“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?

Today, we’re sitting with a non-fiction piece by our commissioned author for Rayya Liebich, upcoming in Room 48.3 Rest/Unrest.


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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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

I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.

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In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.

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