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I'm shivering, this was incredible

when calamity strikes and puts normal life under strain, feelings that have been stifled by everyday evasion can break free and make it easy to talk where before it felt impossible I wondered if this was always happening in Palestine, where calamity was always so close Or whether it was different for those who, living here, endured it without respite, for whom constant calamity was itself the condition of normal life

Public space hewn from the rubble of public spaces.

I hate the word miscarriage. I hate the suggestion of responsibility, of carrying wrongly, like a miscarriage of justice

Looking back I wonder if boredom was not in some way a defence, if on a certain level I found it more stressful and confusing than I was conscious of, and my distraction protected me, keeping my mind clean from the violence.

‘He says, I didn’t realise you were Palestinian, and I say, Is everything okay with you? And he doesn’t say anything, he just looks at me like this, like, that’s a stupid question. Sort of angry, sort of wounded.

This part hits even harder after the presentation of Maya Wind