To Asim—and to anyone else insisting Palestinians must perform their annihilation in borrowed grief:
Here https://open.substack.com/pub/genospectra/p/naming-without-permission?r=3lzdaf&utm_medium=ios
“You are asking the erased to speak through the vocabulary of those who have always refused to hear them.”
Exactly this.
genocide is not a metaphor; its a mechanism..
what israel is doing is settler-colonialism.
its intentional eradication .
lets call it ibāda.
i will not abide by eurocentric metaphors/analogies.
I agree. Let’s call “ibāda”
It sums it all.
I have been thinking of the word. It doesn’t need to be in any language but ours. Thanks you!
Shukran
🙏🏻
Most excellent
Here https://open.substack.com/pub/genospectra/p/naming-without-permission?r=3lzdaf&utm_medium=ios
“You are asking the erased to speak through the vocabulary of those who have always refused to hear them.”
Exactly this.
genocide is not a metaphor; its a mechanism..
what israel is doing is settler-colonialism.
its intentional eradication .
lets call it ibāda.
i will not abide by eurocentric metaphors/analogies.
I agree. Let’s call “ibāda”
It sums it all.
I have been thinking of the word. It doesn’t need to be in any language but ours. Thanks you!
Shukran
🙏🏻
Most excellent