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We continue to honour and stand alongside the Palestinian people, who resist the ongoing colonization of their lands, apartheid, and genocide perpetuated by “Israel”. As we sit with the ongoing violences in which we are all inextricably implicated, we are sitting with the poem “If I Must Starve,” by Nour Abdel Latif, shared to her […]
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