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SUMMARY:Poetry as Resistance: Fargo Tbakhi x Ahmad Almallah
DESCRIPTION:Book launch and poetry reading\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of poetry\, conversation\, and community as Fargo Nissim Tbakhi and Ahmad Almallah read from their newly released collections TERROR COUNTER and Wrong Winds. Both works grapple with Palestinian life\, memory\, and resistance through formally inventive and urgent poetics. All ticket and book sales goes to supporting students from Gaza. Please consider sliding donation for food available that will all go towards the fundraiser. \n\n\nAhmad Almallah grew up in Palestine and currently lives in Philadelphia. His newest poetry collection\, Wrong Winds\, is out with Fonograf Editions (2025). His other collections include Border Wisdom (Winter Editions 2023) and Bitter English (Chicago 2019). He is an artist in residence in English and Creative Writing at UPenn. His poems appeared in Poetry\, SAND\, APR\, MQR\, Icarus among others. Some of his honors include: a fellowship and residency at Millay Arts\, the Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize and the Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. \n\n\nWrong Winds (Ahmad Almallah) \nWhen genocide is the question\, can the answer be anything but wrong? In Wrong Winds\, written during the first months of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza\, Palestinian-American poet Ahmad Almallah converses with the screams echoing throughout the West. Traversing European cities\, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian\, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. Through a continuous unsettling of words and places\, considering the broken voices of Western poetry (Eliot\, Lorca\, and Celan\, among others)\, the poems in Wrong Winds discover the world again and form an impossible dialogue with the dead and dying. \nPraise: \n“Wrong Winds is an epitome of poetic labor: a book that teaches the awesome responsibility of being fully human. Ahmad Almallah imagines a language for survival on a planet where people and morality are routinely and casually displaced\, and offers pathways for us to come to terms with the world we are creating: a place that contains utmost beauty and unutterable hurt. Long after Palestine is free\, these urgent poems will remain touchstones of what counters the degradation of the human spirit.” —Anna Badkhen \n \n\n\nFargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist. \nTERROR COUNTER (Fargo Tbakhi) \nTERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages—interpersonal\, legal\, literary\, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians. Moving through sections of varying experimentalism\, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic\, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi here attempts to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood. The voices in this collection are driven by despair\, futility\, utopia\, vulnerability and the spirit of a collective liberation; they move in search of a lyrical voice which can inhabit both the paranoid preservationist mode that facilitates Palestinian survival\, and the imaginative possibilities that might make possible Palestinian life. TERROR COUNTER asks: where and how might a Palestinian subject escape the public consumption of American letters? And\, ultimately\, how can we continue to love each other amidst the endless terror of the colonial world? \nPraise: \n“In this debut collection electric with grief\, rage\, and love\, Tbakhi enacts the liberatory possibilities of a language reclaimed. This book will crack your heart open. Let it\, let the light come pouring in.” —Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, author of Something About Living
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/poetry-as-resistance-fargo-tbakhi-x-ahmad-almallah/
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SUMMARY:Community Yoga Class for Queer and Trans People of Color
DESCRIPTION:Start or deepen your yoga practice in community with other queer and trans people of color! Classes include both movement and meditation.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-yoga-class-for-queer-and-trans-people-of-color-4/
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SUMMARY:Community Yoga Class for Queer and Trans People of Color
DESCRIPTION:Start or deepen your yoga practice in community with other queer and trans people of color! Classes include both movement and meditation.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-yoga-class-for-queer-and-trans-people-of-color-3/
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SUMMARY:Community Yoga Class for Queer and Trans People of Color
DESCRIPTION:Start or deepen your yoga practice in community with other queer and trans people of color! Classes include both movement and meditation.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-yoga-class-for-queer-and-trans-people-of-color-2/
LOCATION:THE CEDAR WORKS COMMUNITY CENTER\, 4919 Pentridge Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Community Yoga Class for Queer and Trans People of Color
DESCRIPTION:Start or deepen your yoga practice in community with other queer and trans people of color! Classes include both movement and meditation.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-yoga-class-for-queer-and-trans-people-of-color/
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SUMMARY:Untold Palestine: Loss and Hope
DESCRIPTION:A multi-sensory experience of a pop-up exhibit of Gazan photographers\, Artist Conversation\, and Reading Circle\n\n\nMohamed Badarne\, from Untold Palestine\, is visiting Philadelphia for a one-night pop-up photography exhibition (all works for sale!). The evening will include Mohamed in conversation with La La Lil Jidar photographer\, Aisha Mershani\, and a Reading Circle of excerpts from Passages Through Genocide. \n\n\nPhoto credits: \nPhoto 1: Samar Abo Elouf \nPhoto 2: Hosam Salem \nPhoto 3: Fatima Shabir \n\n\nUntold Palestine (https://untoldpalestine.com/en/ IG: @untoldpalestine) is a social media platform launched in 2020. The goal of the project is to tell stories of the everyday lives of Palestinians\, with their small and big achievements and dreams\, as a counter-narrative to the stereotypical image of a faceless mass or iconic figures defined by violence and suffering. During the last 10 months\, Untold Palestine has been organizing exhibitions all around the world for Gazans photographers titled “Gaza Habibti” in the United States\, Germany\, Spain\, and Jordan as part of the Image festival. \n\n\nPassages Through Genocide is a collection of texts from Palestinian writers confronting the genocide in Gaza to lift up their words by sharing\, printing\, publishing  and distributing these texts by all possible means in support of Palestinian liberation. \n\n\nAisha Mershani(they/them) was born in Las Vegas\, Nevada to an American Jewish mother and a Moroccan Muslim father. Mershani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Redlands in California\, and a Master’s and a Ph.D. degree from the UNESCO program in Peace\, Development Studies\, and Conflict Transformation at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló de la Plana\, Spain. From 2003-2022 Mershani focused their subject on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Aisha has photographed military checkpoints\, popular demonstrations\, house demolitions\, destroyed villages\, and the daily lives of Palestinians living under the violence of the Israeli occupation. Mershani’s photographs have been in multiple publications\, as well as many internet news sites over the years to further the awareness of the ongoing situation on the ground in Palestine. Aisha is also one of the artists in the reference book\, “Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists”. Aisha Mershani is currently an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Gettysburg College and combines their scholarly work with their media activism. \n\n\nLa La Lil Jidar is a collective of artists dedicated to arts and community experiences rooted in understanding Palestine through the photography of Aisha Mershani.
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