar

The Rammun Foundation, providing urgent aid to Gaza.
The Sameer Project, providing tents, water, and food in Gaza.
Fund A Kitchen in Gaza, a Humanti Project site collating donation links to kitchens on the ground in Gaza.

GoFundMe’s:
• Ahmed’s Family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/northern-gaza-family-needs-our-support-to-survive

Library of Liberation

books I’ve read which have given me inspiration, hope, and tools for liberation

“Okay, sure, great that you’ve read so many books. How many people have you taught to read?” — an Indigenous creator who was on my IG timeline and the video was lost, but the message continues to resonate with me. I may be a prolific (likely hyperlexic) reader, but the true measure of my success isn’t about how many pages, or how fast… But what I do with the knowledge, and whether my actions support the lives of my descendants in seven generations.

  • Daybreak in Gaza (Mahmoud Muna & Matthew Teller)
  • Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
  • Teaching to Transgress (bell hooks)
  • Former Stripper, Part Time Visionary (ismatu gwendolyn)
  • Mutual Aid (Dean Spade)
  • Sister, Outsider (Audre Lorde)
  • Emergent Strategy (adrienne maree brown)
  • Seasons of a Magical Life (H Byron Ballard)
  • The Wind is My Mother (Bear Heart with Molly Larkin)
  • Rise, Sister, Rise (Rebecca Campbell)
  • Women Who Run With the Wolves (Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés)
  • The Artist’s Way (Julia Cameron)
  • The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth (Andreas Malm)
  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Andreas Malm)
  • The Parables of the Sower and the Talents (Octavia E Butler)
  • You Were Born For This (Chani Nicholas)
  • Polysecure (Jessica Fern)
  • On Connection (Kae Tempest)
  • Doppelganger (Naomi Klein)
  • Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Cat Bohannon)

(more to follow!)