![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Ramadan Day 14
Mar. 24th, 2024 11:39 pmSecond day of a successful dawn to sunset fast! Turns out pancakes are a fun and tolerable morning food for me. I did have to take a big nap afterwards to cope though. I am yet again being reminded how much I struggle with a solid bedtime routine. If anyone has a cheat code for that I'd appreciate you tossing it my way because I am so good at procrastinating sleep and also terrible at surviving on low sleep hours.
Also saw the Palestine quilt unfurled in NYC today with over 500 demonstrators present at the Met. And just wow. I almost cried looking at the photo of it on instagram. It reminded me immediately of the AIDS quilt (which there is a really wonderful documentary on called The Last One: Unfolding the AIDS Memorial Quilt, I watched it on Kanopy) which I was first introduced to in the ACT UP centered documentary, How to Survive a Plague. As someone who sews a little bit and knows a bit about the AIDS quilt history, the amount of community cooperation and care that has to go into a large display quilt is enormous. That's largely why this is landing with me. In fall of last year, I told one of my closest friends that I expected the public to go quiet on this before the new year and couldn't imagine not witnessing and sharing the updates coming out of Palestine every day because I could easily imagine people going silent on this. Seeing the amount of consistent community cooperation it would have taken to make and display that quilt really hit me. Being Arab in this country is truly such a mindfuck of an experience and we are, be default, treated as easy to overlook in our suffering. So the quilt really got to me in the best way. I love NYC so profoundly.
Was reading poetry by Fariha Roisin, a queer Muslim femme, and couldn't get over these stanzas:
Also saw the Palestine quilt unfurled in NYC today with over 500 demonstrators present at the Met. And just wow. I almost cried looking at the photo of it on instagram. It reminded me immediately of the AIDS quilt (which there is a really wonderful documentary on called The Last One: Unfolding the AIDS Memorial Quilt, I watched it on Kanopy) which I was first introduced to in the ACT UP centered documentary, How to Survive a Plague. As someone who sews a little bit and knows a bit about the AIDS quilt history, the amount of community cooperation and care that has to go into a large display quilt is enormous. That's largely why this is landing with me. In fall of last year, I told one of my closest friends that I expected the public to go quiet on this before the new year and couldn't imagine not witnessing and sharing the updates coming out of Palestine every day because I could easily imagine people going silent on this. Seeing the amount of consistent community cooperation it would have taken to make and display that quilt really hit me. Being Arab in this country is truly such a mindfuck of an experience and we are, be default, treated as easy to overlook in our suffering. So the quilt really got to me in the best way. I love NYC so profoundly.
Was reading poetry by Fariha Roisin, a queer Muslim femme, and couldn't get over these stanzas:
