Swirly313

An autistic bisexual geek

A writer and geek whose interests cycle around animation, comics, and video games.

Icon art by Stina Rudebjer

Header image from "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!" (2020)



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from @/discoursekhala:

"'The Prison As a Text', an essay written by Palestinian political prisoner Layan Kayed, was translated into English by [Roba Alsalibi] for [Farhaana Arefin] & I[Dr Abeera Khan]'s 'Writing Against Abandonment' edited issue. The text is free to download till the end of June"

"Layan Kayed is a 26 year old Masters student at Birzeit University, incarcerated multiple times by the Occupation for her leftist student activism. Her essay reflects on incarcerated time and the act of prison writing through the everyday of Palestinian women prisoners."

"Kayed's text, in the translator's words, 'destabilises the dichotomy of humanisation versus heroism' often thrust on political prisoners. Her writing is as sharp as it is moving."

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