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ALT Text: RAWIFest 2025 presenter applications now open! Deadline: January 31, 2025 Houston October 10-12 http://bit.ly/3ZugrZk Image: Hala Alyan on a projector with festival participants seated at tables with craft materials.
ALT The event organizers would like to acknowledge that we are gathering during a time of struggle and violence against many peoples. The Palestinian people continue to be brutalized by the decades long, American funded genocide and colonial violence of Israeli apartheid. We also stand in solidarity with victims of genocide in Sudan and Congo, and with the Indigenous peoples on whose ancestral homelands this conference is being held, including the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash tribes.
ALT We stand firmly against anti-Blackness and recognize that police violence and all white supremacist violence must be named and opposed. We stand with immigrants, against whom the current federal administration is carrying out horrifying acts of violence, imprisonment, and erasure. These forms of violence, along with transphobic violence being legislated across the United States endanger the lives of trans, queer, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people. Therefore, as we begin our event, we wish to underscore that none of us are free until all of us are free, and that all anti-racist, liberationist, and decolonial struggles are intertwined.
ALT The event organizers would like to acknowledge that we are gathering during a time of struggle and violence against many peoples. The Palestinian people continue to be brutalized by the decades long, American funded genocide and colonial violence of Israeli apartheid. We also stand in solidarity with victims of genocide in Sudan and Congo, and with the Indigenous peoples on whose ancestral homelands this conference is being held, including the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash tribes.
ALT We stand firmly against anti-Blackness and recognize that police violence and all white supremacist violence must be named and opposed. We stand with immigrants, against whom the current federal administration is carrying out horrifying acts of violence, imprisonment, and erasure. These forms of violence, along with transphobic violence being legislated across the United States endanger the lives of trans, queer, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people. Therefore, as we begin our event, we wish to underscore that none of us are free until all of us are free, and that all anti-racist, liberationist, and decolonial struggles are intertwined.
ALT Text reads: "Join us for a book discussion event! One Book, One Many Communities" in a speech bubble over an illustration of six people of different ethnicities and ages seated in a circle, reading and talking together. They are overlaid on the branches of a green tree in the background. Also featured is the cover image of They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri, with an illustration of Ahed Tamimi, a young woman with curly hair wearing a keffiyeh, on a teal background.
ALT Text reads: "Announcement! The 2025 title for Librarians and Archivists with Palestine’s international reading campaign, “One Book, Many Communities,” is They Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri. Small icon of a book outlined in yellow against a pale green background.
ALT Text reads: "About the Campaign: This project draws inspiration from the“one book, one town” idea, wherein people in local communities come together to read and discuss a common book. Librarians and Archivists with Palestine invites participants to organize gatherings to read They Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri. Illustration of three people of different ethnicities and ages talking together and holding books.
ALT Text reads: "Please join us! Host a discussion group in March or April to be connected to readers across the globe who will be reading and discussing this book at the same time. See our 2025 toolkit and resource guide for tips on hosting your event, and let us know what you’re planning! We'll share public events on our website and social media. Contact us: Please email us at [email protected] for all One Book-related questions and information.
ALT Text: RAWIFest 2025 presenter applications now open! Deadline: January 31, 2025 Houston October 10-12 http://bit.ly/3ZugrZk Image: Hala Alyan on a projector with festival participants seated at tables with craft materials.
ALT Text: RAWIFest 2025 presenter applications now open! Deadline: January 31, 2025 Houston October 10-12 http://bit.ly/3ZugrZk Image: Hala Alyan on a projector with festival participants seated at tables with craft materials.
ALT WRITERS - 7 THEMED CALLS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEME: BAD SCIENCE Mag: Blink-Ink THEME: TRIBUTE TO FOOD POEMS Mag: Rattle THEME: MYTH & METAPHOR Mag: Cosmic Daffodil Journal THEME: ELLIPTICAL LOVE Mag: Write or Die Magazine THEME: QUEER ECOLOGY Mag: Fruitslice THEME: URBAN NATURE - LOS ANGELES Mag: Reforestation Magazine THEME: CHAOS Mag: Viridine Literary
ALT 2025 FICTION CONTEST / JUDGED BY JANIKA OZA / 1st PRIZE: $1000 + publication in Room 2nd PRIZE: $250 + publication in Room 3rd PRIZE: $100 + publication on Room‘s website / submit by Mar 8 / photo of Janika Oza by Yi Shi