Dear friends, the Warp & Weft audio archive came together as a way to connect people from across the world during a global pandemic which caused untold loss and grief. It is an ongoing project that allows diverse people (separated by arbitrary yet brutal political borders) to share their stories and feel a sense of collective power.
Today we launch the next phase of this project. In the midst of the gruesome genocide we are witnessing in Gaza, people from around the world are welcome to join us in reading, holding up, and sharing the voices and stories of Palestinian writers, poets, and activists. This is an open archive, so contact us if you would like to contribute a reading and pls follow us @WarpAndWeftArchive
We start with Fatima Mohammadi (Kansas City, Missouri) reading Fadwa Tuqan (1917-2003), a Palestinian poet and memoirist known for her representations of resistance to Israeli occupation in contemporary Arab poetry. Fatima began with: “I acknowledge that I occupy the land belonging to the great Lakota, Nakota and Dakota, Kaw and Kickapoo nations, in a country built by the labor of enslaved and disenfranchised people.”
Listen to EXISTENCE by Fadwa Tuqan on Instagram @warpandweftarchive