“HOW TO F/HOLD ON TO YOUR HUMANITY” by Rayya Liebich (Room 48.3 Rest/Unrest Sneak Peek)

Rayya Liebich

In a world shaped by profound injustice, how do we create amidst unrest while reclaiming rest that moves us toward justice?

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HOW TO F/HOLD ON TO YOUR HUMANITY
by Rayya Liebich

 


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Rayya Liebich (she/her) is a poet and memoirist of Lebanese and Polish descent. She is the author of the award-winning chapbook Tell Me Everything, the poetry collection Min Hayati (Inanna Publications) and a forthcoming hybrid memoir entitled Milk Teeth (Pownal Street Press). Recently, she has channeled her rage and grief over the horrors in Palestine into three chapbooks Khalas/Enough, Litany of Words I Cannot Read and Word Games for Times of Genocide. She believes in the power of words to change minds and hearts and in the responsibility of artists to be truth-tellers.

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ROOM 49.3 NO CANADA

In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?

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Cover image for Room Magazine Issue 49.2, Science. Art by Candace Cosentino of an old-fashioned computer monitor with a bounty of dandelions growing from it.

ROOM 49.2 Science

Welcome to the Science issue of Room Magazine, where we privilege questions: questions about how to construct better worlds; questions about how to destroy hyper-capitalistic, necropolitical systems; questions that beget questions and new questions.

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